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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
Marc Chagall
Flying buttresses
Vincent van Gogh
2. Considered to have founded modern European literature; perfected rhyme in threes - Divine Comedy
barbara hepworth
Dante Aligheri
Andrew Wyeth
The Parthenon
3. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Andrew Wyeth
John Locke
Noh Theatre
Jane Austen
4. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Rembrandt
Jean Fragonard
Hector Berlioz
E.E. Cummings
5. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Victor Hugo
aside
Arthur Miller
Ernest Hemingway
6. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Tempura
Peter Paul Rubens
Mark Twain
Theme
7. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Samuel Beckett
Impressionistic Art came before
Serialism
Sitar
8. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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9. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Gilbert and Sullivan
Salvador Dali
mannerism
Honore de Balzac
10. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
Church of San Vitale
George Sand
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Mozart and Richard Strauss
11. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Blank Verse
minuetto
Mark Twain
Othello
12. The works of ancient Greece and Rome; Homer - Sophocles - and Aeschylus. Major philosophers included Socrates - Plato - and Aristotle. Aristotle's Poetics described the art of tragedy; Socrates set down the foundation for a humanist philosophy later
Mark Twain
Classical Period
Whole Tone Scale
Bayeux tapestry
13. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Eugene O'Neil
Mark Twain
oratorio
Mary McCarthy
14. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
ballet
Georgia O'Keeffe
T.S. Eliot
Penny Marshall
15. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
hagia sophia
Lorraine Hansberry
Romanesque Style
16. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Greek Doric
allegro
Mannerism
Edvard Greig
17. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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18. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
George Sand
John Locke
T.S. Eliot
Guggenheim Museum
19. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Mary Shelley
ballet
aside
Tragic figure
20. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Jane Austen
Monet
Bayeux tapestry
Renoir
21. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
michelangelo
Atomism
Eisenstein
Tragic Playwrights
22. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Heraclitus
Henrik Ibsen
James Joyce
Stravinsky
23. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Augustine Age
Ballet
presto
Alexander Dumas
24. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
Pablo Picasso
The Parthenon
Christopher Wren
Alliteration
25. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Hexameter
Da Vinci
Beethoven & Wagner
Baroque Period
26. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
Jonathan Swift
Pythagoras
Plato
A long syllable
27. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Jean Fragonard
Thomas Edison
Mannerism
Joseph Conrad
28. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
Claude Monet
Mies van der Rohe
The Pigeon House
Peter Paul Rubens
29. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
William Shakespeare
Obelisk
Pearl Buck
The Panthenon
30. Goddess of Agriculture
Stephen Crane
Demeter/Ceres
Arthur Miller
presto
31. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Serge Diaghilev
Thomas Gainsborough
Johannes Brahms
32. Fast
Arthur Miller
Zeno
presto
Fauvism
33. The Color Purple
Herman Melville
henry moore
Cervantes
Alice Walker
34. God of love and beauty
Jonathan Swift
Issac Asimov
Pearl Buck
Aphrodite/Venus
35. Important Russian composer whose works are noted for their expressive melodies '1812 Overture' and 'The Nutcracker'
Monet
Stoicism
Tchaikovsky
sculpture
36. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Phoebus/Apollo
Bayeux tapestry
E.E. Cummings
Cimabue
37. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
mannerism
William Wordsworth
Alexander Dumas
Verdi and Puccini
38. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her
Minimalist Music
Merchant of Venice
Aside
Monet
39. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
American Indian Rugs
Othello
French Romantic painter
Botticelli
40. Famous artists during this time: Leonardo da Vinci - Rafael - and Michaelangelo - From 1490 to 1520 - High Renaissance style was composed of order - grace - and harmony - with perfectly proportioned subjects.
Mary Shelley
High Renaissance
Othello
Immanuel Kant
41. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mary Shelley
Rhymed Verse
Al Jolson
Mies van der Rohe
42. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Jean Fragonard
Serialism
Rembrandt
sitar
43. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
Vermeer
Eugene O'Neil
Meter
44. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Bronte Sisters
New Orleans
Francois Rabelais
Richard Sheridan
45. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Eugene O'Neil
Lillian Gish
Joseph Conrad
Jules Verne
46. Rebirth
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
renaissance
George Sand
47. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
bust
Geoffrey Chaucer
Roman Basilica
Degas
48. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Stoicism
Thomas Gainsborough
Libretto
Rhymed Verse
49. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
gothic age architecture
Victor Hugo
Ares/Mars
Stephen Crane
50. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Renoir
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Remington
Salvador Dali
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