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CLEP Humanities All In One

Subjects : clep, humanities
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






2. Pre-Socrates






3. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric

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4. Mannerism painter






5. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






6. Eight-foot line






7. Wrote Rivals






8. Famous French impressionist composer






9. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






10. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral






11. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






12. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






13. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






14. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






15. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.






16. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo






17. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






18. Goddess of Wisdom






19. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






20. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash






21. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.






22. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.






23. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






24. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






25. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain






26. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'






27. French 20th century architect






28. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






29. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women






30. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths






31. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.






32. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas






33. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






34. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






35. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






36. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






37. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






38. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses

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39. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe






40. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr






41. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back






42. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






43. Famous French impressionist composer






44. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?






45. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.






46. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting






47. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey






48. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'






49. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'






50. Wrote operas