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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. School of nonsense and anti-art
dada school
Georgia O'Keeffe
Corinthian
Gilbert and Sullivan
2. Georges Pierre Seurat
Seurat
Free Verse
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
3. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Denouement
Christopher Wren
Atomism
Rembrandt
4. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
fresco
bust
Donatello
Andrew Wyeth
5. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.
Trimeter
Ionic
Raphael
Samuel Beckett
6. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Foot
Doric
Trompe l'oeil
Johannes Brahms
7. Wrote Rivals
Maia/Fauna
michelangelo
Mary Wollstonecraft
Richard Sheridan
8. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Lorraine Hansberry
Stephen Crane
Stephen Foster
Edmund Spenser
9. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Francois Rabelais
Joseph Conrad
Dimeter
Lionel Hampton
10. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
George Sand
King Lear
Versailles
Augustine Age
11. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Pigeon House
Renaissance Art
Alexander Dumas
Ballet
12. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
Mannerism
Andrew Wyeth
Benjamin Franklin
13. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Verdi and Puccini
Dactylic
chalice
Cimabue
14. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Antonio Gaudi
Scott Joplin
Guggenheim Museum
allegro
15. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Parthenon
Rembrandt
constantin brancusi
16. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Onomatopoeia
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Theme
17. A dance
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Corinthian
minuetto
Tragic figure
18. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Aristotle
aside
tempura
Free Verse
19. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Christopher Marlowe
Imagery
James Boswell
Blank Verse
20. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
Merchant of Venice
Mary Shelley
Chloris/Flora
Heraclitus
21. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Langston Hughes
Hades/Pluto
Honore de Balzac
Donatello
22. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Bayeux tapestry
James Joyce
Niccolo Machiavelli
Pavane and the Polonaise
23. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Picasso
Post Impressionism
Chopin
Degas
24. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Scott Joplin
Geoffrey Chaucer
Penny Marshall
Zeus/Jupiter
25. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Claude Monet
Picasso
Plato
26. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
T.S. Eliot
Mies van der Rohe
Christopher Marlowe
Victor Hugo
27. Penned the famous phrase 'I think - therefore I am.' - Perhaps better known for his contributions to geometry than philosophy (the Cartesian plane is named after him) - Descartes is actually considered the founder of modern rationalism.
Rene Descartes
Ray Bradbury
John Locke
F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. Spanish surrealist painter
Remington
Gouche
Joan Miro
Renoir
29. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Bernini
madrigal
Donatello
Modern Period
30. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Serge Diaghilev
Pearl Buck
Leo Tolstoy
mannerism
31. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Hestia/Vesta
Thales
Rembrandt
Christopher Marlowe
32. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Mathew Brady
Simile
William Blake
Remington
33. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
minuetto
Cerros
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Aubrey Beardsley
34. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Tchaikovsky
Manichaeism
Edmund Spenser
Plato
35. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Andrew Wyeth
Aristotle
Remington
Aphrodite/Venus
36. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
T.S. Eliot
Surrealism
Joseph Conrad
37. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
oratorio
38. Leucippus and Democritus
Hamlet
Francois Rabelais
Donatello
Atomists
39. Short-Short
Pyrrhic Pattern
Frank Lloyd Wright
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Eugene Delacroix
40. American transcendentalist who dealt with macabre issues of insanity and horror - Fall of the House of Usher - Tell Tale Heart - The Raven
Bronte Sisters
Edgar Allen Poe
Monometer
Hestia/Vesta
41. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
dada school
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Foot
French Romantic painter
42. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Paleolithic
Spondaic Pattern
Eugene Delacroix
Macbeth
43. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style
Giotto
Issac Asimov
Salvador Dali
Peter Paul Rubens
44. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Jane Austen
Scrim
Mary Shelley
Abstraction
45. Author of the first real historical drama and first English tragedy - The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus - Edward the Second
Joseph Conrad
Mary McCarthy
Christopher Marlowe
Merchant of Venice
46. Fast
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
allegro
Andrea Palladio
Andrew Wyeth
47. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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48. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
French female pose
Verdi and Puccini
Remington
Plato
49. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Ray Bradbury
Pallas Athena/Minerva
tempura
Stephen Crane
50. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
King Lear
Mathew Brady
Ernest Hemingway
Chopin