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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Greek Corinthian
Trimeter
Aristotle
2. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
henry moore
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Samuel Beckett
andante
3. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Usonian
Trompe l'oeil
Stephen Crane
Tempura
4. Palace constructed by Louis XIV outside of Paris to glorify his rule and subdue the nobility. Exp. of Baroque style in France
Hera/Juno
Versailles
Alfred Hitchcock
Serge Diaghilev
5. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Buddhists
Artemis/Diana
Serge Diaghilev
Giotto
6. A capella singers
madrigal
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
James Boswell
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
7. Is an illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin - containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
Eugene O'Neil
Brahmans
Francois Rabelais
Book of Kells
8. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
T.S. Eliot
Imagery
Fresco
James Boswell
9. 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.
Mathew Brady
Thales
Hades/Pluto
Bayeux tapestry
10. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Abstraction
Metaphor
11. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Heraclitus
Existentialism
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Pentameter
12. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Medieval Architecture
Edgar Allen Poe
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
13. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
gothic age architecture
Cervantes
Pablo Picasso
14. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Chopin
Victor Hugo
Le Corbusier
Mark Twain
15. The text of the opera
Libretto
Ghiberti
Mathew Brady
Socrates
16. The text of the opera
Niccolo Machiavelli
Libretto
Jackson Pollock
Picasso
17. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery
Georg W. F. Hegel
Neolithic
Surrealism
Mathew Brady
18. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
madrigal
William Wordsworth
Imagery
19. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Lorraine Hansberry
renaissance
Charles Dickens
Merry Wives of Windsor
20. Impressionistic Music
D.W. Griffith
Impressionistic Art came before
Aristotle
John Locke
21. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Flying buttresses
hagia sophia
Mary McCarthy
Johannes Brahms
22. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
A long syllable
Jane Austen
Libretto
Classical Period
23. An English writer who wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' - arguing that women are not naturally inferior to men - but appear to be so because of lack of education
Mary Wollstonecraft
Langston Hughes
Frank Gehry 1929
scrim
24. A capella singers
Bayeux tapestry
Edmund Spenser
Edvard Greig
madrigal
25. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
flying buttress
Jules Verne
Obelisk
Christopher Marlowe
26. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Da Vinci
Mathew Brady
Pablo Picasso
Giotto
27. Wrote operas
New Orleans
Verdi and Puccini
Existentialism
Christopher Wren
28. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Lillian Gish
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Confucianism
Noh Theatre
29. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Allegory
chalice
Josiah Wedgewood
Obelisk
30. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Francois Rabelais
Octometer
Hector Berlioz
reliquary
31. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
sitar
Niccolo Machiavelli
Spondaic Pattern
Greek Doric
32. Russian composer
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Hector Berlioz
Pablo Picasso
flat
33. God of War
Ares/Mars
New Orleans
fresco
Epicureans
34. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Pablo Picasso
Jules Verne
Mosaic
Tetrameter
35. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Parmenides
Post Impressionism
Socrates
chalice
36. Popularized the use of allegory - The Faerie Queen - Amoretti
Edmund Spenser
obelisk
Merchant of Venice
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
37. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Seurat
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mary Shelley
Pavane and the Polonaise
38. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Jules Verne
Edgar Allen Poe
Alice Walker
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
39. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
American Indian Rugs
Atomists
Raphael
Christopher Wren
40. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Roman Basilica
Aristotle
Existentialism
41. 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.
hagia sophia
Socrates
El Greco
Mozart and Richard Strauss
42. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Reliquary
Da Vinci
Edgar Allen Poe
Parmenides
43. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Mary McCarthy
bust
Martin Heidegger
Mannerism
44. This building was built in Rome and contains remains of may Roman Emperors
Libretto
The Panthenon
tempura
Thomas Edison
45. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Denouement
soliloquy
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
46. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Mary McCarthy
Pythagoras
sitar
Alexander Dumas
47. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
multi-media
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Roman Basilica
Simone De Beauvoir
48. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
A short syllable
Joan Miro
Sitar
Beethoven & Wagner
49. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Josiah Wedgewood
A short syllable
A long syllable
50. Fast
tragic figure
allegro
Joseph Conrad
Didactic-ism