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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
French Romantic painter
A short syllable
Usonian
Issac Asimov
2. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Joseph Conrad
IM Pei
Zeno
alexander calder
3. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Jonathan Swift
George Sand
Aphrodite/Venus
4. God of the underworld - and wealth
Hades/Pluto
E.E. Cummings
Henrik Ibsen
Jonathan Swift
5. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
alexander calder
Athena/Minerva
Johannes Brahms
6. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
T.S. Eliot
Alliteration
Andrea Palladio
Apostrophe
7. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
James Boswell
Pilgrim's Progress
allegro
Edmund Spenser
8. One of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The Republic. In his ideal state - the people were divided into three different groups.
french female pose
Plato
multi-media
Christopher Wren
9. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Johannes Brahms
reliquary
Ernest Hemingway
Church of San Vitale
10. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Vermeer
Hera/Juno
King Lear
11. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Brunelleschi
Dactylic
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Honore de Balzac
12. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
bel canto
Cynics
Donatello
Jane Austen
13. 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
Roman Basilica
Scott Joplin
Raphael
Mies van der Rohe
14. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
Antonio Gaudi
Neoclassicism
Joseph Conrad
Brunelleschi
15. 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.
Salvador Dali
James Joyce
Jonathan Swift
The Pigeon House
16. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
flat
King Lear
Johannes Brahms
Thomas Edison
17. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Rembrandt
Aaron Copeland
Niccolo Machiavelli
Henry Dixon Cowell
18. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Mosaic
Romanticism Movement
The Parthenon
constantin brancusi
19. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
presto
Victor Hugo
Leo Tolstoy
Neolithic
20. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
William Shakespeare
Impressionistic Art came before
Charles Dickens
henry moore
21. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Book of Durrow
Eisenstein
Chartres Cathedral
Charles Dickens
22. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Humanism
George Sand
Kronos/Saturn
23. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Jules Verne
Dimeter
Demeter/Ceres
alexander calder
24. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction
Leo Tolstoy
Cimabue
Francesco Petrarch
Brussels tapestries
25. 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
Zeno
Aristotle
gouche
Dimeter
26. Japanese Artist - Thirty six view of Mt. Fuji - most famous Japanese mountain
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Josiah Wedgewood
Christopher Wren
Vaishyas
27. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Frank Lloyd Wright
Renaissance
Jean Fragonard
Herman Melville
28. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
renaissance
King Lear
Mark Twain
Michelangelo
29. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Libretto
Mathew Brady
Remington
gothic age architecture
30. Wrote Rivals
Richard Sheridan
Chopin
Mary McCarthy
hagia sophia
31. Played the xylophone and marimba
tragic figure
Lionel Hampton
Claude Debussy
Impressionism
32. Goddess of Flowers and Spring
minuetto
Usonian
Chloris/Flora
Hera/Juno
33. Goddess of Animals
Da Vinci
Jonathan Swift
Maia/Fauna
Lionel Hampton
34. Composer - conductor and pianist
Johannes Brahms
Salvador Dali
Andre Previn
George Sand
35. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Christopher Wren
El Greco
Modern Period
36. God of Wine and Theatre
Frank Lloyd Wright
Dionysus/Bacchus
Scott Joplin
Frank Lloyd Wright
37. 20th Century American composer
Versailles
New Orleans
Henry Dixon Cowell
Imagery
38. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Baroque Period
presto
ballet
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
39. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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40. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Hellenistic Period
Josiah Wedgewood
Gilbert Stuart
michelangelo
41. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Jules Verne
tempura
Honore de Balzac
bust
42. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
hagia sophia
Thomas Edison
renaissance
Aristotle
43. 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
Classical Period
Picasso
Antonio Gaudi
oratorio
44. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Transcendentalism
Antonio Gaudi
Salvador Dali
Baroque art
45. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
Cubism
Macbeth
Samuel Beckett
Monometer
46. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Persian Rugs
The Iliad
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Eros/Cupid
47. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Edmund Spenser
Eisenstein
Issac Asimov
Jackson Pollock
48. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
sitar
Whole Tone Scale
Paleolithic
Tyche/Fortuna
49. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
ballet
Greek Doric
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
50. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
fresco
Samuel Beckett
New Orleans
scrim