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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Jonathan Swift
Gilbert Stuart
pieta
2. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore
Donatello
Henry Dixon Cowell
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Christopher Wren
3. The Color Purple
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
constantin brancusi
Alice Walker
Andrew Wyeth
4. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)
Andrew Wyeth
Stephen Crane
Book of Durrow
Ares/Mars
5. 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.
Baroque art
Peter Paul Rubens
Pyrrhic Pattern
Bayeux tapestry
6. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Raphael
Minimalist Music
Pilgrim's Progress
Cerros
7. 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
Merchant of Venice
Monet
Popular Transcendentalists
neo-classic period
8. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
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9. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
American Indian Rugs
Picasso
obelisk
Mary McCarthy
10. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Edmund Spenser
Trochaic pattern
Edvard Greig
Jean Fragonard
11. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Meter
Hyperbole
Vaishyas
T.S. Eliot
12. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Samuel Beckett
soliloquy
Macbeth
Guggenheim Museum
13. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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14. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Honore de Balzac
Remington
Atomism
John Roebling
15. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Pavane and the Polonaise
Salvador Dali
William Blake
16. A dance
Herman Melville
bust
minuetto
A short syllable
17. 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
minuetto
Macbeth
Pilgrim's Progress
Mary Wollstonecraft
18. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man
Impressionistic Art came before
presto
Neoclassicism
Mary Shelley
19. Short-Short
Merry Wives of Windsor
Issac Asimov
Pyrrhic Pattern
Ray Bradbury
20. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Ares/Mars
Remington
Niccolo Machiavelli
Francois Rabelais
21. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Satire
Othello
James Boswell
sitar
22. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Immanuel Kant
Sitar
Lao Tzu
Existentialism
23. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Mathew Brady
Tyche/Fortuna
Antonio Gaudi
Merry Wives of Windsor
24. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
Niccolo Machiavelli
Andre Previn
Frank Lloyd Wright
Bernini
25. God of Wine
William Shakespeare
Seurat
Dionysus/Bacchus
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
26. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Zeno
Frank Lloyd Wright
Vincent van Gogh
Gilbert Stuart
27. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Alexander Dumas
Peter Paul Rubens
Simone De Beauvoir
andante
28. God of the Underworld and Death
Jules Verne
The Pigeon House
Hades/Pluto
Flying buttresses
29. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Fauvism
John Locke
constantin brancusi
30. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Edmund Spenser
Libretto
Augustine Age
31. 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
George Sand
Leo Tolstoy
Irony
allegro
32. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
gothic age architecture
D.W. Griffith
Frank Lloyd Wright
Free Verse
33. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Pallas Athena/Minerva
High Renaissance Painters
Humanism
barbara hepworth
34. Short-Short-Long
bel canto
Eisenstein
James Joyce
Anapestic Pattern
35. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure
Arthur Miller
Al Jolson
Fauvism
Heraclitus
36. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Mosaic
Stephen Crane
William Faulkner
Allegory
37. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Immanuel Kant
Demeter/Ceres
William Blake
Claude Debussy
38. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Alfred Hitchcock
Penny Marshall
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Tragic figure
39. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Martin Heidegger
Herman Melville
renaissance
Da Vinci
40. Opaque watercolor
Gouche
Hermes/Mercury
Libretto
neo-classic period
41. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Leo Tolstoy
Marc Chagall
Ray Bradbury
Bronte Sisters
42. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r
Niccolo Machiavelli
Post Impressionism
Cynics
sculpture
43. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Othello
Issac Asimov
Stephen Foster
Delacroix
44. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Degas
Imagery
Giotto
Flying buttress
45. 20th Century American composer
James Joyce
Eugene O'Neil
Henry Dixon Cowell
Lionel Hampton
46. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Lindisfarne Gospel
Samuel Beckett
47. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Da Vinci
Alliteration
Medieval Architecture
48. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Fresco
Leonardo da Vinci
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
George Sand
49. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Jonathan Swift
Langston Hughes
Epic
Foot
50. Long-Long
Joseph Conrad
Spondaic Pattern
renaissance
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951