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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Tragic Playwrights
El Greco
louise nevelson
Francois Rabelais
2. 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
aside
Arnold Schoenberg
Jonathan Swift
Herman Melville
3. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Gilbert and Sullivan
Hermes/Mercury
Verdi and Puccini
4. God of the underworld - and wealth
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Eugene O'Neil
Ares/Mars
Hades/Pluto
5. The Italian sculptor and goldsmith who was best known for the doors to the baptistery of Florence's cathedral - and another set of doors which was called 'The Gates to Paradise'. He also wrote one of the earliest autobiographies by an artist - which
Ghiberti
Ballet
Monet
T.S. Eliot
6. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
Irony
Simone De Beauvoir
Langston Hughes
7. A plain - sturdy column with a plain capital
IM Pei
gothic age architecture
Kouroi
Doric
8. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
Aubrey Beardsley
Hyperbole
Greek Corinthian
9. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Pentatonic Scale
Frank Lloyd Wright
Mary Shelley
10. Goddess of Marriage
obelisk
Hera/Juno
Federico Fellini
Antonio Gaudi
11. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -
Andrea Palladio
Seurat
Henry Dixon Cowell
Pearl Buck
12. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Johannes Brahms
High Renaissance
reliquary
13. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Onomatopoeia
Henrik Ibsen
Jean Fragonard
Noh Theatre
14. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Martha Graham
fresco
Rembrandt
Barcelona Pavilion
15. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
John Roebling
Joseph Conrad
Herman Melville
barbara hepworth
16. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater
Gilbert Stuart
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Scott Joplin
Rembrandt
17. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
Bernini
Manhattan Project
Henrik Ibsen
18. 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
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Lillian Gish
Arthur Miller
19. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
pop art
Lillian Gish
Macbeth
michelangelo
20. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
allegro
Eros/Cupid
Joan Miro
Serge Diaghilev
21. Played the xylophone and marimba
Christopher Wren
Picasso
Lionel Hampton
Delacroix
22. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Vermeer
Arthur Miller
madrigal
pieta
23. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Niccolo Machiavelli
Samuel Beckett
Atomists
24. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Hestia/Vesta
Manhattan Project
Martin Heidegger
Alliteration
25. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Victor Hugo
andante
ballet
scrim
26. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Shudras
Martin Heidegger
Salvador Dali
27. Slow
Issac Asimov
Libretto
andante
Neoclassicism
28. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Salvador Dali
Delacroix
renaissance
Doric
29. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Vermeer
Beethoven & Wagner
Cimabue
Trimeter
30. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
Pythagoras
Usonian
Renoir
31. 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.
Seurat
Renoir
Hagia Sophia
Bayeux tapestry
32. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Pearl Buck
John Roebling
Honore de Balzac
Brahmans
33. God of Wine
Confucianism
Thomas Hobbes
Dionysus/Bacchus
Epic
34. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
IM Pei
Alexander Dumas
Doric
Daniel Defoe
35. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Tragic figure
Stoicism
Atomism
Alexander Dumas
36. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Federico Fellini
Dionysus/Bacchus
James Joyce
37. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Jules Verne
Chopin
Salvador Dali
Johannes Brahms
38. A dance
The Parthenon
Beethoven & Wagner
minuetto
Rembrandt
39. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
American Indian Rugs
Mies van der Rohe
Le Corbusier
Romanesque Style
40. Beautiful Italian singing
Simone Martini
Bayeux tapestry
Handel
bel canto
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.
Francois Rabelais
Mary Wollstonecraft
hagia sophia
Islam
42. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Stravinsky
Chopin
Pearl Buck
43. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Seurat
Parmenides
Othello
sculpture
44. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Scott Joplin
Fauvism
bust
Hector Berlioz
45. School of nonsense and anti-art
dada school
Plato
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Renoir
46. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
bust
Pilgrim's Progress
Whole Tone Scale
Lillian Gish
47. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Chalice
Lorraine Hansberry
Frank Lloyd Wright
Jules Verne
48. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
louise nevelson
Corinthian
pieta
Arthur Miller
49. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Impressionistic Art came before
Jonathan Swift
New Orleans
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
50. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.
Dimeter
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
obelisk
Georgia O'Keefe