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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Picasso
Ray Bradbury
Hexameter
James Joyce
2. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Andrea Palladio
Picasso
Victor Hugo
Andrea Palladio
3. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
pieta
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Augustine Age
Vermeer
4. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Le Corbusier
Remington
Symbolism
Federico Fellini
5. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Martha Graham
William Faulkner
Mies van der Rohe
6. Goddess of Marriage
Versailles
Hyperbole
Hera/Juno
Aristotle
7. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
henry moore
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hermes/Mercury
8. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
Pythagoras
ballet
Aubrey Beardsley
9. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Merchant of Venice
flat
Herman Melville
Islam
10. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Ballet
Langston Hughes
Masaccio
bel canto
11. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Rhymed Verse
Leo Tolstoy
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Mathew Brady
12. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dactylic
Hermes/Mercury
Confucianism
Alexander Dumas
13. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
chalice
Socrates
oratorio
Pallas Athena/Minerva
14. 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
Dactylic
Book of Kells
flying buttress
15. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Stephen Crane
Pearl Buck
Persian Rugs
Whole Tone Scale
16. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Aubrey Beardsley
Hermes/Mercury
Salvador Dali
Minimalist Music
17. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Richard Sheridan
Bayeux tapestry
Celtic Art
Gilbert Stuart
18. 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.
Gouche
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Raphael
Alexander Dumas
19. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Baroque Period
Cervantes
Marc Chagall
Bolero
20. Fast
allegro
mannerism
Bronte Sisters
Modern Period
21. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
korai
Mark Twain
Pearl Buck
Plato
22. Three-foot line
Trimeter
Hector Berlioz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mark Twain
23. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Al Jolson
Delacroix
Brunelleschi
Jean Fragonard
24. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Simile
Renoir
Obelisk
Herman Melville
25. Gainsborough (1727-1788) was one of the first great landscape artists of his time - and was recognized for painting every section of his works himself
Rembrandt
The Panthenon
Thomas Gainsborough
Eugene O'Neil
26. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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27. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f
andante
Phoebus/Apollo
Frank Gehry 1929
Leonardo da Vinci
28. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
madrigal
Reliquary
fresco
mosaics
29. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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30. Is a form of writing that blends criticism with humor and wit. Ridiculing with purpose of inspiring reform.
Honore de Balzac
Satire
IM Pei
multi-media
31. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
Stravinsky
Socrates
Picasso
32. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
gothic age architecture
John Roebling
Cervantes
33. Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
Monometer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Benjamin Franklin
34. God of Wisdom
Athena/Minerva
flying buttress
Degas
Renoir
35. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Eugene O'Neil
E.E. Cummings
Andre Previn
pieta
36. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
fresco
Gilbert and Sullivan
Cubism
37. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Pythagoras
Mosaic
Minimalist Music
Eisenstein
38. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Hector Berlioz
Mark Twain
Reliquary
Picasso
39. Long-Short-Short
barbara hepworth
Aaron Copeland
Dactylic
Salvador Dali
40. British abstract sculptor
Lao Tzu
barbara hepworth
Spondaic Pattern
flying buttress
41. Composer - conductor and pianist
Andre Previn
Pilgrim's Progress
Vaishyas
Mathew Brady
42. Transitional movement in the 1880's connecting Impressionism and cubism in the visual arts
Post Impressionism
Artemis/Diana
minuetto
James Boswell
43. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Johannes Brahms
John Locke
Martha Graham
Daniel Defoe
44. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Eisenstein
korai
Onomatopoeia
Charles Dickens
45. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Cervantes
Cervantes
Zeus/Jupiter
Fresco
46. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd
Lorraine Hansberry
Herman Melville
Foot
Francois Rabelais
47. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Neolithic
Macbeth
Samuel Beckett
Guggenheim Museum
48. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei
Andrew Wyeth
Irony
Degas
Merry Wives of Windsor
49. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Cervantes
Claude Debussy
Seurat
Alfred Hitchcock
50. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Hector Berlioz
Degas
Pearl Buck