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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Addressing of a person or thing that is not actually their. Example: Romeo - Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!
Apostrophe
Pieta
Hephaestus/Vulcan
A long syllable
2. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Tragic figure
Blank Verse
Persian Rugs
Mary Wollstonecraft
3. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Parmenides
Othello
Seurat
4. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Delacroix
William Shakespeare
madrigal
Penny Marshall
5. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
madrigal
Brussels tapestries
Bolero
6. God of Wine and Theatre
John Roebling
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Dionysus/Bacchus
Giotto
7. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.
Victor Hugo
El Greco
D.W. Griffith
Richard Sheridan
8. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Mark Twain
Serge Diaghilev
Andrew Wyeth
9. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
gouche
Josiah Wedgewood
Honore de Balzac
Spondaic Pattern
10. Opaque watercolor
Metaphor
gouche
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
The Pigeon House
11. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Neoplatonism
Church of San Vitale
Alexander Dumas
Renaissance Art
12. An Italian painter - sculptor - and architect of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Among many achievements in a life of nearly ninety years - sculpted the David and several versions of the Pieta - painted the ceiling and rear wall of the Sistine
Salvador Dali
Michelangelo
Hamlet
Benjamin Franklin
13. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
alexander calder
Byzantine Style
Romanticism Movement
Art Deco Movement
14. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Joan Miro
Aubrey Beardsley
Plato
Mary Shelley
15. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Classical Period
Surrealism
Thales
Brussels tapestries
16. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Samuel Beckett
James Boswell
Lillian Gish
Aaron Copeland
17. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Cubism
Frank Lloyd Wright
gothic age architecture
William Wordsworth
18. A story were characters or objects represent abstract idea or qualities. i.e. Goodness - Evil - Love - Death - etc...
Allegory
Aristotle
Zeno
Mary Wollstonecraft
19. Leucippus and Democritus
Phoebus/Apollo
Atomists
Serge Diaghilev
Lorraine Hansberry
20. French impressionist painter
aside
Mary Shelley
Monet
Penny Marshall
21. A direct comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. Example: John swims like a fish.
Simile
Greek Ionic
oratorio
Jane Austen
22. Science fiction writer
Ray Bradbury
Delacroix
Meter
Issac Asimov
23. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
Herman Melville
Iambic pattern
Hector Berlioz
Scott Joplin
24. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Hyperbole
Henry Dixon Cowell
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
alexander calder
25. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Merry Wives of Windsor
bel canto
Brunelleschi
Phoebus/Apollo
26. 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
Federico Fellini
Pablo Picasso
Henrik Ibsen
27. Opaque watercolor
ballet
Shudras
Gouche
Alexander Dumas
28. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Foot
Hector Berlioz
Kshatriyas
gothic age architecture
29. Architect who like a statue at every corner
Hestia/Vesta
Lorraine Hansberry
Andrea Palladio
Cervantes
30. Known as the Father of Taoism - Sixth century B.C. philosopher Lao Tzu (or 'Old Sage') is credited with starting the philosophy of Taoism. Some scholars believe that he was a slightly older contemporary of Confucius.
Impressionistic Art came before
Lao Tzu
Cerros
Shudras
31. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Langston Hughes
Alliteration
Mosaic
Heraclitus
32. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Ray Bradbury
Renoir
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
aside
33. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Aphrodite/Venus
Peter Paul Rubens
multi-media
Joseph Conrad
34. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).
Samuel Beckett
Hera/Juno
Heraclitus
Thomas Edison
35. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Handel
Francois Rabelais
Eisenstein
Noh Theatre
36. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Marc Chagall
Aristotle
Merry Wives of Windsor
Scrim
37. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Andrea Palladio
Renoir
Octometer
Giotto
38. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Barcelona Pavilion
Metaphor
Shudras
Socrates
39. One unit of meter in poetry
presto
Delacroix
Foot
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
40. 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
Vincent van Gogh
The Parthenon
Giotto
Classical Period
41. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Bolero
Chartres Cathedral
Simone De Beauvoir
Seurat
42. Composer - conductor and pianist
Herman Melville
Alexander Dumas
T.S. Eliot
Andre Previn
43. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
alexander calder
Popular Transcendentalists
Romanesque Style
Hans-Georg Gadamer
44. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Shelley
aside
Jules Verne
Mannerism
45. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Ballet
Donatello
Botticelli
Edmund Spenser
46. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Herman Melville
Jules Verne
Christopher Wren
Hector Berlioz
47. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Seurat
Ray Bradbury
Joan Miro
48. Opaque watercolor
gouche
gothic age architecture
Charles Dickens
Verdi and Puccini
49. God of the Underworld and Death
Hamlet
Jean Fragonard
Hades/Pluto
Imagery
50. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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