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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Impressionism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Handel
Richard Sheridan
2. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Macbeth
Satire
Simile
Pallas Athena/Minerva
3. External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by what?
Seurat
Macbeth
Charles Dickens
Flying buttresses
4. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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5. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
Edmund Spenser
Lillian Gish
Kshatriyas
6. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Soliloquy
Pilgrim's Progress
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Phoebus/Apollo
7. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
ballet
Tchaikovsky
The Muses
Roman Basilica
8. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
cellini
Athena/Minerva
Arthur Miller
9. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Scott Joplin
King Lear
Simile
Jean Jacques Rousseau
10. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
tragic figure
Persian Rugs
Book of Durrow
Dactylic
11. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state
Hestia/Vesta
Symbolism
Peter Paul Rubens
Alexander Dumas
12. Rebirth
Guggenheim Museum
Charles Dickens
Gilbert Stuart
renaissance
13. 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.
D.W. Griffith
Delacroix
Joan Miro
Pieta
14. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Hagia Sophia
Martha Graham
Hexameter
constantin brancusi
15. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Issac Asimov
The Pigeon House
James Joyce
alexander calder
16. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Al Jolson
Tragic figure
John Roebling
Beethoven & Wagner
17. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
oratorio
Reliquary
Stephen Crane
Eisenstein
18. Chinese Painter; harp player in a pavillion
William Wordsworth
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Merchant of Venice
Eugene O'Neil
19. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Remington
Impressionistic Art came before
Mark Twain
Andrea Palladio
20. 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.
Plato
Merchant of Venice
Stephen Crane
King Lear
21. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Fauvism
Stephen Crane
Impressionism
Persian Rugs
22. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
Roman Basilica
Josiah Wedgewood
Scott Joplin
Frank Lloyd Wright
23. God of Commerce - The messenger of Zeus
Hermes/Mercury
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Merchant of Venice
Augustine Age
24. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
A long syllable
Christopher Wren
mosaics
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
25. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Noh Theatre
Martha Graham
Donatello
Antonio Gaudi
26. One of the greatest sculptors of the 19th century - The Thinker: The Kiss 12.2
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Langston Hughes
Joan Miro
korai
27. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright
John Locke
Alexander Dumas
28. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo
James Boswell
William Wordsworth
Alexander Dumas
Meter
29. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Whole Tone Scale
Henrik Ibsen
Socrates
Hera/Juno
30. Opaque watercolor
A short syllable
Gouche
Andre Previn
Hector Berlioz
31. Literature whose primary aim is to expound some moral - political - or other teaching.
Didactic-ism
Mary Wollstonecraft
tempura
Heptameter
32. Composer - conductor and pianist
Andre Previn
Claude Debussy
gouche
Delacroix
33. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Book of Durrow
Samuel Beckett
mosaics
34. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'
alexander calder
Scott Joplin
Penny Marshall
Dionysus/Bacchus
35. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Irony
Popular Transcendentalists
Simone De Beauvoir
Arnold Schoenberg
36. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Ray Bradbury
Aaron Copeland
William Blake
37. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Verdi and Puccini
french female pose
Alliteration
Giotto
38. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Whole Tone Scale
Christopher Wren
Hamlet
Lao Tzu
39. 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.
Byzantine Style
Jonathan Swift
Art Deco Movement
Claude Debussy
40. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Beethoven & Wagner
Andrew Wyeth
Charles Dickens
41. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Benjamin Franklin
Celtic Art
Heraclitus
F. Scott Fitzgerald
42. Spanish surrealist painter
Donatello
ballet
Charles Dickens
Joan Miro
43. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Simone De Beauvoir
Modern Period
High Renaissance
aside
44. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Penny Marshall
Federico Fellini
Cerros
Maia/Fauna
45. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Mary McCarthy
John Dryden
pop art
Ray Bradbury
46. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Verdi and Puccini
Christopher Wren
Whole Tone Scale
alexander calder
47. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
alexander calder
William Faulkner
Neoclassicism
48. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Daniel Defoe
Lindisfarne Gospel
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
neo-classic period
49. Movement in Church design towards theme of 'Christ - the Light of the World' - Gothic structure (reflected God's transcendence - power - and beauty). Built higher - allowed large stain glass windows. Served as visual catechism for those living during
Leo Tolstoy
Artemis/Diana
Medieval Architecture
Jean Fragonard
50. Spanish surrealist painter
Salvador Dali
Roman Basilica
sculpture
Stephen Crane