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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Pearl Buck
Martha Graham
James Boswell
Edgar Allen Poe
2. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
Stephen Crane
Geoffrey Chaucer
aside
Alliteration
3. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
William Shakespeare
Islam
Usonian
Joseph Conrad
4. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
bust
Jules Verne
Stravinsky
Giotto
5. God of War
Chopin
Francois Rabelais
Ares/Mars
Spondaic Pattern
6. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Versailles
Othello
Stravinsky
Mies van der Rohe
7. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Free Verse
Symbolism
korai
8. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
E.E. Cummings
oratorio
Hexameter
9. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Thomas Gainsborough
obelisk
Daniel Defoe
Othello
10. Pre-Socrates
Brussels tapestries
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Henrik Ibsen
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
11. Slow
T.S. Eliot
Eugene O'Neil
andante
Modern Period
12. 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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13. Plato and Aristotle
Moral Philosophers
Giotto
Chalice
Jean Fragonard
14. The Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
Noh Theatre
flying buttress
Jean Jacques Rousseau
15. Painted 'The Bathers'
Foot
Jean Fragonard
James Joyce
Gilbert Stuart
16. Goddess of Wisdom
Remington
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Heraclitus
Tragic Playwrights
17. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Heraclitus
Gilbert Stuart
Mary McCarthy
Ares/Mars
18. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Hector Berlioz
Gilbert Stuart
Dactylic
Mies van der Rohe
19. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Johannes Brahms
Herman Melville
King Lear
Bronte Sisters
20. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
William Faulkner
Seurat
Giotto
21. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Socrates
gothic age architecture
minuetto
Mary Shelley
22. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Humanism
Barcelona Pavilion
IM Pei
Neo-classic period
23. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Hagia Sophia
gouche
Aubrey Beardsley
Reliquary
24. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Botticelli
Demeter/Ceres
Mozart and Richard Strauss
George Sand
25. 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.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Plato
minuetto
Obelisk
26. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Giotto
Medieval Architecture
Renoir
obelisk
27. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Dionysus/Bacchus
Beethoven & Wagner
Pilgrim's Progress
Hermes/Mercury
28. The most slender and ornate of the three Greek columns. Known for its decorative capital of delicately carved acanthus leaves.
Eisenstein
Corinthian
Samuel Beckett
Allegory
29. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Hermes/Mercury
Brahmans
Mark Twain
30. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
french female pose
constantin brancusi
The Iliad
Beethoven & Wagner
31. 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.
Persian Rugs
sculpture
New Orleans
D.W. Griffith
32. Long-Short-Short
Dactylic
Da Vinci
Sitar
Pilgrim's Progress
33. 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
Al Jolson
multi-media
Kshatriyas
34. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Renoir
Dionysus/Bacchus
Vermeer
Epicureans
35. A tall - four-sided shaft of stone that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.
Obelisk
Arthur Miller
Hector Berlioz
El Greco
36. A term that was originally coined during the Renaissance - it was a belief that man was the center of the universe. Humanism in general is a philosophy that centers around the capabilities of man.
Jonathan Swift
Henry Dixon Cowell
Herman Melville
Humanism
37. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
Macbeth
Degas
Stravinsky
henry moore
38. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Gilbert Stuart
constantin brancusi
Antonio Gaudi
39. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Guggenheim Museum
Cerros
Aubrey Beardsley
40. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Pearl Buck
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Penny Marshall
T.S. Eliot
41. Five-foot line
Immanuel Kant
Henry Dixon Cowell
Pentameter
Pearl Buck
42. Repititions of geometric lines
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Indian Rugs
Brunelleschi
43. 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.
Persian Rugs
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Josiah Wedgewood
Mozart and Richard Strauss
44. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Art Deco Movement
Othello
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
bel canto
45. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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46. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Samuel Beckett
Jonathan Swift
T.S. Eliot
Edmund Spenser
47. 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
Federico Fellini
Leo Tolstoy
Merry Wives of Windsor
Daniel Defoe
48. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Flat
Johannes Brahms
Alliteration
Jules Verne
49. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Hamlet
Jules Verne
Stoicism
Thales
50. A Dutch painter who used a great deal of light. He enjoyed painting people doing everyday things.
Noh Theatre
Honore de Balzac
Epic
Vermeer