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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Chopin
John Locke
Stravinsky
Mathew Brady
2. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
Kshatriyas
Flat
Andrea Palladio
3. Wrote Rivals
El Greco
Richard Sheridan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Al Jolson
4. God of Wisdom
Simone De Beauvoir
Athena/Minerva
Henrik Ibsen
Seurat
5. French Impressionistic music composer; won the Prix de Rome (award given by the French government) Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun; LaMer
mannerism
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Tyche/Fortuna
alexander calder
6. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
King Lear
Henrik Ibsen
constantin brancusi
Stephen Foster
7. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Samuel Beckett
Bronte Sisters
Arnold Schoenberg
Metaphor
8. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain.
Obelisk
Bernini
Barcelona Pavilion
Mozart and Richard Strauss
9. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Penny Marshall
Usonian
Eugene O'Neil
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
10. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Vincent van Gogh
Hector Berlioz
Mathew Brady
scrim
11. God of Marriage
Charles Dickens
Soliloquy
Kronos/Saturn
Hera/Juno
12. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
sitar
Gouche
French female pose
Hades/Pluto
13. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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14. 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
Johannes Brahms
madrigal
Christopher Wren
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
15. Opaque watercolor
Picasso
New Orleans
hagia sophia
gouche
16. 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
Transcendentalism
Seurat
Greek Corinthian
Classical Period
17. A painting - drawing - or sculpture of Mary - the Mother of Jesus - holding the dead body of Jesus. The word means 'pity' in Italian.
Whole Tone Scale
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Post and Lintel
pieta
18. Wrote Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Tchaikovsky
madrigal
Phoebus/Apollo
19. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Manhattan Project
Othello
flat
Edmund Spenser
20. Impressionistic Music
Ballet
Eisenstein
Impressionistic Art came before
flying buttress
21. 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
Rembrandt
minuetto
Hagia Sophia
Merry Wives of Windsor
22. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Andrea Palladio
Aaron Copeland
Mary Shelley
tempura
23. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Mary McCarthy
Remington
24. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
pieta
William Faulkner
Thomas Edison
Hamlet
25. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Le Corbusier
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
neo-classic period
Kshatriyas
26. 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
oratorio
Plato
Verdi and Puccini
Leonardo da Vinci
27. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.
Monometer
Imagery
Apollo
Merchant of Venice
28. 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
Othello
Thomas Gainsborough
Alliteration
Dionysus/Bacchus
29. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jean Jacques Rousseau
American Indian Rugs
30. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Edgar Allen Poe
Masaccio
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Epicureans
31. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Handel
Hera/Juno
alexander calder
Jules Verne
32. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
bel canto
Aristotle
Dactylic
Zeno
33. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Bayeux tapestry
Socrates
Tragic figure
34. Artist of 'Purple Robe' (1937) - 'The Blue Nude' (1907) - 'The Piano Lesson' (1916) - and 'The Moorish Screen' (1921) - Known for his bold colors and thick - vibrant brushstrokes - pioneer in the modernist movement
Henri Matisse
flying buttress
Henry Dixon Cowell
Arnold Schoenberg
35. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Frank Lloyd Wright
gouche
Victor Hugo
Allegory
36. 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
soliloquy
Mary Wollstonecraft
Hades/Pluto
allegro
37. A capella singers
madrigal
alexander calder
Aphrodite/Venus
Flying buttress
38. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Rembrandt
Bolero
William Shakespeare
Henrik Ibsen
39. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
D.W. Griffith
Mary McCarthy
Renaissance
Ray Bradbury
40. 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
Neolithic
Daniel Defoe
Benjamin Franklin
41. 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).
Vincent van Gogh
andante
Aubrey Beardsley
Heraclitus
42. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Transcendentalism
Moai
Noh Theatre
cellini
43. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
James Boswell
Daniel Defoe
Onomatopoeia
Reliquary
44. Spanish surrealist painter
Roman Basilica
William Shakespeare
renaissance
Salvador Dali
45. That culture associated with the spread of Greek influence as a result of Macedonian conquests; often seen as the combination of Greek culture with eastern political forms
Hellenistic Period
Hades/Pluto
Noh Theatre
Roman Basilica
46. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Donatello
Cimabue
Aaron Copeland
Hermes/Mercury
47. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Thales
George Sand
tragic figure
aside
48. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme
Stravinsky
Trompe l'oeil
Pearl Buck
Blank Verse
49. Dutch post Impressionistic painter 'Starry Night' color plate 72; moved to France;committed suicide
presto
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Serialism
Moral Philosophers
50. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas
Humanism
Henry Dixon Cowell
John Dryden
Hermes/Mercury