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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
mosaics
T.S. Eliot
Simone De Beauvoir
Spondaic Pattern
2. School of nonsense and anti-art
Leonardo da Vinci
Josiah Wedgewood
Langston Hughes
dada school
3. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Beethoven & Wagner
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Hermes/Mercury
Scrim
4. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Epic
Johannes Brahms
John Locke
Book of Durrow
5. French for 'fool the eye.' A two-dimensional representation that is so naturalistic that it looks actual or real (or three-dimensional).
6. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.
Eisenstein
Pyrrhic Pattern
Masaccio
Hector Berlioz
7. Two-foot line
Dimeter
Samuel Beckett
Merry Wives of Windsor
George Sand
8. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Picasso
Neo-classic period
Macbeth
renaissance
9. The Color Purple
Transcendentalism
Trompe l'oeil
Alice Walker
gothic age architecture
10. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Josiah Wedgewood
El Greco
King Lear
Ray Bradbury
11. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Pavane and the Polonaise
Handel
Merchant of Venice
E.E. Cummings
12. Goddess of Marriage
Vincent van Gogh
oratorio
Hera/Juno
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
13. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
madrigal
Pavane and the Polonaise
mannerism
14. An arrangement of colored tiles to form a decorative surface.
Lorraine Hansberry
Mosaic
Eisenstein
Pallas Athena/Minerva
15. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
The Iliad
Joseph Conrad
Doric
Picasso
16. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Heraclitus
Picasso
Reliquary
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
17. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
James Boswell
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Arthur Miller
Hector Berlioz
18. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
French female pose
Mary Shelley
obelisk
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
19. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Serge Diaghilev
Zeno
Alexander Dumas
Charles Dickens
20. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Pablo Picasso
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
scrim
Friedrich Nietzsche
21. Most famous American architect; Kaufman house also called 'Falling Water' Guggenheim museum - New York City Branch.
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Othello
The Parthenon
Donatello
22. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Peter Paul Rubens
Marc Chagall
Richard Sheridan
Libretto
23. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
pieta
The Panthenon
bel canto
24. The Persistence of Memory
Chopin
renaissance
fresco
Salvador Dali
25. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
French Romantic painter
multi-media
Augustine Age
Maia/Fauna
26. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Delacroix
Shudras
Artemis/Diana
Victor Hugo
27. The text of the opera
Libretto
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Simile
Edgar Allen Poe
28. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
James Boswell
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Pearl Buck
Joseph Conrad
29. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Vermeer
T.S. Eliot
Mathew Brady
Georgia O'Keeffe
30. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Gilbert Stuart
Mary Wollstonecraft
Frank Lloyd Wright
Arthur Miller
31. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe
32. Four-foot line
John Locke
Tetrameter
pop art
Vaishyas
33. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Onomatopoeia
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Zeno
Abstraction
34. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s
Islam
Andrea Palladio
scrim
William Shakespeare
35. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
D.W. Griffith
michelangelo
Roman Basilica
Georgia O'Keefe
36. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Bolero
french female pose
Church of San Vitale
John Locke
37. Composer - conductor and pianist
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Andre Previn
Merry Wives of Windsor
Mozart and Richard Strauss
38. A dance
Personification
minuetto
fresco
Le Corbusier
39. Court dances
Lionel Hampton
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hestia/Vesta
Tchaikovsky
40. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Pythagoras
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Guggenheim Museum
Book of Durrow
41. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Jean Jacques Rousseau
tragic figure
Vermeer
42. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Ray Bradbury
Hamlet
Tempura
Francois Rabelais
43. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
Renoir
John Roebling
Imagery
Thomas Edison
44. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Francois Rabelais
Pythagoras
Lorraine Hansberry
Byzantine Style
45. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
henry moore
Andrew Wyeth
Greek Corinthian
Ares/Mars
46. God of the Underworld and Death
Hades/Pluto
Rembrandt
Pablo Picasso
Free Verse
47. Mannerism painter
Aaron Copeland
El Greco
Raphael
Libretto
48. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Mary McCarthy
Gilbert Stuart
Pearl Buck
Tempura
49. French impressionist painter
Monet
Zeno
Post Impressionism
Aristotle
50. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women
Flying buttress
Samuel Beckett
George Sand
Denouement