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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Roman Basilica
Manichaeism
Persian Rugs
2. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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3. Slow
andante
Eisenstein
Medieval Architecture
High Renaissance
4. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Othello
Lorraine Hansberry
tempura
5. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Verdi and Puccini
dada school
tempura
Atomism
6. God of War
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Bayeux tapestry
Arthur Miller
Ares/Mars
7. 'Father of Western Philosophy'. Greek philosopher who taught that the universe had originated from water.
Confucianism
Josiah Wedgewood
Thales
Al Jolson
8. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
High Renaissance
Church of San Vitale
Foot
alexander calder
9. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Cervantes
Hamlet
chalice
Charles Dickens
10. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
constantin brancusi
Victor Hugo
Chopin
Bolero
11. French 20th century architect
Minimalist Music
Arthur Miller
Le Corbusier
Federico Fellini
12. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Honore de Balzac
T.S. Eliot
13. Is the last accepted pagan philosophy and was founded by Plotinus around 300 AD and based around the ideas of Plato. Disregarding the idea of separate - opposite realms of being (such as good and evil) - Plotinus instead mapped out a logical order to
Gilbert Stuart
Neoplatonism
William Faulkner
Mary McCarthy
14. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Penny Marshall
Niccolo Machiavelli
Martha Graham
15. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Dickens
Hamlet
Taoism
16. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Simile
D.W. Griffith
neo-classic period
Masaccio
17. Wrote operas
Verdi and Puccini
Langston Hughes
henry moore
Tchaikovsky
18. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Aubrey Beardsley
Greek Ionic
Hera/Juno
Bronte Sisters
19. God of Wine and Theatre
Rembrandt
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Issac Asimov
Dionysus/Bacchus
20. Played the xylophone and marimba
fresco
Trompe l'oeil
Lionel Hampton
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
21. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Stravinsky
Thomas Edison
Andrea Palladio
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
22. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
Soliloquy
Atomists
Pyrrhic Pattern
Eisenstein
23. The text of the opera
Libretto
Mary McCarthy
cellini
Pieta
24. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Tempura
Zeus/Jupiter
Aubrey Beardsley
Herman Melville
25. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge
Aristotle
Manhattan Project
Mannerism
Celtic Art
26. German metaphysician - began his string of successful philosophical publications with Critique of Pure Reason in 1781 - believed that reality extended only so far as an individual's personal degree of 'knowing -' and it is impossible to 'know' thing
Salvador Dali
High Renaissance Painters
Immanuel Kant
Geoffrey Chaucer
27. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Medieval Architecture
Gilbert Stuart
Ray Bradbury
28. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
T.S. Eliot
Maia/Fauna
Jonathan Swift
Remington
29. God of the Sun - poetry - music and oracles
Phoebus/Apollo
Macbeth
aside
Macbeth
30. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Donatello
Satire
Taoism
Tyche/Fortuna
31. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Simone De Beauvoir
Monet
obelisk
32. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Bayeux tapestry
Al Jolson
Marc Chagall
Salvador Dali
33. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
Hades/Pluto
Pavane and the Polonaise
Picasso
Lorraine Hansberry
34. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
sculpture
Apollo
Macbeth
35. Long-Long
Mary Wollstonecraft
Spondaic Pattern
Reliquary
Aaron Copeland
36. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Aside
Pentatonic Scale
Poseidon/Neptune
37. Messenger of the Gods and Finance
Merry Wives of Windsor
James Joyce
Hermes/Mercury
Zeno
38. Believe in the four noble truths: existence is suffering - suffering is caused by need - suffering can cease - and there is a path to the cessation of suffering. Though Buddhists do not believe in a god - they follow the teachings of the mortal Budd
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
Buddhists
Islam
Denouement
39. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Pavane and the Polonaise
Libretto
Mathew Brady
Andrea Palladio
40. Wrote Waiting for Godot. The only scenery for the play was a cyclorama (a giant curtain onthe back of the stage) and a single tree with one branch and one leaf.
bel canto
Herman Melville
Samuel Beckett
scrim
41. Free-standing statues of nude male youths
Romanticism Movement
Henrik Ibsen
Kouroi
Simone Martini
42. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Epic
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Stephen Crane
Hephaestus/Vulcan
43. Mannerism painter
Issac Asimov
Merchant of Venice
Atomists
El Greco
44. 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
Iambic pattern
Apollo
Da Vinci
Hellenistic Period
45. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Bayeux tapestry
Jonathan Swift
El Greco
46. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines
Rhymed Verse
Bronte Sisters
Denouement
Iambic pattern
47. The Persistence of Memory
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
D.W. Griffith
Salvador Dali
Paleolithic
48. Fast
Stephen Crane
Greek Ionic
Salvador Dali
presto
49. Alexander the Great's tutor and a student of Plato - He disagreed with Plato that form and matter could be perceived as two separate things - and wrote such works as Rhetoric - Poetics - and Metaphysics.
ballet
flying buttress
Aristotle
sculpture
50. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Martha Graham
Andrew Wyeth
Donatello
alexander calder