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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Hades/Pluto
Atomism
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mosaic
2. Beautiful Italian singing
Pythagoras
Jean Fragonard
bel canto
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
3. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Maia/Fauna
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Christopher Wren
4. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
Brussels tapestries
Aristotle
Arthur Miller
Botticelli
5. 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.
mosaics
Samuel Beckett
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
pop art
6. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
minuetto
Seurat
Merry Wives of Windsor
King Lear
7. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Medieval Architecture
Theme
Brussels tapestries
Heptameter
8. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
Didactic-ism
chalice
Daniel Defoe
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
9. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
William Faulkner
Andrea Palladio
Joseph Conrad
William Blake
10. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
scrim
Jean Fragonard
Botticelli
11. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Pearl Buck
pop art
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
french female pose
12. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Georgia O'Keefe
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Noh Theatre
13. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.
Martha Graham
John Locke
Thomas Edison
gouche
14. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
D.W. Griffith
obelisk
Lorraine Hansberry
Bernini
15. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Trimeter
flat
Mark Twain
Dada school
16. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Edvard Greig
Seurat
mannerism
Salvador Dali
17. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
chalice
Honore de Balzac
Imagery
John Locke
18. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Eisenstein
fresco
James Joyce
D.W. Griffith
19. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Simone De Beauvoir
Thomas Edison
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Hamlet
20. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Mathew Brady
Guggenheim Museum
William Shakespeare
dada school
21. School of nonsense and anti-art
Jackson Pollock
neo-classic period
Greek Ionic
dada school
22. Science fiction writer
Tchaikovsky
Pavane and the Polonaise
Issac Asimov
Soliloquy
23. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Arnold Schoenberg
A short syllable
Cynics
King Lear
24. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Hamlet
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
25. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Simone De Beauvoir
Al Jolson
Free Verse
Joseph Conrad
26. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
pop art
Greek Ionic
Da Vinci
27. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Hades/Pluto
Christopher Wren
Salvador Dali
28. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Daniel Defoe
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
scrim
Verdi and Puccini
29. 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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30. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads
korai
Stephen Foster
William Wordsworth
Mary Shelley
31. Paralleled the age of roman literature under Augustus followed the greeks
Edvard Greig
Alfred Hitchcock
Poseidon/Neptune
Augustine Age
32. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
henry moore
Surrealism
bust
gouche
33. Noted for his direct style - clear - sharp prose and critical wit - Gulliver's Travels - Tale of a Tub
Jonathan Swift
Verdi and Puccini
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Lao Tzu
34. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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35. 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
andante
Edvard Greig
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Swift
36. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Twelve Tone System
Alexander Dumas
Chopin
Jules Verne
37. 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
Medieval Architecture
IM Pei
Leonardo da Vinci
Rembrandt
38. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
gothic age architecture
Stephen Foster
Satire
39. French impressionist painter
Plato
Monet
scrim
Serge Diaghilev
40. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Hera/Juno
Zeno
Seurat
multi-media
41. British abstract sculptor
Martha Graham
Hestia/Vesta
barbara hepworth
Greek Ionic
42. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice
Pilgrim's Progress
Jane Austen
Brussels tapestries
King Lear
43. Wrote Leviathan - and believed that human life on its own was 'solitary - poor - nasty - brutish - and short.' - argued for a strong - even brutal government in order to keep humanity from becoming savages.
Arthur Miller
T.S. Eliot
Christopher Wren
Thomas Hobbes
44. God of the Sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Renaissance Art
Irony
Neoclassicism
45. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pyrrhic Pattern
alexander calder
Lorraine Hansberry
46. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
French Romantic painter
Hector Berlioz
Brussels tapestries
sitar
47. Both describes the Chinese manner of thought - and a major Chinese religion - Largely adopted from Buddhism - Taoism incorporates many gods - the head of which is the Jade Emperor - with the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain serving as second-in-comman
Plato
Taoism
Verdi and Puccini
Giotto
48. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Renaissance Art
Romanesque Style
sculpture
Serge Diaghilev
49. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Dionysus/Bacchus
Claude Monet
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
tempura
50. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Pythagoras
sitar
Arthur Miller
Martha Graham
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