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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Christopher Wren
Da Vinci
E.E. Cummings
Donatello
2. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
Pilgrim's Progress
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Mark Twain
Andrea Palladio
3. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
neo-classic period
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Aristotle
Arthur Miller
4. British abstract sculptor
King Lear
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
barbara hepworth
Joseph Conrad
5. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
aside
Le Corbusier
michelangelo
Bernini
6. Famous artists: Jean-Francois Millet - Eugene Delacroix - J.M.W. Turner - and William Blake - Covering the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries - the works of this period stressed the inherent goodness in humanity and shied away from earlier
Popular Transcendentalists
Francois Rabelais
Seurat
Romanticism Movement
7. Early 20th century style of painting and to a lesser degrees sculpture that used geometric shapes as underlying primary forms. In contrast to Impressionism - which it succeeded - the primary concern of Cubism was with from rather than color
Hyperbole
Cubism
Pilgrim's Progress
Monometer
8. One unit of meter in poetry
Foot
Denouement
William Wordsworth
Henri Matisse
9. French Impressionistic composer; Bolero: Gaspard de la nuit; 3 pieces to it (on Dine) 1st piece of Gaspar
Seurat
The Pigeon House
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Georgia O'Keeffe
10. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Charles Dickens
Ray Bradbury
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11. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
fresco
Brunelleschi
The Parthenon
Eisenstein
12. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'
Aristotle
Chopin
Reliquary
T.S. Eliot
13. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943
Pablo Picasso
Thomas Hobbes
William Shakespeare
14. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Beethoven & Wagner
Vincent van Gogh
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Joseph Conrad
15. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
King Lear
John Roebling
Lorraine Hansberry
George Sand
16. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Christopher Wren
Mary Shelley
Botticelli
John Locke
17. Pre-Socrates
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Bronte Sisters
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Delacroix
18. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
IM Pei
Bronte Sisters
Samuel Beckett
Post and Lintel
19. God of the underworld - and wealth
Hades/Pluto
Hermes/Mercury
Moai
Mary Shelley
20. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson
Jonathan Swift
James Boswell
Thales
James Joyce
21. Spanish surrealist painter
louise nevelson
Romanticism Movement
Joan Miro
Poseidon/Neptune
22. 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).
William Faulkner
Heraclitus
Apostrophe
Jean Fragonard
23. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Renoir
Hera/Juno
Mary Shelley
Salvador Dali
24. Spanish Romantic Painter - Disaster of war series - Third Day of May - Rembrandt influence - moral issues - court painter to Charles IV
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francesco Petrarch
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
Hamlet
25. Part of the Counter Reformation. Displayed a religious theme - red and gold color scheme - dark (sinner) vs. light (saint) - and was intensely dramatic. Early Baroque art was dominated by Spain.
Vermeer
Baroque art
Le Corbusier
Eisenstein
26. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Frank Lloyd Wright
Issac Asimov
aside
Christopher Marlowe
27. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
constantin brancusi
Arthur Miller
28. I and the Village
louise nevelson
Beethoven & Wagner
Marc Chagall
Giotto
29. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Tragic Playwrights
Rene Descartes
fresco
Atomism
30. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Edmund Spenser
Simile
Alexander Dumas
Arthur Miller
31. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)
Gothic age architecture
IM Pei
Mozart and Richard Strauss
fresco
32. Decorative drinking cup or goblet
Honore de Balzac
Gilbert Stuart
Chalice
Artemis/Diana
33. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Andrea Palladio
Mary Shelley
Stravinsky
Da Vinci
34. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
Edvard Greig
Marc Chagall
T.S. Eliot
Handel
35. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Free Verse
Roman Basilica
Gilbert Stuart
Imagery
36. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
chalice
Serge Diaghilev
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Renoir
37. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'
Tempura
Cervantes
Eugene O'Neil
Al Jolson
38. Student of michelangelo - made the school of athens - and the madonna and child series. used pudgeyness to show that people aren't as perfect as they thought.
The Parthenon
Raphael
Andre Previn
Leo Tolstoy
39. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Edvard Greig
Charles Dickens
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
alexander calder
40. Rebirth
Richard Sheridan
El Greco
renaissance
Flat
41. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Doric
Joan Miro
gothic age architecture
Islam
42. Goldsmith and sculptor - wrote one of the first autobiographies
Geoffrey Chaucer
Macbeth
cellini
aside
43. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Mary McCarthy
Picasso
Arthur Miller
mosaics
44. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.
Antonio Gaudi
bel canto
Francois Rabelais
Giotto
45. God of the Sea
Brunelleschi
pieta
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Poseidon/Neptune
46. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Reliquary
Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Paul Rubens
James Joyce
47. God of Love
Trochaic pattern
Eros/Cupid
James Joyce
Issac Asimov
48. Impressionistic Music
Cimabue
Impressionistic Art came before
Donatello
tragic figure
49. God of the sea
Poseidon/Neptune
Martha Graham
Jonathan Swift
Mies van der Rohe
50. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Alfred Hitchcock
Le Corbusier
High Renaissance Painters
Artemis/Diana