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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Book of Durrow
Persian Rugs
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Delacroix
2. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Leo Tolstoy
Shudras
Serialism
3. A dance
Libretto
minuetto
Charles Dickens
Jonathan Swift
4. A capella singers
Lorraine Hansberry
George Sand
Christopher Wren
madrigal
5. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
aside
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Merry Wives of Windsor
Theme
6. Late 20th century musical style in which brief patterns - textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Minimalist Music
Thales
sitar
Victor Hugo
7. God of Wine and Theatre
Chopin
Gouche
Socrates
Dionysus/Bacchus
8. Visual artist and poet who defined neoclassical convention - Songs of Innocence - Songs of Cxperience
William Blake
Samuel Beckett
Christopher Wren
Jean Jacques Rousseau
9. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -
chalice
Trompe l'oeil
Andrea Palladio
multi-media
10. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Iambic pattern
Langston Hughes
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Kronos/Saturn
11. Goddess of Marriage
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Hera/Juno
Libretto
Serialism
12. 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
Lillian Gish
Peter Paul Rubens
Lillian Gish
Plato
13. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Claude Debussy
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Brussels tapestries
fresco
14. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes
Didactic-ism
Tragic Playwrights
constantin brancusi
Francois Rabelais
15. Consists of lines that do not have regular meter or rhyme
Free Verse
Dionysus/Bacchus
Andre Previn
Edvard Greig
16. Wrote Rivals
Alfred Hitchcock
Richard Sheridan
michelangelo
Vermeer
17. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Stephen Crane
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Federico Fellini
18. Assembled architectural sculptures of 'found' wooden objects and used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
louise nevelson
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Macbeth
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
19. Spanish surrealist painter
Scrim
Denouement
Salvador Dali
Joan Miro
20. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses
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21. 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
Mary Wollstonecraft
Herman Melville
soliloquy
renaissance
22. Spanish surrealist painter
Raphael
Monometer
Post Impressionism
Joan Miro
23. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
michelangelo
Pallas Athena/Minerva
Gouche
fresco
24. Death of a Salesman
Pavane and the Polonaise
King Lear
Arthur Miller
Pythagoras
25. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Da Vinci
Pilgrim's Progress
The Pigeon House
26. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Tchaikovsky
New Orleans
Giotto
Degas
27. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
allegro
Georgia O'Keefe
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
28. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
Merchant of Venice
ballet
tempura
F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Persian Rugs
Andre Previn
presto
allegro
30. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Bronte Sisters
Merchant of Venice
sculpture
Kronos/Saturn
31. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'
Augustine Age
Ray Bradbury
Baroque art
Church of San Vitale
32. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
King Lear
Parmenides
Hector Berlioz
Buddhists
33. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
alexander calder
Romanticism Movement
34. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Mannerism
pop art
Andrew Wyeth
Parmenides
35. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Cimabue
Federico Fellini
Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
Zeus/Jupiter
36. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.
Cerros
William Shakespeare
Seurat
Arthur Miller
37. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Church of San Vitale
William Shakespeare
Othello
Picasso
38. Designed by Mayans - this was once a temple - next to the Pyramid of Sacrifice. Located at Uxmal - it was used for sacrificial ceremonies as late as 1673.
The Pigeon House
Tchaikovsky
Heraclitus
Vermeer
39. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Joan Miro
Martha Graham
Claude Debussy
Irony
40. Slow
Atomism
Lindisfarne Gospel
andante
Dimeter
41. Played the xylophone and marimba
Tchaikovsky
Lionel Hampton
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The Parthenon
42. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking domes.
Fauvism
Baroque Period
obelisk
hagia sophia
43. Goddess of Love and Beauty
Epic
Aphrodite/Venus
gouche
Victor Hugo
44. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Eugene O'Neil
Langston Hughes
Onomatopoeia
Neoplatonism
45. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Dante Aligheri
Degas
Issac Asimov
Victor Hugo
46. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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47. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Donatello
Popular Transcendentalists
Phoebus/Apollo
48. Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
D.W. Griffith
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
Barcelona Pavilion
49. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
neo-classic period
ballet
Delacroix
50. What does the symbol ' mean in poetry?
A long syllable
Da Vinci
Noh Theatre
Renaissance Art