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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
Salvador Dali
Issac Asimov
constantin brancusi
2. Late 20th century style in which brief patter is textures - and other musical fragments are repeated for an extended period of time with trance-like persistence.
Vermeer
Pentatonic Scale
Minimalist Music
Andrea Palladio
3. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Socrates
Issac Asimov
Remington
Obelisk
4. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.
Book of Kells
Salvador Dali
Aphrodite/Venus
Alfred Hitchcock
5. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Honore de Balzac
A long syllable
cellini
tragic figure
6. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract
Classical Period
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Richard Sheridan
Surrealism
7. 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
William Shakespeare
neo-classic period
Jonathan Swift
Johannes Brahms
8. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Vincent van Gogh
neo-classic period
flying buttress
9. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Henry Dixon Cowell
Victor Hugo
Merry Wives of Windsor
The Panthenon
10. Modernist poet and theorist - The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Gilbert and Sullivan
Georgia O'Keefe
Art Deco Movement
11. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr
William Wordsworth
Moai
Benjamin Franklin
Monet
12. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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13. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Brussels tapestries
Kronos/Saturn
Bolero
F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
Zeno
Hamlet
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Bolero
15. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall
Fresco
Apollo
barbara hepworth
Vermeer
16. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
Chopin
Poseidon/Neptune
Victor Hugo
Eugene Delacroix
17. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Thomas Edison
Leonardo da Vinci
Socrates
Jules Verne
18. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Free Verse
Jonathan Swift
Hermes/Mercury
19. Novelist who won Nobel Peace prize - advanced humanitarian causes. 'Americans in China'
Delacroix
Joan Miro
IM Pei
Pearl Buck
20. Opaque watercolor
Eisenstein
Edgar Allen Poe
Bolero
gouche
21. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
James Boswell
Eisenstein
Langston Hughes
Pilgrim's Progress
22. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Bayeux tapestry
Francesco Petrarch
T.S. Eliot
Martha Graham
23. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
James Boswell
Flying buttress
Mark Twain
Georg W. F. Hegel
24. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
John Roebling
Joseph Conrad
Peter Paul Rubens
Jonathan Swift
25. 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
Seurat
Kronos/Saturn
Reliquary
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
26. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Herman Melville
Persian Rugs
Dactylic
A short syllable
27. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hades/Pluto
Jules Verne
Ares/Mars
28. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
Alfred Hitchcock
Mary Wollstonecraft
pieta
29. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.
madrigal
Lorraine Hansberry
T.S. Eliot
Andre Previn
30. British abstract sculptor
Chalice
barbara hepworth
James Boswell
Chopin
31. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'
Aaron Copeland
Jane Austen
Degas
Seurat
32. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Honore de Balzac
Lillian Gish
cellini
Stephen Crane
33. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Rene Descartes
Niccolo Machiavelli
Flat
Merchant of Venice
34. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
Edmund Spenser
Federico Fellini
Richard Sheridan
Islam
35. Composed 'Rite of Spring'
Federico Fellini
Stravinsky
Simone De Beauvoir
Post and Lintel
36. Is the belief that Satan represented all things material - and God all things of light; each human being is a composite of matter (Satan) and godly light (God) - and suffered not from sin - but from contact with matter. Founded by Mani Who believed h
Manichaeism
Bronte Sisters
Mary Shelley
Christopher Marlowe
37. I and the Village
Christopher Wren
Marc Chagall
Popular Transcendentalists
T.S. Eliot
38. Opaque watercolor
Andrew Wyeth
gouche
Lillian Gish
Henry Dixon Cowell
39. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
A short syllable
Arthur Miller
Christopher Wren
T.S. Eliot
40. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.
Christopher Wren
Christopher Marlowe
New Orleans
Francois Rabelais
41. Instead of dealing with recognizable imagery - abstract art focuses on colors and form.
Confucianism
Antonio Gaudi
James Boswell
Abstraction
42. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Greek Doric
Alexander Dumas
Serialism
Richard Sheridan
43. Wrote 'Frankenstein' which was a criticism of man controlling nature - 'Gothic literature' Daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft
Seurat
Delacroix
Mary Shelley
Da Vinci
44. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
flying buttress
Jane Austen
Salvador Dali
Thomas Gainsborough
45. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Henry Dixon Cowell
Monometer
Surrealism
T.S. Eliot
46. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.
Jules Verne
Christopher Wren
Thomas Edison
Claude Debussy
47. British abstract sculptor
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Renaissance Art
barbara hepworth
Pythagoras
48. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
Remington
tragic figure
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Persian Rugs
49. Church in Ravenna - Italy built by Justinian. Known for color - mosaics - and gold.
Pieta
Church of San Vitale
dada school
Mary Shelley
50. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
aside
Remington
Heraclitus