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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






2. French impressionistic; studied in Italy; became famous in his lifetime (see page 290). Structural form from the Romantics. By The SeaShore






3. The Color Purple






4. The oldest surviving complete illuminated gospel book in the insular style; probably created between 650-700 in Northumbria (northern England/southern Scotland)






5. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.






6. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.






7. Bessanio along with others are courting a girl - they have to pick a certain box - Bessanio picks the right one and is allowed to marry her






8. 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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9. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'






10. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language






11. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.






12. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship






13. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons

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14. The idea that matter is made out of atoms






15. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father






16. A dance






17. 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






18. Romantic novelist whose liberal social and political views underscore her work - Frankenstein - the Last Man






19. Short-Short






20. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






21. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband






22. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






23. Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement - _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona.






24. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas






25. God of Wine






26. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington






27. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'






28. God of the Underworld and Death






29. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






30. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers






31. French female author of more than eighty novels who took a man's name and dressed in male attire to protest the treatment of women






32. Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.






33. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael






34. Short-Short-Long






35. Famous artists: Henri Matisse - Raoul Dufy - and Andre Derain - Lasting for three short years (1905-1908) - fauvism served as the foundation for much of subsequent twentieth-century art. Its work was full of vibrant colors and boldly distorted figure






36. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






37. 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






38. It is assigning lines that have the same rhyme at the end - a matching letter.






39. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






40. Opaque watercolor






41. American Science Fiction writer..'Fahrenheit 451'






42. A radically unconventional group formed by Antisthenes in Greece in 400 A.D. This group considered virtue to be the only - not just the highest - good. They were largely self-sufficient - celibate (abstaining from sexual intercourse) - and ascetic (r






43. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






44. The language used to represent things - actions - or ideas - in a descriptive manner. Example: the brook - babbling and bubbling around rocks and stones.






45. 20th Century American composer






46. American composer; Adagio for Strings Abing; Chinese Music;The moon reflected on the second springs.






47. Was an iconic and highly influential British filmmaker and producer - who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres.






48. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






49. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






50. Long-Long