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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Wrote Billy Budd - Sailor; Moby Dick; classified as a Dark Romantic; American novelist - short story writer - essayist - and poet
Herman Melville
Stephen Foster
Martha Graham
Post Impressionism
2. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
James Boswell
Zeno
Tetrameter
3. Members of the highest caste in Hinduism
Henry Dixon Cowell
Brahmans
Donatello
Pablo Picasso
4. Court dances
Jean Fragonard
Tchaikovsky
Pavane and the Polonaise
Hans-Georg Gadamer
5. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'
Atomists
Charles Dickens
Henrik Ibsen
Jean Fragonard
6. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
T.S. Eliot
henry moore
Gilbert Stuart
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
7. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
henry moore
Merchant of Venice
King Lear
Thomas Hobbes
8. The text of the opera
Libretto
Gouche
Andre Previn
constantin brancusi
9. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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10. 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.
Hamlet
obelisk
Samuel Beckett
Rhymed Verse
11. French Painter - Impressionism - did horses and ballet dancers
Degas
french female pose
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Pieta
12. artist of Return of the Prodigal Son (1636) - Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) - Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer (1653) - and The Night Watch - Showed a particular interest in painting the poor and downtrodden - considered the best Dutch
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Andrew Wyeth
King Lear
Stephen Crane
13. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Chopin
Giotto
Penny Marshall
William Shakespeare
14. Fast
Francisco Goya 1746-1828
presto
multi-media
Gilbert and Sullivan
15. The warrior caste in Hinduism
Foot
Mathew Brady
Mark Twain
Kshatriyas
16. The Color Purple
Manhattan Project
Kronos/Saturn
Alice Walker
barbara hepworth
17. 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
Herman Melville
Francois Rabelais
Johannes Brahms
18. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren
Symbolism
Meter
ballet
19. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Tempura
Versailles
mosaics
Stephen Foster
20. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Verdi and Puccini
Noh Theatre
Stephen Foster
Neolithic
21. 20th Century American composer
Henry Dixon Cowell
Immanuel Kant
Pyrrhic Pattern
Charles Dickens
22. English novelist - Great Expectations - Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Vermeer
Joseph Conrad
Martin Heidegger
23. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
Handel
Jonathan Swift
Bolero
Eros/Cupid
24. Artist of 'Liberty Leading People' (1831) and 'The Massacre of Chios' (1824) - Known for his dramatic imagery
Mannerism
Mary Shelley
Beethoven & Wagner
Eugene Delacroix
25. Architectural style of medieval Europe - characterized by semi-circular arches - massive quality - thick walls - round arches - sturdy piers - groin vaults - large towers - decorative arcading. Crossed England from France.
Mathew Brady
Pythagoras
Romanesque Style
Libretto
26. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Langston Hughes
multi-media
Herman Melville
Reliquary
27. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Thomas Edison
Verdi and Puccini
constantin brancusi
28. Three dimensional work of art - statue
sculpture
Classical Period
Da Vinci
Salvador Dali
29. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Remington
Niccolo Machiavelli
Georgia O'Keefe
Othello
30. God of Fire - the Forge and Blacksmiths
Foot
Scott Joplin
bel canto
Hephaestus/Vulcan
31. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Herman Melville
Victor Hugo
Serge Diaghilev
32. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
gouche
Hagia Sophia
Mary Shelley
Salvador Dali
33. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Edmund Spenser
Delacroix
Langston Hughes
John Roebling
34. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Pearl Buck
Noh Theatre
hagia sophia
Eugene Delacroix
35. Long-Long
Lorraine Hansberry
Vermeer
Spondaic Pattern
Corinthian
36. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Salvador Dali
Jane Austen
Mary Wollstonecraft
Flying buttress
37. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Ares/Mars
michelangelo
Issac Asimov
Lillian Gish
38. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Mosaic
Honore de Balzac
Rembrandt
Mary McCarthy
39. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. i.e. hiss - hiss - buzz - buzz.
Onomatopoeia
Andrew Wyeth
Mary Wollstonecraft
andante
40. The central or dominating idea of a work.
multi-media
Beethoven & Wagner
Alfred Hitchcock
Theme
41. God of Doors and beginnings and endings
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Andrea Palladio
Thomas Edison
Andrea Palladio
42. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
New Orleans
Joseph Conrad
Bolero
Al Jolson
43. Famous for black and white erotic paintings
Aubrey Beardsley
Taoism
Da Vinci
Persian Rugs
44. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Serge Diaghilev
Aubrey Beardsley
Eisenstein
Noh Theatre
45. Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material
Mary Shelley
Transcendentalism
Jane Austen
Leonardo da Vinci
46. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
D.W. Griffith
Claude Debussy 1862-1918
Mathew Brady
Simone De Beauvoir
47. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Charles Dickens
Penny Marshall
Fauvism
John Locke
48. Italian sculptor renowned as a pioneer of the Renaissance style with his natural - lifelike figures - such as the bronze statue David.
George Sand
Donatello
Niccolo Machiavelli
Andrea Palladio
49. God of the underworld - and wealth
Hades/Pluto
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Cynics
New Orleans
50. Greek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers (Plato).
Manhattan Project
Socrates
Buddhists
Renaissance Art