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CLEP Humanities All In One

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Four-foot line






2. Painted 'The Bathers'






3. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel






4. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder






5. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






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






7. Georges Pierre Seurat






8. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'






9. School of nonsense and anti-art






10. 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






11. Faulstaf wants sends identical love letters to two women - they are friends and read them together - they want to get him back so they trick him - their husbands think they are cheating on them so they want to catch them - the wives tell them of thei






12. Scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas






13. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.






14. Science fiction writer






15. The Mayans built their first temple in ____________.






16. German philosopher born in 1844 - More of a moralist than a philosopher (though his name is arguably the most widely recognized) - Nietzsche hated Western civilization with a passion and spent much of his time denouncing it. He believed in a superma






17. Real name was Domenicos Theotocopoulos - Much of his work expressed religious ecstasy - and El Greco painted many revealing works of devoted ascetics - most notable of which was Burial of the Count Orgaz. An expressionist - his work often included fl






18. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)






19. 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






20. The Color Purple






21. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






22. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






23. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts






24. God of the sea






25. French 20th century architect






26. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes






27. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






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






29. Wrote Two Treatises on Government - also published An Essay Concerning Human Understanding to outline the principles of empiricism.






30. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






31. Beautiful Italian singing






32. Goddess of the Hearth - the Home and the Roman state






33. 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.






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






35. A pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of time - plurality - and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.






36. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






37. Libertine whose focused prose - Social Contract






38. Poetry written in iambic pentameter without end rhyme






39. Spanish surrealist painter






40. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage






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






42. Plato and Aristotle






43. Former monk. French humanist - wrote the comic masterpieces Gargantua and Pantagruel - stories contained gross humor.






44. Wrote operas






45. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






46. Death of a Salesman






47. Opaque watercolor






48. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery






49. Spanish surrealist painter






50. Long-Long