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CLEP Humanities All In One
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Architect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
Edvard Greig
Imagery
Dionysus/Bacchus
Christopher Wren
2. Fast
Mosaic
presto
Tragic Playwrights
Jane Austen
3. Played the xylophone and marimba
Lionel Hampton
Henry Dixon Cowell
Hexameter
Macbeth
4. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Ares/Mars
King Lear
5. Spanish surrealist painter
Joan Miro
Mathew Brady
T.S. Eliot
ballet
6. Five-foot line
Frank Lloyd Wright
Langston Hughes
Beethoven & Wagner
Pentameter
7. French 20th century architect
Trompe l'oeil
Le Corbusier
Remington
soliloquy
8. 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
Bayeux tapestry
Pearl Buck
Honore de Balzac
9. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Dactylic
Kronos/Saturn
Richard Sheridan
Atomism
10. 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.
Arthur Miller
Impressionistic Art came before
Claude Monet
hagia sophia
11. Rebirth
renaissance
mosaics
Jane Austen
Claude Monet
12. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael
Medieval Architecture
Penny Marshall
Mahana No Atua (Day of Gods)
High Renaissance Painters
13. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
Eugene O'Neil
pop art
Shudras
Jane Austen
14. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.
Obelisk
Macbeth
Salvador Dali 1904-1989
Jackson Pollock
15. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Lorraine Hansberry
flying buttress
Zeno
Jane Austen
16. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Dante Aligheri
Delacroix
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
Alice Walker
17. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who was betrayed and mistreated by two of his scheming daughters
flat
King Lear
gouche
Post Impressionism
18. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution
American Indian Rugs
Penny Marshall
Victor Hugo
michelangelo
19. Impressionistic Music
Pablo Picasso
Impressionistic Art came before
Penny Marshall
IM Pei
20. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Pieta
James Boswell
Flying buttress
Pearl Buck
21. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Alexander Dumas
Roman Basilica
minuetto
22. Popular in the 1920s and 30s - art deco work contains geometric three-dimensional forms and curvy surfaces. Subjects are typically men and women from high society jazz age.
Art Deco Movement
flying buttress
Allegory
Scott Joplin
23. Three dimensional work of art - statue
Tetrameter
The Pigeon House
sculpture
sitar
24. Court dances
Pavane and the Polonaise
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Fresco
Niccolo Machiavelli
25. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?
Cerros
Jean Fragonard
Greek Corinthian
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
26. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time
mosaics
Bolero
William Faulkner
Alfred Hitchcock
27. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)
A long syllable
French female pose
Simone Martini
Lorraine Hansberry
28. Story of man - Christian - journey faces hobglobins/dragons
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29. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Francesco Petrarch
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Benjamin Franklin
James Boswell
30. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Stephen Crane
Thales
Hector Berlioz
Aubrey Beardsley
31. Architect; Guggenheim museum Spain branch; see figure 14.19 on page 366
Frank Gehry 1929
Gilbert Stuart
Victor Hugo
minuetto
32. Famous French impressionist composer
Martha Graham
French female pose
Aristotle
Claude Debussy
33. The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
Mary McCarthy
Imagery
34. A musical composition for voices and orchestra
oratorio
pop art
William Wordsworth
Merry Wives of Windsor
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
Fauvism
Noh Theatre
Alfred Hitchcock
Masaccio
36. One unit of meter in poetry
Persian Rugs
Personification
Langston Hughes
Foot
37. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.
sitar
Twelve Tone System
William Wordsworth
Rene Descartes
38. 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.
El Greco
Samuel Beckett
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Classical Period
39. Pre-Socrates
Edmund Spenser
Alfred Hitchcock
michelangelo
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
40. Opaque watercolor
Gouche
aside
Degas
Brussels tapestries
41. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Jane Austen
Noh Theatre
George Sand
tempura
42. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Flying buttresses
New Orleans
Tragic Playwrights
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
43. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'
Andrew Wyeth
Renoir
pop art
El Greco
44. A capella singers
dada school
madrigal
Christopher Wren
William Faulkner
45. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Picasso
dada school
Zeus/Jupiter aka Jove
46. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.
Popular Transcendentalists
Irony
Edmund Spenser
Hagia Sophia
47. British abstract sculptor
Delacroix
barbara hepworth
Dionysus/Bacchus
Atomists
48. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
John Roebling
American Indian Rugs
Ares/Mars
Lorraine Hansberry
49. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.
Delacroix
alexander calder
Hector Berlioz
Sitar
50. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
aside
Samuel Beckett
Beethoven & Wagner
Bronte Sisters