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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Pre-Socrates
Phoebus/Apollo
Renoir
mosaics
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
2. Stoics believed that restraining emotion is the key to happiness. The majority of their beliefs are similar to the Cynics.
Beethoven & Wagner
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Stoicism
Libretto
3. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Henrik Ibsen
bust
Tempura
Kshatriyas
4. Chiefly responsible for bringing literature to the middle-class - The Canterbury Tales
constantin brancusi
Geoffrey Chaucer
mannerism
The Panthenon
5. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
James Joyce
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Classical Period
Picasso
6. A style of art in the mid to late 16th century that permitted artists to express their own 'manner' or feelings in contrast to the symmetry and simplicity of the art of the High Renaissance.
Mannerism
Mark Twain
flying buttress
Dionysus/Bacchus
7. Pre-Socrates
Jean Fragonard
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Andrea Palladio
Jane Austen
8. Composed 'Symphonie Fantastique'
Hector Berlioz
Vermeer
Niccolo Machiavelli
Edgar Allen Poe
9. Art produced from c. 450 BC to c. 700 AD by the Celts; mostly portable objects; Stone carvings - Crosses with interlace patterns - metal work - manuscripts
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Confucianism
Surrealism
Celtic Art
10. One of the first to use cubism - painted 'The Old Guitar Player' (1905) - predominantly painted in blue tones
High Renaissance Painters
Bayeux tapestry
Delacroix
Pablo Picasso
11. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
Manhattan Project
William Faulkner
Sitar
Giotto
12. School of nonsense and anti-art
Barcelona Pavilion
Dada school
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Brussels tapestries
13. Leucippus and Democritus
renaissance
Cervantes
Monometer
Atomists
14. Action painting - put his canvas on the floor and brought his whole body into action while he splashed and dripped colors in swirling configurations
Bernini
Monet
Remington
Jackson Pollock
15. Tragic figure of the play - moorish general - desdemonas husband
Federico Fellini
Pentameter
Edvard Greig
Othello
16. Frank Lloyd Wright designed what?
Flat
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Issac Asimov
Guggenheim Museum
17. Flemish Baroque painter who had assistants complete parts of his work
Stravinsky
Peter Paul Rubens
Thales
Mies van der Rohe
18. A dance
Renaissance Art
Irony
minuetto
Ray Bradbury
19. Russian composer
Serge Diaghilev
Mathew Brady
Stravinsky
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
20. What does the symbol U mean in poetry?
Andrew Wyeth
A short syllable
Renoir
gothic age architecture
21. Caused considerable conflict over the years with his open expectation of the impending fall of humanity. He believed that humanity was inherently good - but once corrupted by civilization - there was no turning back.
presto
Andrew Wyeth
Issac Asimov
Jean Jacques Rousseau
22. A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Samuel Beckett
Flying buttresses
aside
Alfred Hitchcock
23. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Neo-classic period
Noh Theatre
sitar
alexander calder
24. French Post-impressionistic painter; moved to Tahiti to look for the unspoiled life. Mahana No Atua(Day of the Gods). He used flat - 2 dimensional surfaces with strong outlines.
Cervantes
Penny Marshall
Mark Twain
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
25. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
chalice
aside
Lorraine Hansberry
pop art
26. Norwegian composer. 'Peer Gynt'
Seurat
Edvard Greig
Aside
Joseph Conrad
27. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Pearl Buck
Romanesque Style
Hellenistic Period
tempura
28. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe
Serge Diaghilev
George Pierre Seurat 1859-1891
Moral Philosophers
Minimalist Music
29. Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
Tempura
mosaics
Moral Philosophers
Artemis/Diana
30. God of Marriage
Hera/Juno
Historians
Martin Heidegger
louise nevelson
31. A style characteristic of seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe - subjects of portraits expanded beyond religious figures to nature and ordinary individuals. Many paintings incorporated long hallways and views through windows or doorways.
Edmund Spenser
Simone Martini
Masaccio
Baroque Period
32. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'
Thomas Edison
allegro
Artemis/Diana
Hagia Sophia
33. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
soliloquy
Jean Jacques Rousseau
renaissance
Raphael
34. A curtain or drop made of gauzelike fabric. when lighted from the front it is opaque but is transparent if lighted from the back
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Alice Walker
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Scrim
35. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys
Arthur Miller
Josiah Wedgewood
E.E. Cummings
allegro
36. Short-Short
T.S. Eliot
Pyrrhic Pattern
Anapestic Pattern
Baroque art
37. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk
Georg W. F. Hegel
Tempura
Bayeux tapestry
Charles Dickens
38. Writer of 'This Side of Paradise' and 'The Great Gatsby' who coined the term 'Jazz Age'
Pilgrim's Progress
michelangelo
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rene Descartes
39. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Phoebus/Apollo
Chopin
Jean Jacques Rousseau
40. 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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41. Style of art that attempts to portray the imagery of the subconscious mind
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Charles Dickens
Surrealism
Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Frank Gehry 1929
renaissance
Post and Lintel
Renaissance
43. God of Wine and Theatre
Aaron Copeland
fresco
Dionysus/Bacchus
Georg W. F. Hegel
44. Repititions of geometric lines
Renaissance Art
American Indian Rugs
Eugene O'Neil
Samuel Beckett
45. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Mary McCarthy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Joseph Conrad
46. God of rain - clouds - thunderbolts.
Onomatopoeia
Vermeer
Zeus/Jupiter
Blank Verse
47. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Reliquary
Theme
Da Vinci
Historians
48. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Handel
Stephen Foster
barbara hepworth
John Locke
49. Long-Short
flat
El Greco
Trochaic pattern
Pyrrhic Pattern
50. One of Duncan's generals; wants to become King of Scotland; murders Duncan and slays anyone in the way of his kingship
Pavane and the Polonaise
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Macbeth
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951