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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. God of Love






2. Goddess of Agriculture






3. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'






4. Most famous example of Byzantine architecture - it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.






5. Goddess of Hunting






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






7. Impressionistic Music






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






9. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?






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






11. 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






12. Beuatiful with ornate borders






13. Russian romantic composer; 4 piano concerti; Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini; Vocalise; called the last Romantic






14. DNA of the song






15. Free-standing statues of nude male youths






16. French landscape painter - artist of 'Dusk' (1908) - considered to be one of the founders of impressionism






17. 698-721. hiberno-saxon. mix of christian imagery & northern animal interlace style. classical style: curtain






18. Goddess of Animals






19. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting






20. American transcendentalist - Moby Dick - Bill Budd






21. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures






22. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn






23. 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.






24. Author of The Red Badge of Courage






25. Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)






26. An epic is a longer poem written in lofty style - presenting characters of high social class in a series of adventures. It is tied to one hero of epic proportions - yet the entire poem details the history of a nation or race. Example: the Odyssey and






27. Wrote Rivals






28. Goddess of Love and Beauty






29. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz






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






31. American realist painter - 'Christina's World'






32. Long-Short






33. Wrote Anna Karenina - War and Peace; Russian writer - realistic fiction






34. The repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry






35. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






36. Famous artists: El Greco - Jacopo Tintoretto - and Antoine Caron - An Italian art form from 1520-1600 - the mannerism movement sought to go against the strict proportionality of the High Renaissance by deliberately skewing scales and figures - with h






37. Poetry that rhymes at the end of lines






38. Principally known for novels of manners and middle class English society - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice






39. Who is the architect of this building? (Uses glass walls - abstract - etc.)






40. Wrote Pride and Prejudice






41. Science fiction writer






42. French impressionist painter






43. Made the first talking movie in 1927..The 'Jazz Singer'






44. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture






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






46. Abstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail






47. Atomic Bomb - Robert Openheimer was in charge






48. An artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art






49. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies






50. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)