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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. Realist novelist - Great Expectations - A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist - A Christmas Carol - The Pickwick Papers
Bronte Sisters
Henry Dixon Cowell
Picasso
Charles Dickens
2. Were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Known as the Bell Brothers..'Wuthering Heights'
Flying buttress
bel canto
Bronte Sisters
Honore de Balzac
3. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father
Hamlet
Leo Tolstoy
Lillian Gish
minuetto
4. Florentine genius of the early Renaissance built the dome of Florence Cathedral - the Pazzi Chapel - and was instrumental in developing geometrical perspective in painting
Penny Marshall
Stravinsky
Brunelleschi
tragic figure
5. Repititions of geometric lines
andante
Moliere (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)
Eugene Delacroix
American Indian Rugs
6. Story of a Great battle between Greece and Troy
neo-classic period
Aaron Copeland
Pythagoras
The Iliad
7. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Salvador Dali
Versailles
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mies van der Rohe
8. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Surrealism
Pythagoras
Lorraine Hansberry
Da Vinci
9. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Hagia Sophia
French Romantic painter
gothic age architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright
10. Female Movie Director/Producer who motivated women to do film...Big - A League of Their Own - Jumping Jack Flash
Brunelleschi
Penny Marshall
Merchant of Venice
Whole Tone Scale
11. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
Lillian Gish
neo-classic period
Degas
Jean Fragonard
12. What type of column is a simple - plain shaft?
Francois Rabelais
hagia sophia
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Greek Doric
13. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
pop art
minuetto
Renaissance
tragic figure
14. Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures
fresco
Mosaic
Eisenstein
Donatello
15. Architect who like a statue at every corner
The Iliad
Andrea Palladio
Cerros
Martha Graham
16. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Plato
Mark Twain
Soliloquy
D.W. Griffith
17. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
Mark Twain
Bayeux tapestry
Rene Descartes
Andrea Palladio
18. Russian Composer; Paris; Ballets; won acceptance from the public; Firebird; Petrouchka; The right of Spring; Master of rhythm
Serge Diaghilev
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
Flat
Gothic age architecture
19. British abstract sculptor
barbara hepworth
Aaron Copeland
Octometer
Handel
20. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Jules Verne
Bronte Sisters
Hector Berlioz
21. An imitation of the style identified with the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Usually associated with European art and literature from the mid-1600s through the eighteenth century.
soliloquy
Mathew Brady
Neoclassicism
Johannes Brahms
22. 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
Merry Wives of Windsor
minuetto
Maia/Fauna
Classical Period
23. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'
bel canto
Renoir
Thomas Edison
Federico Fellini
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.
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Frank Gehry 1929
Neoclassicism
Andrew Wyeth
25. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Peter Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
french female pose
Eugene O'Neil
Cimabue
26. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
What is the Rhyme Scheme?
Henrik Ibsen
James Joyce
Jane Austen
27. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Samuel Beckett
Thomas Edison
Daniel Defoe
Verdi and Puccini
28. He used light and shadows to convey moods and emotions-Painted the Blinding of Samson
Greek Ionic
neo-classic period
Rembrandt
Lionel Hampton
29. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Meter
Post and Lintel
Alfred Hitchcock
Pierre August Renoir 1841-1919
30. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Macbeth
Andre Previn
ballet
Seurat
31. Wrote 'Being and Time'. nfluenced by the work of Edmund Husserl and considered a founding father of existentialism - Heidegger ultimately rejected both associations. Instead - he focused simply on 'being' and examining human moods and experiences. He
Christopher Wren
Martin Heidegger
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Geoffrey Chaucer
32. French Painter - Post impressionism - pointellism (using several small dots of color to create a larger image)Sunday Afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte
Seurat
Edvard Greig
Stephen Crane
Scott Joplin
33. High quality rugs made by Persian Muslims - valued for their exquisite designs - vivid colors and skillful make. These rugs were in great demand from China to Europe - greatly improving the Abbasid's economy.
Persian Rugs
alexander calder
Ray Bradbury
Versailles
34. Long days journey into night - the iceman center - ah wilderness - desire under the elms - mourning become electric
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35. An English maker of pottery and china - he developed mass production of quality porcelain. Signature blue or pink with cameo inset.
Josiah Wedgewood
Samuel Beckett
Mies van der Rohe
Atomism
36. United States painter best known for his portraits of George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
Edmund Spenser
andante
Atomists
37. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives
Remington
Frank Lloyd Wright
Mark Twain
Lionel Hampton
38. A tapestry that recounts the battle of hastings - A piece of linen about 1 Ft.8 in. Wide by 213 ft.long covered with embroidery representing the incidents of Willam the conqueror's expedition to England.
michelangelo
Bayeux tapestry
Serialism
Henry Dixon Cowell
39. Place known for the earliest documented Jazz
Sergei Prokofiew 1891-1953
louise nevelson
Manichaeism
New Orleans
40. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Post and Lintel
Picasso
Poseidon/Neptune
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
41. Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Salvador Dali
Samuel Barber 1910-1981
Joseph Conrad
Da Vinci
42. In drama - a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Stravinsky
dada school
soliloquy
43. God of the sea
Zeus/Jupiter
Poseidon/Neptune
Thales
Serge Diaghilev
44. Twentieth-century novelist - used the stream-of-consciousness technique in his novel The Sound of Fury - whose intense drama is seen through the eyes of an idiot.
William Faulkner
Lillian Gish
Trimeter
Lillian Gish
45. A capella singers
madrigal
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
Pilgrim's Progress
High Renaissance
46. African American writer who wrote Oak and Ivy and about the lives of slavery
Qiu Ying 1494-1552
Mark Twain
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Confucianism
47. A sect of hedonism (Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure) that believes that pleasure of the mind - not just the senses - is the ultimate good. Thoroughly defended by Ancient Greek philosophers - the base of this belief system is that the goal of every
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Epicureans
John Locke
Vincent van Gogh
48. The basis for early Christian architecture; - created in the period of recognition - it had a dome shape at both ends similar to an apse - it had libaries - and it's official meaning was a meeting place in which the romans would meet to discuss thin
Theme
Peter Paul Rubens
Roman Basilica
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
49. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
Zeno
constantin brancusi
Langston Hughes
Hermes/Mercury
50. Considered the greatest English poet and dramatist -Hamlet - King Lear - Macbeth - Romeo and Juliet - Twelfth Night - Richard III - Julius Caesar - Much Ado
Ray Bradbury
mannerism
Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951
William Shakespeare
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