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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. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.






2. One unit of meter in poetry






3. African American author of the Harlem Renaissance.






4. Italian director that made films of fantasy and boroque style. 'La Dolce Vita'






5. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music






6. Court dances






7. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






8. French composer (born in Poland) and pianist of the romantic school. Known as the 'poet of the piano'






9. Published Phenomenology of Mind in 1807 and Philosophy of Right in 1821 - According to the Hegelian dialectic - one thought (i.e. being) invariably leads to a thought of its antithesis (not being) - and the two must come together to form an entirely






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






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






12. Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson






13. Repititions of geometric lines






14. Cow's Skull with Calico Roses

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15. Wrote 'The Three Musketeers' and 'The Man in the Iron Mask' and The Count of Monte-Cristo






16. Wrote 'Appalachian Spring'






17. American composer; Appalachian Spring;Fanfare for teh common man; Hoe Down;Americana; 10 honorary doctrine






18. Goddess of Wisdom






19. What type of Column is decorated with flowers?






20. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window






21. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style






22. Known for non-traditional forms of poetry - Tulips and Shimneys






23. God of Wine






24. Norwegian Playwright who carried realism into the dramatic presentation of domesticlife. Wrote 'A Doll's House'






25. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)






26. (1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)






27. The last phase of the Stone Age - marked by the domestication of animals - the development of agriculture - and the manufacture of pottery






28. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building






29. Leucippus and Democritus






30. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (All is change).






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






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






33. Protrayed the west by painting cowhands and natives






34. Spanish surrealist painter






35. Fast






36. Rebirth






37. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'






38. Born in 1508 - ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists - and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. His great architectural works include Villa Foscari - Teatro Olimpico - and Palazzo Chiericati -






39. 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.






40. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance






41. 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.






42. French 20th century architect






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






44. Painted 'The Bathers'






45. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses






46. French 20th century architect






47. Beautiful Italian singing






48. 1.Michelangelo 2.Leonardo de Vinci 3.Raphael






49. 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






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