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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Christopher Wren
Edmund Spenser
Vincent van Gogh
Delacroix
2. Wrote Robinson Crusoe; known as the father of the English novel
Buddhists
gouche
Pavane and the Polonaise
Daniel Defoe
3. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
American Indian Rugs
John Roebling
Giotto
Renaissance Art
4. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
Greek Ionic
Ares/Mars
Da Vinci
Mary Wollstonecraft
5. A sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
Raphael
Edmund Spenser
bust
Plato
6. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Moai
Samuel Beckett
Mathew Brady
George Sand
7. American who became a British citizen; won the Nobel Peace prize in literature; wrote poetry and drama. 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
Charles Dickens
Joan Miro
T.S. Eliot
Le Corbusier
8. Author of The Red Badge of Courage
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Tchaikovsky
Hamlet
Stephen Crane
9. Made a valuable contribution to American folk music by capturing the plaintive spirit of the slaves. 'Camptown Races'
Jackson Pollock
Stephen Foster
Richard Sheridan
Pythagoras
10. A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers. Originally based on court dance
ballet
Rembrandt
Degas
Johannes Brahms
11. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Aaron Copeland 1900-1990
Frank Lloyd Wright
Reliquary
Honore de Balzac
12. Character who comes to a bad end as a result of own behavior or character flaw
tragic figure
Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Miller
John Dryden
13. Ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno
Botticelli
Maurice Ravel 1875-1937
Mozart and Richard Strauss
14. Author of Faerie Queene in Elizabethan era - one of the greatest moral epics in any language
Paleolithic
Edmund Spenser
George Sand
Thomas Edison
15. God of Wine and Theatre
Alice Walker
louise nevelson
Dionysus/Bacchus
Henrik Ibsen
16. The text of the opera
Heraclitus
Chopin
American Indian Rugs
Libretto
17. Fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
Langston Hughes
Heraclitus
Rococo
Vermeer
18. Six tone octave scale in which all successive tones are a whole step apart.
Vaishyas
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Whole Tone Scale
Pearl Buck
19. Leucippus and Democritus
French Romantic painter
Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Thales
Atomists
20. Subject is lying down away from the artist and looking over her shoulder
Lorraine Hansberry
aside
french female pose
mosaics
21. An Irish novelist who wrote Ulysses - a stream of consciousness book based loosely on Odyssey
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Heraclitus
Church of San Vitale
James Joyce
22. Foremost architect of Baroque - Ecstasy of St. Theresa - David - Apollo and Daphne - Aeneas
No Greek Equivalent/Janus
Hector Berlioz
Othello
Bernini
23. Theodore Gericault - 1791-1824 - Eugene Delacroix - 1798-1863
multi-media
French Romantic painter
Bernini
mosaics
24. Beuatiful with ornate borders
Brussels tapestries
Federico Fellini
Le Corbusier
mannerism
25. Thucydides and Herodotus
Historians
Mathew Brady
Jean Fragonard
Aside
26. American novelist - essayist and satirist - Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer
Le Corbusier
Brussels tapestries
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Christopher Wren
27. German composer who developed the Romantic style of both lyrical and classical music
Imagery
Johannes Brahms
Hera/Juno
Brussels tapestries
28. Wrote 'The Human Comedy'
Simone De Beauvoir
Honore de Balzac
Arnold Schoenberg
Sitar
29. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
louise nevelson
Mozart and Richard Strauss
pieta
neo-classic period
30. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
Hexameter
Johannes Brahms
Reliquary
High Renaissance
31. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Jane Austen
Niccolo Machiavelli
Scott Joplin
Alexander Dumas
32. One of the leading painters of the Florentine renaissance - developed a highly personal style. The Birth of Venus
Pythagoras
American Indian Rugs
Tyche/Fortuna
Botticelli
33. Student of Martin Heidegger - wrote 'Truth and Method' - considered to be the father of Hermeneutics - largely argued that it is impossible to be unbiased in anything - and even historical accounts are forever biased by our own experiences. As factua
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lillian Gish
Phoebus/Apollo
flying buttress
34. American Playwright: The Crucible; Death of a Salesman; All My Sons
Hephaestus/Vulcan
Salvador Dali
Arthur Miller
James Joyce
35. United States film actress who appeared in films by D. W. Griffith (1896-1993)
William Shakespeare
Andrea Palladio
Lillian Gish
William Shakespeare
36. Both wrote music based on Don Juan
Mozart and Richard Strauss
Alfred Hitchcock
Bronte Sisters
Meter
37. Refers to the classical revival in European art - architecture - and interior design that lasted from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century
Post and Lintel
T.S. Eliot
neo-classic period
Atomists
38. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?
John Roebling
Tchaikovsky
Spondaic Pattern
korai
39. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Richard Sheridan
Atomism
Bronte Sisters
Salvador Dali
40. 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.
Rembrandt
Modern Period
William Faulkner
John Locke
41. 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.
Leonardo da Vinci
Atomism
William Faulkner
Trimeter
42. A classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes - a chorus - and dance
Noh Theatre
Paul Gaugin 1848-1903
Rococo
Georgia O'Keefe
43. Pen name of the novelist and humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Pavane and the Polonaise
barbara hepworth
Mark Twain
44. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
William Shakespeare
bust
Simone De Beauvoir
Pentatonic Scale
45. Painted 'The Bathers'
Jean Fragonard
Pearl Buck
Le Corbusier
Kronos/Saturn
46. Took inspiration from Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'
Beethoven & Wagner
Mary Wollstonecraft
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte
Simile
47. British abstract sculptor
Romanticism Movement
constantin brancusi
Antonio Gaudi
barbara hepworth
48. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Hector Berlioz
Demeter/Ceres
Daniel Defoe
flying buttress
49. One of the first women of Impressionist painters; Young Girl by the Window
James Joyce
Berthe Morisot 1841-1895
Frank Lloyd Wright
obelisk
50. Tall - 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hermes/Mercury
mannerism
obelisk