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CLEP Humanities All In One

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Romantic poet who broke with neoclassical theory in much of his mature poetry - The Prelude - Lyrical Ballads






2. Spanish surrealist painter






3. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings






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






5. Wrote the play 'A Raisin in the Sun' about a working-class African American family struggling against poverty and racism.






6. Paint onto wet plaster on a wall






7. Italian painter - engineer - musician - and scientist. The most versatile genius of the Renaissance - filled notebooks with engineering and scientific observations that were in some cases centuries ahead of their time. As a painter he is best known f






8. Artist of 'Jack in the Pulpit IV' (1930) - 'Petunia' (1925) - 'Cow's Skull - Red - White - and Blue' (1931) - and 'Red Amaryllis' (1937) - Realistic nature images with strong - vibrant colors identify the works of O'Keeffe

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9. The ranaissance artist who led the way in establishing a new style of employing deep space - modeling - and anatomical correctness.






10. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'






11. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India






12. Founded by the prophet Mohammad - Followers - called Muslims - go by the book of the Qur'an - the word of God as told to Mohammed. There are five basic principles to Islam: first - there is only one God - and Mohammed is the only mouthpiece of God; s






13. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)






14. Known for ragtime music - piano player. Composed 'The Entertainment'






15. Euripidedes - Aeschylus - and Sophodes






16. The 'old' stone age - during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings






17. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






18. Wrote 'Les Miserables' which criticized the French Revolution






19. Created the motion picture titled 'The Kiss'






20. Carried the motion picture into the new era with his silent epics (The Birth of a Nation - Intolerance - etc.) which introduced serious plots and elaborate productions to filmmaking.






21. A dance






22. 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






23. Beuatiful with ornate borders






24. A technique of painting using pigment mixed with egg yolk






25. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people






26. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'






27. Perfected literary conversation and introduced everyday speech to theater






28. Influential in establishing the heroic couplet - Alexander's Feast - heroic stanzas






29. 20 -000 Leagues Under the Sea - Around the World in Eighty Days. He is considered the Father of Science Fiction.






30. Most important of the French Romantic painters; profoundly shaped the work of the Impressionists.






31. Plato and Aristotle






32. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Henry David Thoreau






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






34. Goddess of Wisdom






35. 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






36. God of Wildlife






37. Fast






38. The farmer/ merchant caste in Hinduism






39. 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.






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






41. Painted 'Annunciation' - Annunciation - Siena Cathedral - Italy - international gothic - (Early 14th)






42. Music consistently constructed on a pattern of the twelve chromatic tones selected prior to composition.






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






44. Russian critic who founded the Ballet Russe






45. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)






46. Scientist - educator - abolitionist - philosopher - economist - political theorist - and statesman who defined the colonial new world in his writings; principal figure of the American enlightenment - Poor Richard's Almanac - Observations on the Incr






47. Spanish rhythm in 3/4 time






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






49. Spanish artist color plate 82-The Persistence of Memroy; best known and most sensational of the Surrealists.






50. Who designed the Brooklyn bridge?