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CLEP Humanities All In One
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1. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Edison
multi-media
Niccolo Machiavelli
2. Based on the practices of li and jen - was based on the ethical system of being neighborly-
Remington
Giotto
Confucianism
Fauvism
3. Fast
William Wordsworth
Mary Wollstonecraft
allegro
Ray Bradbury
4. Rebirth
Cynics
Dactylic
Henri Matisse
renaissance
5. Method of composition by which the composer extends the technique of twelve tone composition to other areas such as rhythm dynamics timbre and duration. Most important invention in the 20th century.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Hyperbole
andante
Serialism
6. Five-foot line
D.W. Griffith
Pentameter
Henrik Ibsen
Monometer
7. 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.
chalice
Mannerism
Henrik Ibsen
Le Corbusier
8. 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
George Sand
Henrik Ibsen
Edgar Allen Poe
9. British team writing light-hearted song/story format; Opereta - 'Pirates of Penzance' and Mikado
Gilbert and Sullivan
Jules Verne
chalice
Al Jolson
10. Stained glass - pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Jean Fragonard
gothic age architecture
Al Jolson
constantin brancusi
11. The repetition of initial constant sounds. Example: The fair breeze blew - the white foam flew - the furrow followed free.
Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Christopher Wren
Alliteration
Confucianism
12. London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General - overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces.
Leo Tolstoy
alexander calder
Christopher Wren
Edvard Greig
13. Frank Lloyd Wright developed the ___________ housing design - a take-off on his earlier prairie houses - in response to the vast demand for low income housing.
Jonathan Swift
Manhattan Project
Simone De Beauvoir
Usonian
14. Gods of Inspiration for literature - Science - and the arts
The Muses
Al Jolson
Jules Verne
tempura
15. Possibly the most famous English satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal - Swift (1667 - 1745) was a clergyman and Irishman - which often made hilarious impact in his writings (such as A Tale of a Tub and the aforementioned Mo
Mies van der Rohe
Beethoven & Wagner
Jonathan Swift
Ray Bradbury
16. Famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people
Mathew Brady
Mannerism
Cervantes
gouche
17. British abstract sculptor
Jean Fragonard
barbara hepworth
Alexander Dumas
Arnold Schoenberg
18. Famous ballet dancer - known as 'the mother of dance'
Martha Graham
Aubrey Beardsley
Picasso
Parmenides
19. 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
gothic age architecture
T.S. Eliot
Roman Basilica
Mies van der Rohe
20. 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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21. Artist of 'The Starry Night' (1889) - also painted 'Sunflowers' and 'Night Cafe'
Vincent van Gogh
Byzantine Style
Botticelli
Hermes/Mercury
22. Goddess of Fortune
Personification
Tyche/Fortuna
James Joyce
Pablo Picasso
23. 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
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Surrealism
Rembrandt
Epicureans
24. His works provided the basis for love poetry and popularized the theme of humanism - The Cazoniere
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates
Francesco Petrarch
25. A Spanish painter best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. 'Guernica'
Herman Melville
Picasso
presto
Heraclitus
26. United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
Post Impressionism
Masaccio
Giotto
Mary McCarthy
27. 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
El Greco
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Merchant of Venice
Seurat
28. God of Time - Harvest and Agriculture
Atomism
Kronos/Saturn
Pablo Picasso
Pyrrhic Pattern
29. One of first artists to break away from Italio-Byzantine style - Giotto's teacher - Duccio's 'Virgin in Majesty'
Cimabue
Giotto
Thomas Edison
louise nevelson
30. A prolific German baroque composer remembered best for his oratorio Messiah (1685-1759)
neo-classic period
Handel
Serge Diaghilev
Moral Philosophers
31. The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Joseph Conrad
Atomism
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Monometer
32. French impressionist painter; nude female paintings
Leo Tolstoy
michelangelo
Renoir
Victor Hugo
33. A brace or support placed on the outside of a building
Socrates
Atomism
Flying buttress
Handel
34. Long-Short
Seurat
Friedrich Nietzsche
John Roebling
Trochaic pattern
35. French feminist who wrote the treatise titled ' The Second Sex'
Simone De Beauvoir
gouche
D.W. Griffith
High Renaissance
36. Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato - the tutor of Alexander the Great - and the author of works on logic - metaphysics - ethics - natural sciences - politics - and poetics - he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system - whi
William Shakespeare
Vermeer
Aristotle
Martha Graham
37. (1469-1527) Wrote The Prince which contained a secular method of ruling a country. 'End justifies the means.'
Niccolo Machiavelli
Barcelona Pavilion
Eros/Cupid
Bronte Sisters
38. A stringed guitar-like instrument from India
cellini
Stephen Crane
sitar
Ares/Mars
39. Frescoe painter - founded flourentine school - realisitc poses
Giotto
Versailles
Pavane and the Polonaise
Da Vinci
40. 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.
D.W. Griffith
Gilbert and Sullivan
Heptameter
Apollo
41. A wooden box where religious relics are stored or displayed
French female pose
Mathew Brady
Henry Dixon Cowell
reliquary
42. United States architect (born in Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-1969)
Mies van der Rohe
William Faulkner
Serge Diaghilev
Aphrodite/Venus
43. Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system - or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones.
Persian Rugs
Merchant of Venice
Post and Lintel
Artemis/Diana
44. Greatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth - King Lear - Hamlet - Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories - tragedies - comedies
dada school
Seurat
William Shakespeare
Impressionistic Art came before
45. Noted for its rich use of ornamental domes - colorful mosaics - and lavish decorations
High Renaissance Painters
Martha Graham
Rococo
Byzantine Style
46. Ancient Greek philosopher - wrote Republic and Symposium - credited with being the most influential force on Western philosophy of all time. He taught the likes of Aristotle - and expressed his philosophical beliefs largely through fictional dialogue
Plato
Spondaic Pattern
oratorio
Joseph Conrad
47. Four-foot line
dada school
Tetrameter
Vermeer
Cervantes
48. 6th Century B.C. - a Greek philosopher and mathematician - founder of a religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Dimeter
Augustine Age
Pythagoras
Mark Twain
49. 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.
Persian Rugs
William Faulkner
D.W. Griffith
Ernest Hemingway
50. Painter - sculpter - architect - engineer - musician; invented the court painter of the king of France; 'Mona Lisa -' 'The Last Supper'(classical) - 'Vitruvian Man'(anatomy)
ballet
gothic age architecture
Da Vinci
Hexameter