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HUMANITIES CLEP TEST 2024 WITH 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
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William Shakespeare - correct answersGreatest playwright of all time; wrote MacBeth, King Lear,
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet; introduced new words to the English language. Histories, tragedies, comedies
aside - correct answersa line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the
stage
flat - correct answersscenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas
Noh Theatre - correct answersa classic form of Japanese drama involving heroic themes, a chorus, and
dance
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - correct answersPre-Socrates
Pythagoras - correct answers6th Century B.C., a Greek philosopher and mathematician, founder of a
religous movement called Pythagoreanism
Thales - correct answers"Father of Western Philosophy". Greek philosopher who taught that the
universe had originated from water.
Parmenides - correct answersa pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in Italy. Denied the existence of
time, plurality, and motion. NO Change. Founder of Metaphysics.
Heraclitus - correct answersa 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).
Zeno - correct answersancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief
that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
,Socrates - correct answersGreek philosopher; socratic method--questioning; sentenced to death for
corrupting Athens youth. Believed writing distorted ideas. His ideas were recorded by his followers
(Plato).
Atomism - correct answersThe idea that matter is made out of atoms
Atomists - correct answersLeucippus and Democritus
Plato - correct answersone of Socrates' students; was considered by many to be the GREATEST
philosopher of western civilization. Explained his ideas about government in a work entitled The
Republic. In his ideal state, the people were divided into three different groups.
Aristotle - correct answersGreek 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, which led him to criticize what he saw as
Plato's metaphysical excesses, theory follows empirical observation and logic, based on the syllogism, is
the essential method of rational inquiry.
pop art - correct answersan artistic movement that emerged in the early 1960s; pop artists took images
from popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
mosaics - correct answerspatterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in
cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
sculpture - correct answersthree dimensional work of art, statue
bust - correct answersa sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person
obelisk - correct answerstall, 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a point
multi-media - correct answersusing two or more types of media together to create an art object such as
glitter or beads on a painting
, louise nevelson - correct answersassembled architectural sculptures of "found" wooden objects and
used them to construct screens of boxes of varied sizes which she painted in monochromatic colors.
constantin brancusi - correct answers(1876) 19th-20th c. Romanian sculptor known for highly simplified
archetypical human and animal forms (The Kiss; Bird in Space)
cellini - correct answersgoldsmith and sculptor, wrote one of the first autobiographies
barbara hepworth - correct answersBritish abstract sculptor
michelangelo - correct answersItalian Renaissance artist that painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling and
sculpted the statue of David.
henry moore - correct answersabstract sculptor who used rounding techniques and very little detail
alexander calder - correct answersUnited States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-
1976)
hagia sophia - correct answersMost famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under
Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. Constructed of interlocking
domes.
gothic age architecture - correct answersstained glass, pointed arches and ribbed vaulting
Andrea Palladio - correct answersarchitect who like a statue at every corner
Le Corbusier - correct answersFrench 20th century architect
Christopher Wren - correct answersarchitect refurbished St. Paul's Cathedral
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