Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - correct answers✅✅Pre-Socrates
Pythagoras - correct answers✅✅6th 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 answers✅✅a pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in
Italy. Denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion. NO Change.
Founder of Metaphysics.
Heraclitus - correct answers✅✅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).
Zeno - correct answers✅✅ancient Greek philosopher who formulated
paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa
495-430 BC)
Socrates - correct answers✅✅Greek 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 answers✅✅The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Atomists - correct answers✅✅Leucippus and Democritus
,Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
Plato - correct answers✅✅one 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 answers✅✅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, 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 answers✅✅an 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 answers✅✅patterns or pictures made by embedding
small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
sculpture - correct answers✅✅three dimensional work of art, statue
bust - correct answers✅✅a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a
person
obelisk - correct answers✅✅tall, 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a
point
multi-media - correct answers✅✅using two or more types of media
together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
,Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
louise nevelson - correct answers✅✅assembled 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 answers✅✅goldsmith and sculptor, wrote one of the first
autobiographies
barbara hepworth - correct answers✅✅British abstract sculptor
michelangelo - correct answers✅✅Italian Renaissance artist that painted
the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
henry moore - correct answers✅✅abstract sculptor who used rounding
techniques and very little detail
alexander calder - correct answers✅✅United States sculptor who first
created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
hagia sophia - correct answers✅✅Most 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 answers✅✅stained glass, pointed arches
and ribbed vaulting
, Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
Andrea Palladio - correct answers✅✅architect who like a statue at every
corner
Le Corbusier - correct answers✅✅French 20th century architect
Christopher Wren - correct answers✅✅architect refurbished St. Paul's
Cathedral
Mies van der Rohe - correct answers✅✅United States architect (born in
Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-
1969)
Frank Lloyd Wright - correct answers✅✅Considered America's greatest
architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and
harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
flying buttress - correct answers✅✅a brace or support placed on the
outside of a building
fresco - correct answers✅✅paint onto wet plaster on a wall
tempura - correct answers✅✅a technique of painting using pigment
mixed with egg yolk
gouche - correct answers✅✅Opaque watercolor
and Answers
Greek Philosophers Before Socrates - correct answers✅✅Pre-Socrates
Pythagoras - correct answers✅✅6th 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 answers✅✅a pre-socratic Greek philosopher born in
Italy. Denied the existence of time, plurality, and motion. NO Change.
Founder of Metaphysics.
Heraclitus - correct answers✅✅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).
Zeno - correct answers✅✅ancient Greek philosopher who formulated
paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa
495-430 BC)
Socrates - correct answers✅✅Greek 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 answers✅✅The idea that matter is made out of atoms
Atomists - correct answers✅✅Leucippus and Democritus
,Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
Plato - correct answers✅✅one 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 answers✅✅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, 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 answers✅✅an 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 answers✅✅patterns or pictures made by embedding
small pieces of stone or glass in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors
sculpture - correct answers✅✅three dimensional work of art, statue
bust - correct answers✅✅a sculpture of the head and shoulders of a
person
obelisk - correct answers✅✅tall, 4 sided pillar of stone that rises to a
point
multi-media - correct answers✅✅using two or more types of media
together to create an art object such as glitter or beads on a painting
,Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
louise nevelson - correct answers✅✅assembled 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 answers✅✅goldsmith and sculptor, wrote one of the first
autobiographies
barbara hepworth - correct answers✅✅British abstract sculptor
michelangelo - correct answers✅✅Italian Renaissance artist that painted
the Sistine Chapel ceiling and sculpted the statue of David.
henry moore - correct answers✅✅abstract sculptor who used rounding
techniques and very little detail
alexander calder - correct answers✅✅United States sculptor who first
created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976)
hagia sophia - correct answers✅✅Most 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 answers✅✅stained glass, pointed arches
and ribbed vaulting
, Humanities Clep Test 400+ Questions
and Answers
Andrea Palladio - correct answers✅✅architect who like a statue at every
corner
Le Corbusier - correct answers✅✅French 20th century architect
Christopher Wren - correct answers✅✅architect refurbished St. Paul's
Cathedral
Mies van der Rohe - correct answers✅✅United States architect (born in
Germany) who built unornamented steel frame and glass skyscrapers (1886-
1969)
Frank Lloyd Wright - correct answers✅✅Considered America's greatest
architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and
harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs.
flying buttress - correct answers✅✅a brace or support placed on the
outside of a building
fresco - correct answers✅✅paint onto wet plaster on a wall
tempura - correct answers✅✅a technique of painting using pigment
mixed with egg yolk
gouche - correct answers✅✅Opaque watercolor
