Humanities CLEP Exam 2023/2024

Arch --Ancient Sumerians developed the _________ so they could construct doors and windows with brick. Post and lintel --Lion's Gate at Mycenae was constructed with the _______ ____ ________ system, or a large stone horizontal beam resting on two vertical ones. Defense --The primary purpose of medieval castles was _______ John Roebling --__________ designed the Brooklyn Bridge. Flying buttresses --External support for the walls of Gothic buildings was provided by _________ ______ Frank Lloyd Wright --_____ designed the Guggenheim Museum. Usonian --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. Andrea Palladio --Born in 1508, ______________ was greatly influenced by Renaissance philosophers and artists, and was made architectural advisor to the Vatican in 1570. Christopher Wren --London's Great Fire of 1666 led to ___________'s appointment as Surveyor General, overseeing all the reconstruction work on the royal palaces. Barcelona Pavilion --Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the ____________ __________ in Spain. Antonio Gaudi --Leader of the Spanish Art Nouveau movement, _____________ designed Casa Mila and Casa Batllo in Barcelona. Cerros --The Mayans built their first temple in ________ Citizen Kane --Largely considered the best film of all time, ____________ ______ was directed by Orson Welles Montage --Editors often use ___________ in film to convey the passing of time, combining images from the different periods that are being covered. Alexandra Danilova --___________, the Russian-American ballerina, she joined Diaghilev's Ballet Russe in 1924, and was prima ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo from 1938 to 1958. Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev --________ founded Ballets Russes with Fokine, Bakst, and Benois. Thomas Edison --Inventor of the telegraph and peep-show machine, _____________ also produced over 125 films, including documentaries, dramas, and comedies. Edwin Porter --The Great Train Robbery and Life of an American Fireman are the works of _______ Martha Graham --Considered the most influential figure in modern dance, _____________ developed her own form of choreography, calling for exemplary discipline and flexibility. D.W. Griffith --The first filmmaker to introduce fade-ins, ____________ is responsible for Birth of a Nation (1915) and Orphans of the Storm (1922). Alfred Hitchcock --The classic horror film The Birds was the brainchild of ________ Federico Fellini --Italian film director ______________ created Nights of Cabiria, La Dolce Vida, and 81/2 Al Jolson --Entertainer _____________ introduced the songs April Showers and Mammy to popular culture. The Jazz Singer --____ ______ _________ was the first movie to use dialogue. Michel Fokine --Choreographer ______________ created The Firebird and Petrouchka, among others. Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein --___________ developed the montage film technique Film noir --A dimly-lit film with dark, cynical characters is known as ________ ____ Lillian Gish --Born in 1896, ______________ made her acting debut with D.W. Griffith, and starred in The Scarlet Letter and The Wind Charlie Chaplin --________ developed the character Little Tramp, with the trademark Derby hat and moustache. Gaffer --The member of a film crew in charge of lighting is the ________ Trailers --Commercials promoting the release of a new film are known as _____________. Folk dances --The Scottish "Highland Fling" and the Hawaiian hula are both _______ _______ Cecil Sharp --Born in 1859, _____________ formed the English Folk Dance Society. Fandango --____________ is a Spanish dance in triple time performed by a single couple Jig --A lively Irish dance with fast, irregular steps is known as the ____ Stanley Kubrick --_________ created the memorable films A Clockwork Orange and A Space Odyssey. Katharine Hepburn --_________ won four Academy Awards, for her work in Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond. Gregorian chants --_______ _______ are traditional Latin worship music in the Roman Catholic Church. Renaissance --Fourteenth through seventeenth century Europe was known as the ________ Baroque --________ was a music style popular from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, introducing harmony and replacing modes in church music. Plainsong --A _____________ is an unharmonized chant, frequently called a Gregorian chan Eight --How many modes served as the foundation for plainsongs? Hindu --_____ music is monodic, with tones equal to one-fourth of a full Western tone.