Multiple Choice Final Exam

Question 1

Genesis can be divided into two sections at what chapters?

Answer 1

11-12

Helpful Remembering Tips:
Split into 2 sections
Goes from 1 to 2
(11-12)

Question 2

What does God make with man?

Answer 2

Covenants

Question 3

Paris stole Helen, wife of …?

Answer 3

Menelaus

Question 4

The Greeks built a giant wooden…?

Answer 4

Horse

Question 5

The Odyssey is …?

Answer 5

An Epic

Question 6

The Odyssey is REALLY about …?

Answer 6

the maturing of Greek culture

Question 7

Who is trying to help Odysseus

Answer 7

Athena

Question 8

Back in Ithaka, Penelope is avoiding marrying one of the suitors by pretending to …?

Answer 8

weave a death shroud for Laertes

Question 9

Polyphemus is the giant …?

Answer 9

Cyclops

Question 10

The main women of The Odyssey are all …?

Answer 10

Weaving

Question 11

At the end of the story Odysseus is disguised as a …?

Answer 11

Beggar

Question 12

Who gives Telemachos a wedding dress.

Answer 12

Helen

Helen was known as the most beautiful woman
Weddings - Beautiful
Dresses

Question 13

Herodotus is known as the Father of …?

Answer 13

History

H erodotus –> H istory

Question 14

Herodotus is building up to telling us all about the … War

Answer 14

Greek/Persian

Lots of Cats (Persian Cats) in Greece
They fight a lot
So they are in a

Question 15

The first great Persian king was …?

Answer 15

Cyrus

Question 16

The Greeks defeated Darius and the Persians at the Battle of …?

Answer 16

Marathon

They had to run a Marathon to catch up to Darius

Question 17

At one point Xerxes became enraged with the Hellespont and …?

Answer 17

Spanked it

spont- spank

Question 18

Aeschylus is called the Father of …?

Answer 18

Drama

His name is very long and Dramatic

Aeschylus sounds like doctor from Greek Myth- son of Apollo who was very dramatic

Question 19

When Agamemnon arrives home after the Trojan War, he finds that his wife has been living with …?

Answer 19

his cousin Aegisthos

Aegisthos + Agamemnon
Similar names- cousins

Question 20

Agamemnon and Clytaemnesra’s two living children are
Orestes and …?

Answer 20

Electra

Electrocuted

Their Parents were murdered

Question 21

In “The Libation Bearers” the violence continues as Orestes murders …?

Answer 21

his mother Clytaemnestra

Question 22

The “victory” Aeschylus is celebrating is that Greece …?

Answer 22

is now settling into a civilized culture.

Question 23

In Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave, Plato illustrates his idea that in this world in which you and I live, we see …?

Answer 23

only shadows

Question 24

Socrates says he is justified in his actions because …?

Answer 24

he doesn’t charge a fee

Question 25

In The Crito dialogue Socrates argues that he will not escape from prison because it will cause harm to ...?

Answer 25

his soul

Question 26

In The Phaedo dialogue Socrates says that learning is actually ...?

Answer 26

remembering

Question 27

Livy spent 40 years writing how many volumes of Roman history?

Answer 27

142

Question 28

Of the 142 volumes of history Livy wrote, how many survive today?

Answer 28

35

Question 29

Livy says that the reason he wrote so much history was that "the study of history is ...?

Answer 29

the best medicine for a sick mind

Question 30

Aeneas was the great....... grandfather of ...?

Answer 30

Romulus

Question 31

Rome's first government was a ...?

Answer 31

monarchy

Question 32

In 510 BC Romans overthrew the monarchy and instituted a ...?

Answer 32

republic

Question 33

In 27 BC Rome instituted its third government, an ...?

Answer 33

Empire

Question 34

The republic, which began in 510 BC, consisted of ...? consuls who held power for only one year.

Answer 34

consuls

Question 35

Virgil's poem, The Aeneid, supported the reign of ...?

Answer 35

Augustus Ceaser