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| The Middle Ages saw the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome transformed by contact with three very different cultures. Those were... |
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| The people of the Renaissance called the Middle Ages the "medieval" period seeing it as a time of... |
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In the ninth century, who had translated much of Greek science and philosophy into Arabic, preserving and enriching this tradition at the very time it was in decline in
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| The Koran was originally written in... |
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| an earthly duplicate of a divine Koran. |
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| For Muslims the Koran is greater than prophetic revelation. It is... |
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| Muslims believe the Koran is God's ___ revelation. |
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| The Divine Comedy" was originally written in... |
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| the classical world's literary achievements. |
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| The Divine Comedy" is amazing because it combines medieval Christendom with ... |
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| the relation of the Creator to His creatures and the ultimate destiny of the human soul. |
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| The Divine Comedy" is one of the most deeply serious works in world literature; it takes as its major theme... |
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| Virgil was a pagan and not allowed any further. |
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| Why does Dante's Inferno guide, Virgil, not accompany him beyond the Inferno? |
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| In the Inferno who has three faces in parody of the Trinity? |
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| the sinner committing his sin forever, for all eternity. |
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| The punishment for sin in the Inferno is... |
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| physically climbing up and over Satan's body from the lowest point in Hell. |
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| Dante and Virgil get out of Hell by... |
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| T/F The most common type of literary device found in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is alliteration. |
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| T/F The story of "Sir Gawain" begins at the court of King Arthur and it is just before Easter. |
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| T/F The unknown rider who appears in Arthur's court is green, his gear is green, and he even rides a green horse. |
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| T/F The Green Knight carries a holly bob and suggests a beheading game, in which Gawain volunteers to participate. |
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| T/F When Gawain hits the Green Knight with the axe, he is only able to give the Knight a small cut, hardly even wounding him. |
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| T/F When Gawain rides off to find the Green Knight, he is carrying a shield with a five pointed star on it. It is a sign of Solomon and its endless knot stands for one who is faultless in the five senses, the five wounds Christ got on the cross, and for the five joys of St. Paul. |
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| T/F While his Host, Bercilak, is out hunting, Gawain is pursued by Bercilak's daughter. |
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| T/F Gawain accepts a belt or sash from Bercilak's wife which to him becomes a symbol of shame because it shows he is concerned about his own life and that he did not live up to the agreement he made with his host. |
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| T/F A great irony arises when Gawain goes back to Arthur's court and the other knights begin to wear belts or sashes like his to honor him. |
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| Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" were originally written in... |
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| T/F Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" is centered around a sexually promiscuous wife named Alison who, with her lover Nicholas, convince her husband, John, that there will be a huge earthquake soon. |
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| T/F John, Alison, and Nicholas climb into huge containers that have been hung from the ceiling and once John goes to sleep Alison and Nicholas sneak off to go to bed with each other. |
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| T/F When Absolom comes by singing and pleading for at least a kiss from Alison, she feels sorry for him and leans out the window and gives him a little kiss. |
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| T/F Absolom comes back with a plowshare well heated and asks for another kiss. This time Nicholas projects his rear out the window where Absolom lets him have it with the hot iron. When Nicholas yells "Water! Water!" John awakes and cuts the rope holding his basket, breaking his arm when he hits the floor. |
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| Women are sexually promiscuous and not to be trusted. |
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| The Miller's Tale" played on which commonly accepted attitude of the Middle Ages? |
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| According to the "Wife of Bath's Tale" what do women really want? |
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| The term "Renaissance" means... |
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| Machiavelli said a great prince is one who acts like... |
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| Simple and there were always those who would be deceived. |
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| Machiavelli felt common people were generally... |
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| Machiavelli called Fortune a woman and said she responded best to the man who treated her agressively. In doing so he was using... |
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| Montaigne quotes the Roman Vibius, who boasted of "having become mad through wisdom." This is an example of... |
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| He did not like passing on "the borrowed truths" of others. |
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| Montaigne said he preferred to write of things of the past rather than the present, why? |
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| Europeans saw anything unfamiliar or different from their own culture as barbaric. |
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| In writing about people the Europeans thought of as barbarians, Montaigne felt... |
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| T/F Cervantes goes to great lengths to make the reader believe that Don Quixote is sane. |
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| T/F Generally, the encounters between the ordinary world and Don Quixote are encounters between the world of reality and that of illusion and a world in which action is prompted by material considerations and a world in which action is promted by ideal motives. |
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| T/F The irony in "Don Quixote" comes from the inevitable sense of moral grandeur in the spectacle of anyone remaining so unflinchingly faithful to his own vision. |
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| T/F Sancho Panza is the representative of reality in this work and he is never caught in the snare of Quixote's visions of the ideal. |
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| T/F Don Quixote decided that Dulcinea would be the "mistress of his thoughts" because this was the name he gave to Aldonza Lorenzo, a lady known far and wide for her grace and beauty. |
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| T/F When he first set out on his mission as a knight-errant, Quixote carefully planned out his route and knew exactly which roads he would take to right every manner of wrong and place himself in situations of great peril to bring eternal glory to his name. |
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| T/F Quixote is dubbed a knight by the king and he is given a salary to pay for his food and lodging. |
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| T/F Sancho is as idealistic as Quixote and agrees to go along as his squire without any thought of his own reward. |
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| Laura plays in his personal struggles between spiritual aspirations and earthly attacnments. |
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| Petrach's sonnets illuminate the powerful role that... |
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| The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into the octave and the sestet. Usually the solution for the problem or the resolution of the burden comes in the ... |
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| Had no octave or sestet but embodied four divisions including three quatrains and a rhymed couplet. |
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| The Shakespearean or English sonnet differed from the Petrachan in that they... |
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| The poetry known as the "Carpe Diem" poems could generally be said to have which of the following as their immediate or short-term goal? |
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| In Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14" his line, "I, like an usurped town to another due,/ Labor to admit to you, but oh, to no end;" is seemingly addressed to... |
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| Later the poet says, "Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain/ But am betrothed unto your enemy." The "enemy" seems to be... |
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| Shakespeare's "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" was originally written in... |
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| Which other character is used as a foil for Hamlet? |
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Hamlet vs. himself
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| She drowns; it is unknown if it is suicide. |
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| A ghost of the former king appears. |
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| An omen occurs at the beginning of the play that helps set a mood of illness, corruption, darkness, and disease. What is that omen? |
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Hamlet asks forgiveness of Laertes.
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| After all the chaos, which of the following is an attempt by Shakespeare to establish order anew? |
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| Shakespeare used lots of contrast. Such contrast can be seen in his use of... |
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| The ancient world was centered around |
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| 800 B.C. to about 400 A.D. |
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| The title "Ancient Period" refers to roughly what time period? |
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| the nineteenth century A.D. |
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| The cuneiform records of Babylon and the hieroglyphic writing of Egypt remained a puzzle until... |
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| The term "diaspora" means... |
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| their religious literature. |
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| The most important thing which the Hebrews left to subsequent generations was... |
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| their understanding of one God. |
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| The most important unique concept which the Hebrews wrote about was... |
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| The first five books of the Old Testament. |
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| The term "Pentateuch" refers to... |
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the basis for their culture.
the basis for their education. |
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| Greek epic poetry became... |
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| the art of public speaking. |
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| In Greek society the education system emphasized... |
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the Hebrew God represents order; the Greek gods represent disorder.
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| The major difference between the Hebrew God and the Greek gods is... |
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| their concept of democracy. |
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| The most important thing which we got from the Greeks was... |
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| the great body of Roman law. |
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| Your text states one of the most important contributions made by the Romans to Western civilization was... |
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| The legend of "Gilgamesh" was originally written in... |
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| the death of his friend, Enkidu. |
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| Gilgamesh experiences growth as a character through... |
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| One of the main ways that the gods in "Gilgamesh" communicate is ... |
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| the reason the god/God sent the the flood. |
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| The most significant difference in the story of the flood in "Gilgamesh" and the one in the Old Testment is... |
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| to prove Job will maintain his integrity and trust in God. |
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| The major reason God allows Job to be tested in the Old Testament story... |
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| The story of "Job" was originally written in... |
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| he must be guilty of some sin or God would not make him suffer. |
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| When Job's friends see the extent of his suffering they tell him... |
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| the need to trust in God no matter what. |
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| The most important thing that Job illustrates in the tale of his incredible suffering is... |
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He makes no moral judgements on any of his characters or the events of his stories.
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| What is it that makes Homer's works seem quite modern? |
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| an invocation (request) to the muse for inspiration. |
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| The opening of an epic poem will contain... |
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| Homer's epics were orginally written in... |
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| The Latin term often demonstrated in epics in "Medias Res" means... |
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| The Muse being sought for inspiration by Homer was... |
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| Agamemnon decided to steal Achilles' war trophy, Briseis |
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| The reason Achilles gets so angry in "the Iliad" is... |
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| he loses his best friend to death. |
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| Achilles has a major crisis in his life that is similar to one Gilgamesh endured and that is... |
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| he gives Hector's body back to Priam. |
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| Achilles shows his return to his people and his place in his community when... |
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| Classical Greek epics were written in... |
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| life can be about adventure, but it is also about learning what it takes to be a survivor. |
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| Where in the "Iliad" Homer stresses the importance of heroic deeds of war and the sense of honor that makes one unafraid of death, the important point he seems to be emphasizing in the "Odyssey is... |
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| Odysseus refuses to gloat over the defeat of the suitors. |
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| One of the most satisfying elements of the "Odyssey" is the character development, which is most fully complete when... |
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| He is clever enough to carefully assess the situation and be sure of the best method for success before he acts. |
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| What does Odysseus' hesitation to immediately confront the suitors upon his arrival home reveal about him? |
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| Amazingly for the time, Homer depicts a woman as not only faithful but intelligent too. Which of his characters below is portrayed as such a woman? |
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| Homer's imposition of an anthropocentric emphasis in his work can be seen in its... |
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| Sophocles' plays were orginally written in... |
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| The literary device used most in "Oedipus the King"... |
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| Early in the play "Oedipus the King" a priest speaks of the city of Thebes:"Our ship pitches wildly, cannot lift her head/ from the depth, the red waves of death.../Thebes is dying." The literary device used is...? |
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| When Chaerephon asked the oracle at Delphi if anyone was wiser than Socrates, the oracle responded... |
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| At first Oedipus is spiritually blind, but when he learns the truth he puts his own eyes out; he too becomes physically blind, but then "sees" the truth. |
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| A major ironic fact in "Oedipus the King" is that the only person who can see the truth at first is a blind prophet. In what way does this become foreshadowing? |
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| Socrates did not lecture and mainly used a question and answer technique to expose the illogic in his opponent's position. |
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| The major difference between Socrates' teaching method and that of the Sophists was... |
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| a gadfly who alights everywhere on the animal to awaken and cajole it. |
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| Socrates saw himself as having a special role to play for the people of Athens. In a simile, he compared Athens to a large sluggish thoroughbred horse and himself to... |
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| He did not think he knew what he did not know. |
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| Socrates thought he was wiser than the politicians he talked with in what one way? |
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| An incredible journey to a place where he may discuss ideas with the likes of Orpheus, Hesiod, and Homer. |
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| Which of the following best describes Socrates attitude regarding death? |
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| His seriousness of purpose and his devotion to duty. |
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| Aeneas serves as a prototype of the ideal Roman. What is it about him that the Romans admired so much? |
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| Virgil's "Aeneid" was orginally written in... |
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| The gods told him to leave. |
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| Why did Aeneas leave Dido? |
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| He tells Aeneas Romans are to be strong world leaders who will impose the rule of law. |
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| During his visit to the underworld Anchises gives Aeneas a very important message. Why is the message so important? |
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| In what language were the Gospels first written? |
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| About when is the Christian Bible dated? |
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| Which gospel was obviously addressed to Greek readers? |
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| Which of the Gospels was obviously written with a Jewish public in mind? |
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| Which of the Gospels was obviously written with a Gentile audience in mind? |
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| Jesus said, "I have not come to destroy the law, but to ___ it." |
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| Jesus said, "If your right eye makes you go amiss, take it out and cast it from you...if your right hand makes you go amiss, cut it off and cast it from you." The literary device used here is... |
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| The ease of following the ways of the world instead of the tenets of the Father. |
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| Jesus said, "Narrow is the gate and cramped the road that leads to life, and few are they who find it." He is obviously referring to... |
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| The Thesis of the "Sermon on the Mount" could be summed up overall as... |
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| T/F The canonical version of the Old Testatment (the first five books) is known as the Pentateuch. |
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| T/F The background for our institutions, attitudes, and thought were written in two languages. |
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| T/F The most significant thing which the Hebrews left as a part of our Western heritage was their knowledge of architecture. |
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| T/F The term "diaspora" refers to the blessing of the Hebrew people. |
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| T/F The period we call the "Ancient period" refers to roughly 800 B.C. to about 400 A.D. |
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| T/F The epic poems of Homer and the Old Testament are both the basis for an education and, therefore, for a whole culture for their respective people. |
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| T/F The greatest contribution the Romans made to Western civilization was their art. |
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| The work "Gilgamesh" is dated from... |
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| One of the main ways that the gods in "Gilgamesh" communicate is ... |
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| the death of his friend, Enkidu. |
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| Gilgamesh experiences growth as a character through... |
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| the reason the god/God sent the the flood. |
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| The most significant difference in the story of the flood in "Gilgamesh" and the one in the Old Testment is... |
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| to prove Job will maintain his integrity and trust in God. |
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| The major reason God allows Job to be tested in the Old Testament story... |
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| a narrative of the Jewish people and their relation to their god. |
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| The Hebrew Bible contains a rich variety of genres including poetry and prose, short story, genealogy, laws, visionary stories (prophecy), and many kinds of lyric poetry. Together they form... |
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| he must be guilty of some sin or God would not make him suffer. |
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| When Job's friends see the extent of his suffering they tell him... |
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| the need to trust in God no matter what. |
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| The most important thing that Job illustrates in the tale of his incredible suffering is... |
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| an invocation (request) to the muse for inspiration. |
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| The opening of an epic poem will contain... |
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| Epic poetry is written in... |
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| Agamemnon decided to steal Achilles' war trophy, Briseis |
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| The reason Achilles gets so angry in "the Iliad" is... |
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| the fact that he shows pity for Priam, who reminds him of his own dear father. |
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| In the end, Achilles is able to work through his anger, achieve his role as hero, and reconcile with his community, which is revealed through... |
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| he loses his best friend to death. |
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| Achilles has a major crisis in his life that is similar to one Gilgamesh endured and that is... |
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| life can be about adventure, but it is also about learning what it takes to be a survivor. |
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| Where in the "Iliad" Homer stresses the importance of heroic deeds of war and the sense of honor that makes one unafraid of death, the important point he seems to be emphasizing in the "Odyssey is... |
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| The name for a series of words added to a poetic line in epic poetry used to create the right number of stresses? (Ex."blue-eyed Athena.") |
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He makes no moral judgements on any of his characters or the events of his stories.
He remains impersonal in his narration. |
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| What is it that makes Homer's works seem quite modern? |
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| The literary device used most in "Oedipus the King"... |
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| Early in the play "Oedipus the King" a priest speaks of the city of Thebes:"Our ship pitches wildly, cannot lift her head/ from the depth, the red waves of death.../Thebes is dying." The literary device used is...? |
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| At first Oedipus is spiritually blind, but when he learns the truth he puts his own eyes out; he too becomes physically blind, but then "sees" the truth. |
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| A major ironic fact in "Oedipus the King" is that the only person who can see the truth at first is a blind prophet. In what way does this become foreshadowing? |
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| He equated himself to the gods by trying to circumvent divine will. |
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| According to the extreme punishment he is given, what has angered the gods with Oedipus? |
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| Sophocles' play indicates he believed even though man has to submit to the supreme power of the universe, man still chooses his own deeds through his free will and, therefore, must bear the ____________ for those choices. |
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| He begs Creon to take care of his children. |
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| After all he went through how does Oedipus reveal he is a good man in the end of the play? |
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| He presents Socrates speaking directly to the reader. |
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| How does Plato re-create the personality of his teacher in the "Apology for Socrates"? |
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| Socrates felt man should only worry about the improvement of his.... |
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| He says he is a gadfly whom God has sent to Athens. |
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| What analogy does Socrates use to explain his role in forcing the Athenians to think about what is really important? |
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| From childhood he has heard a voice. |
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| Socrates says he has a sign, which he believes is from divinity, that commands him to do the things he does. What sign does he say he has? |
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| He charged his students nothing and taught them to improve their souls through understanding moral absolutes; the sophists taught them to argue a topic from any point of view and charged high fees. |
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| What did Socrates see as the major difference between his methods of instruction and those of the sophists? |
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| What did Socrates say about the unexamined life? |
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| Horrible events in a tragedy can cause the audience to feel pity and fear. These emotions are known as ... |
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| The events of tragedy cause the audience to experience pity and fear and a kind of cleansing of the emotions takes place. This is called... |
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| Warfare and a man at war. |
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| According to the prologue, what is the theme of "the Aeneid"? |
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| Why did Aeneas leave Dido? |
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| To connect Rome with the ancient city of Troy and show it has a noble connection to the antiquity of the classical past. |
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| What is the most important thing that Aeneas is supposed to accomplish? |
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| His willingness to sacrifice everything, including his own happiness, for his duty. |
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| What is it about Aeneas that would make him heroic to the Romans? |
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| Jesus said, "If your right eye makes you go amiss, take it our and cast it from you." This is an example of... |
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| Jesus said, "I have not come to destroy (the law and the prophets) but to..." |
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| The gospel written with the Jewish public in mind? |
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| He refers to them as "blessed." |
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| What is radical about the way Jesus speaks of the common people? |
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| The gospel written with the Gentile audience in mind? |
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| The love and forgiveness of the Father. |
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| What, above all, is the message of Jesus. |
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an earthly duplicate of a divine Koran that exists in paradise.
like God, not created, but existing for all eternity. |
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| Muslims see the Koran as something greater than prophetic revelation. They see it as... |
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| The Muslim faithful believe the Koran came from God to Muhammad through...? |
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| According to the Koran a good woman is... |
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| The Koran stands to Muslims as ___ to Christians. |
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| the relation of the Creator to His creatures and the ultimate destiny of the human soul. |
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| Dante's "Divine Comedy's" major theme could best be stated... |
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| the achievements of the classical world and the works in world literature. |
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| In writing this work on the culture of medieval Christendom Dante strove to unite Christianity with... |
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| The design, unity, and order of Dante's epic work imitates the |
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| He was a pagan and lived before Christ. |
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| Why was Virgil not able to lead Dante after they left the Inferno? |
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| The date when Dante entered Purgatory was... |
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| they are trapped in their sin and must repeat it over and over for eternity. |
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| In the Inferno, one of the ways souls are punished is... |
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| The most common literary device used in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is... |
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| T/F The story of "Sir Gawain" begins at the court of King Arthur and it is just before Easter. |
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| T/F The unknown rider who appears in Arthur's court is green, his gear is green, and he even rides a green horse. |
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| T/F The Green Knight carries a holly bob and suggests a beheading game, in which Gawain volunteers to participate. |
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| T/F When Gawain hits the Green Knight with the axe, he is only able to give the Knight a small cut, hardly even wounding him. |
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| T/F When Gawain rides off to find the Green Knight, he is carrying a shield with a five pointed star on it. It is a sign of Solomon and its endless knot stands for one who is faultless in the five senses, the five wounds Christ got on the cross, and for the five joys of St. Paul. |
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| T/F Gawain accepts a belt or sash from Bercilak's wife which to him becomes a symbol of shame because it shows he is concerned about his own life and that he did not live up to the agreement he made with his host. |
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| T/F A great irony arises when Gawain goes back to Arthur's court and the other knights begin to wear belts or sashes like his to honor him. |
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| T/F Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" is centered around a sexually promiscuous wife named Alison who, with her lover Nicholas, convince her husband, John, that there will be a huge earthquake soon. |
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| T/F John, Alison, and Nicholas climb into huge containers that have been hung from the ceiling and once John goes to sleep Alison and Nicholas sneak off to go to bed with each other. |
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| T/F When Absolom comes by singing and pleading for at least a kiss from Alison, she feels sorry for him and leans out the window and gives him a little kiss. |
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| T/F Absolom comes back with a plowshare well heated and asks for another kiss. This time Nicholas projects his rear out the window where Absolom lets him have it with the hot iron. When Nicholas yells "Water! Water!" John awakes and cuts the rope holding his basket, breaking his arm when he hits the floor. |
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has a mind of her own.
knows when a joke has gone far enough. |
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| The "Miller's Tale" is ironic, in light of the attitudes of the time, in revealing three men all wanting to control Alison; yet it turns out she... |
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| The great irony of the "Pardoner's Tale" is that the Pardoner, like the subjects in his story, is quite... |
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| selling phony trinkets to igonorant people. |
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| The Pardoner makes his living... |
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| "The Pardoner's Tale" makes great use of personification. What is most graphically personified? |
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| In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," what is it that the Wife says all women want? |
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| That all women are nagging, promiscuous shrews, who cannot be trusted. |
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| What common attitude of the period does "The Wife of Bath's Tale" make use of in setting up the premise for the tale. |
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