Multiple Choice Final Exam Flashcards
Portion 2 of Final Exam 25% of Final
Genesis can be divided into two sections at what chapters?
11-12
Helpful Remembering Tips:
Split into 2 sections
Goes from 1 to 2
(11-12)
What does God make with man?
Covenants
Paris stole Helen, wife of …?
Menelaus
The Greeks built a giant wooden…?
Horse
The Odyssey is …?
An Epic
The Odyssey is REALLY about …?
the maturing of Greek culture
Who is trying to help Odysseus
Athena
Back in Ithaka, Penelope is avoiding marrying one of the suitors by pretending to …?
weave a death shroud for Laertes
Polyphemus is the giant …?
Cyclops
The main women of The Odyssey are all …?
Weaving
At the end of the story Odysseus is disguised as a …?
Beggar
Who gives Telemachos a wedding dress.
Helen
Helen was known as the most beautiful woman
Weddings - Beautiful
Dresses
Herodotus is known as the Father of …?
History
H erodotus –> H istory
Herodotus is building up to telling us all about the … War
Greek/Persian
Lots of Cats (Persian Cats) in Greece
They fight a lot
So they are in a
The first great Persian king was …?
Cyrus
The Greeks defeated Darius and the Persians at the Battle of …?
Marathon
They had to run a Marathon to catch up to Darius
At one point Xerxes became enraged with the Hellespont and …?
Spanked it
spont- spank
Aeschylus is called the Father of …?
Drama
His name is very long and Dramatic
Aeschylus sounds like doctor from Greek Myth- son of Apollo who was very dramatic
When Agamemnon arrives home after the Trojan War, he finds that his wife has been living with …?
his cousin Aegisthos
Aegisthos + Agamemnon
Similar names- cousins
Agamemnon and Clytaemnesra’s two living children are
Orestes and …?
Electra
Electrocuted
Their Parents were murdered
In “The Libation Bearers” the violence continues as Orestes murders …?
his mother Clytaemnestra
The “victory” Aeschylus is celebrating is that Greece …?
is now settling into a civilized culture.
In Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave, Plato illustrates his idea that in this world in which you and I live, we see …?
only shadows
Socrates says he is justified in his actions because …?
he doesn’t charge a fee
In The Crito dialogue Socrates argues that he will not escape from prison because it will cause harm to …?
his soul
In The Phaedo dialogue Socrates says that learning is actually …?
remembering
Livy spent 40 years writing how many volumes of Roman history?
142
Of the 142 volumes of history Livy wrote, how many survive today?
35
Livy says that the reason he wrote so much history was that “the study of history is …?
the best medicine for a sick mind
Aeneas was the great……. grandfather of …?
Romulus
Rome’s first government was a …?
monarchy
In 510 BC Romans overthrew the monarchy and instituted a …?
republic
In 27 BC Rome instituted its third government, an …?
Empire
The republic, which began in 510 BC, consisted of …? consuls who held power for only one year.
consuls
Virgil’s poem, The Aeneid, supported the reign of …?
Augustus Ceaser
