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1
Who wrote poems celebrating lesbian love?
Homer
Marcus Aurelius
The anonymous author of The Epic of Gilgamesh
Sappho
2
To which culture/place do you associate Cuneiform writing?
Mesopotamia
Rome
Egypt
Greece
3
Which of these is NOT an Indo-European language?
Hindi
English
Mandarin
Yiddish
4
Writing developed for ____________ purposes.
Religious
Artistic
Economic and diplomatic
Intellectual
5
What did Gilgamesh want - after the death of Enkidu?
revenge
to find the secret of immortality
to die
to find love
6
What is the climax of a play?
The resolution
The catharsis
The most important / intense / exciting moment
The exposition
7
A Stoic's question:
How can I leave my cave and access a world of pure Forms or Ideas?
How do I accept the chaos of the world - and not feel harmed by it all?
8
In "The Nibelungenlied", Brunhilde is a Valkyrie, i.e.:
a Germanic amazon
a dragon
a rich woman
a noble lady
9
Latin is said to be a syntactic language because...
Of its sounds
Of its lexicon
Of its history
Of its inflections
10
Where were clay tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh found in the 19th century?
Athens
Constantinople
Babylon
Nineveh
11
Who forced approx. 4000 Jews to migrate to Babylon?
Ashurbanipal
Gilgamesh
Ezra
Nebuchadnezzar II
12
Heroic poetry...
is usually anonymous
is usually attributed to one specific author
13
Homeric epics take place in...
Roman Empire
Ancient Egypt
Classical Greece
Archaic Greece
14
This was the other capital of the Roman Empire:
Madrid
Constantinople
Paris
Florence
15
What was new in the Ancient Greek alphabet?
Consonants
It consisted in only 5 letters.
Umlauts and accents
Vowels
16
The first cities of Mesopotamia developed ca. 7500 BCE.
True
False
17
These rivers are called the Tigris and the Nile
False
True
18
How did Socrates teach?
Discussion and debate
He wrote down his thoughts and meditations
Lectures in a classroom
On Zoom
19
What is Odysseus trying to do in "The Odyssey"?
Return home
Defeat the Trojans
20
When did Raphael paint "The School of Athens"?
In the 20th century
In the Renaissance
When Plato was still alive
In the Middle Ages
21
Sophocles gave us one of the first literary theory treatise.
True
False
22
Courtly literature is...
about noble knights and noble ladies
pre-Christian
horribly violent and gore
about warriors seeking fame and stabbing each other in the back
23
The word "Civilization" comes from the word "civitas" which is Greek.
True
False
24
Mesopotamia means "land between the..."
cultures
Gods
mountains
rivers
25
Linear A and Linear B are forms of writing that are older than the Greek alphabet.
True
False
26
The Italian language is said to come from Rome/the Roman region.
False
True
27
Boccaccio's book is a frame story, i.e. stories within a story
True
False
28
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles - ?
Mesopotamia
Archaic Greece
Rome
Classical Greece
29
French is the language that is the closest to Latin.
False
True
30
Who formulated 282 legal decisions in a famous Code?
Ashurbanipal
Socrates
Gilgamesh
Hammurabi
31
The Romans are remembered as...
a people of original poets
a people with a truly unique mythology
a people of skilled military strategists
a people of violent anarchists
32
What is a synonym of "hubris"?
Arrogance
City
Wisdom
Beauty
33
Ezra the Scribe is associated to Catholicism.
False
True
34
Which Roman historian wrote about Germanic tribes?
Julius Caesar
Marcus Aurelius
Homer
Tacitus
35
Which Assyrian King had his own library of 25000 clay tablets?
Tutankhamun
Enkidu
Gilgamesh
Ashurbanipal
36
What is a ziggurat?
a scribe
a kind of poem
a very long river
a tower
37
What is the language of the "Oaths of Strasbourg"?
French
It's in two languages, actually: a Romance language and a Germanic language
Latin
English
38
The Allegory of the Cave is included in this text:
Plato's Republic
Aesop's Fables
Sophocles' Antigone
Plato's Symposium
39
This is NOT associated to a "civilization":
religion
artistic activities
nomadism
urban settlements
40
What is the snake's punishment in Genesis?
It is sentenced to hell.
It is sentenced to stay with God forever.
It is sentenced to death
It is sentenced to crawl on its belly.
