judd ucp final OLD TEST ?s
Which of the following plays does not belong to the group of the three theban tragedies written by Sophocles?
Electra
true/false: from the very beginning of the play, Ismene dutifully helps her sister bury their brother
false
true/false: in the theater of Dionysus in Athens, plays were often performed att night.
false
true/false: the actors normally performed on the scene, an exact equivalent to the stage of the modern theater.
false
true/false: the chorus was normally composed of 10 men
false
true/false: the first word of the latin text of Aenied is "Arma" a subtle reference to the Odyssey
false
true/false:at the beginning of scene 3, Haimom immediately challenges his father's authority and judgement
false
The seventh man feels guilty because he:
ran away from the approaching wave instead of going back to save K.
Troy is located in what is today the country of:
Turkey
true/false: dionysus was known as the god of wisdom and war
false
Virgil's major themes in the Aeneid include all of the following EXCEPT:
Aeneas's unwillingness to follow the directions of the gods
Who of the following is not considered one of the greatest Greek tragic playwrights?
Anaxagoras
the goddess of wisdom and was; she was also the patroness of Athens to whom the Temple at the top of the Acropolis was dedicated:
Athena
Eventually taking power after the assassination of Julius Caesar, this man became the first Emperor of Rome:
Augustus
Sinon's trickery goes on to include the seer Calchas. What role does Calchas play?
Calchas names Sinon as the one to be sacrificed for a safe return of the Greek fleet
The theater at the base of Acropolis in Athens was dedicated to the god(des):
Dionysus
This sculptor is known for a depiction of Aeneas carrying his father out of Troy as its burns. The work expresses both the sensation of movement and instability.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Paris' prize for choosing Aphrodite (Venus) as the most beautiful woman is:
Helen of Sparta
Murakami was born on this island of Japan, the one on which Tokyo is located.
Honshu
This epic by Homer rercounts the story of the Trojan War, featuring a dispute between Agamemnon and Achilles:
Illiad
The 8th avatar of Vishnu who replicates himself to dance with each milk maid individually is called:
Krishna
The true biological father of Oedipus is:
Laios
This priest of Neptune tries to warn the Trojans not to bring the horse into the city.
Laocoön
At the beginning of Antigone, Creon gives an order that one of Oedipus' sons is not to be buried. This man, regarded as an enemy, is:
Polyneices
In his speech, Sagan claims all of the following EXCEPT:
President Washington began America's dangerous quest to have military superiority over every other country
The organizational structure of "The Man in the Water" is:
Question and Answer
Choose the most likely meaning for the following passage from RK Narayan's "Like the Sun": "He never anticipated his musical inclinations would lead him to this trial."
Sekhar dreads critiquing the headmaster's singing
Which of the following sentences best expresses Rosenblatt's purpose for writing as expressed by his whole essay "The Man in the Water?"
The man in the water reminds us of the human potential that resides in each one of us
This conflict resulted in Rome's defeat of Hannibal, and it marked the beginning of the Roman conquest of Greece.
The second punic war
The theme of "And of Clay Are We Created" can best be stated as:
When one tries to keep people at a distance, one is not really living, one is not really free
The theme of "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury is:
When technology replaces nature, it ends up destroying us.
Who was Jennie Wade?
a civilian woman who was killed while asking bread in her kitchen
The original conflict behind the Trojan war began at a wedding when they goddess of discord threw ____________ into the banquet hall.
a golden apple
In the Trojan War, which of the following characters fights on the side of the Greeks?
achilles
place where Elie would later encounter a woman whose charity involved throwing coins to children who desperately fought over them.
aden
The Chorus in a greek tragedy performs which of the following functions?
all of the above {link between audience and actors, interprets events of the play, character within the play}
The mask in Classical Greek theater served which of the following purposes:
all of the above {one actor to play multiple roles, made facial expression more visible, ritualistic feel}
Ukiyo-e can be described as:
all of the above {the art of Japanese woodblock prints, pictures of the floating world, having simple subjects such as landscape scenes}
Haruki Murakami's story begins when the seventh man speaks. Most of the story he relates is:
an example of flashback
The Shinto story of Izinagi and Izinami can be classified as a __________________ because it is similar to creation myths in other cultures.
archetype
the narrator believes that Rolf Carlé has become a journalist:
as a way of protecting himself from the past
concentration camp whose iron gate bears the inscription: work makes you free
auschwitz
In order to make the Trojans believe that the Greeks had returned home, they had to hide their ships from view but keep them close enough for a quick return. Where did the Greek fleet hide?
behind the island of tenedos
The main consequence of hubris is found in:
blindness
place at which Elie's father dies:
buchenwald
concentration camp at which Elie has his surgery.
buna
Which of the following events does Rolf Carlé remember during the time he spends with Azucena?
burying bodies at a concentration camp
in which of the following modes is the hero inferior to bother others and nature?
comedy
Which of the following best describes how the headmaster probably feels after Sekhar's critique of his performance?
crushed to realize that he has no musical talent
The play cannot be understood fully if we forget that its subject {in a real sense} is the ruling house of thebes and the:
curse upon it, with sin begetting further sins
who was the head of the work block who was accused of blowing up a power station and stockpiling weapons?
dutch oberkapo
Sinon's speech in Book II of the Aeneid seeks to persuade the Trojans to bring the horse into their city by most powerfully appealing to their:
emotions
In the Aeneid, Aenas's name most often appears with the adjective "Pious." Such a characterizing word or phrase with a person's name is known as a(n):
epithet
Which is the final stanza of an ode during which the Chorus would have stood?
epode
who says "I have got more faith in hitler than in anyone else. he's the only one who's kept his promises to the jewish people?"
faceless man in the Buna hospital
true/false: at the end of antigone, creon returns from Antigone's tomb while carrying the wife of his body Eurydice
false
According to the 7th man, what was K. like?
frail
work foreman who forces Elie to surrender his gold crown/
frank
A type of poem meant to give instructions on farming and the title of one of Virgil's works.
georgic
How does Okeke show that he is a bit more progrerssive than his neighbors?
he refuses to use a witch doctor to cure his son, calling such practices superstitious
How does the narrator's life change when he returns to his hometown after many years of absence? {7th man}
he resolves his inner conflict about K.'s death
Though a foreigner to Thebes, Oedipus is initially made King because:
he solves the riddle of the Sphinx
why does croon have Antigone sealed in a vault of stone rather directly executing her by stone?
he wants to escape personal punishment that may arise from the fact that Antigone is a member of his family
Rome welcomed aspects of Greek culture, making them part of Roman life. Such appreciation or love for Greek Culture is called:
hellenism
the kapo of Elie's work block at Buna who forces 100 men to work on Sunday so that he can meet with a polish girl. he gives Elie 25 lashes.
idek
Joanne Hyppolite's essay "Dyaspora" is unusual in that it is written:
in second person
Murakami believes that the Japanese prosperity of the 1960s has contributed to Japan's:
increased consumerism
In "The Seventh Man" Murakami writes, "By then the wave had turned and, with a wild cry, it was rushing back out to sea. It looked like part of a gigantic rug that had been yanked by someone at the other end of the earth." What is significant about the last sentence?
it expresses a modern simile
from this passage, which line could best be applied to the adult Tokechae as a way to understand why he does not immediately run away when Songsam unties him? then and there the two boys had dashed off to the field. that they would be found out and punished had no longer mattered; all they cared about was the fate of their crane. Without a moments delay, still out of breath from running, they untied the crane's feet and wings, but the bird could hardly walk. It must have been weak from having been bound
it must have been weak from having been bound
a violinist who plays the most beautiful music Elie has ever heard:
juliek
who says "Fire? I can see fire! I can see fire!"?
madame schachetsr
jewish mystic and master of the Kabbalah. his warnings to the people of Sighet who go unheeded.
mice
In her poem Exile, Julia Alvarez includes the following stanza: "Weeks later wandering our new city, hand in hand, you tried to explain the wonders: escalators as moving belts; elevators: pulleys and ropes; blonde hair and blue eyes: a genetic code" which of the following is a valid inference that can be drawn from the above stanza?
more technology is present in the United States rather than in the Dominican Republic
As punishment for her crime, this queen of thebes was turned into a weeping pillar of stone:
niobe
the thesis of Sagan's "On Nuclear Disarmament" can BEST be stated as:
nuclear weapons have not made us safe
the chorus' first ode claims that the glories of humanity can only be maintained by:
obedience to the law
"The Chairman's outline has omitted one point from the original agenda" using the diction found in the statement, it can best be described as :
objective
The word dyaspora in Hyppolite's essay refers to:
people from Haiti who have settled in Boston
this man searches for his son from who he was separated during the evacuation from Buna.
rabbi eliahou
carlé moves from objective reporter to subjective participant in another's life when he:
radios the station for a water pump
in China Achebe's "Marriage is a Private Affair," Okeke is upset with his son Nnaemeka because Nnaemeka:
refuses Okeke's choice of a wife for him
Virgil mocks sinon by exposing his rhetorical practices that trick people into believing as true what is in fact untrue. Such a literary form of mockery is best classified as:
satire
The organizational structure of "There Will Come Soft Rains" can BEST be described as:
sequence- chronology
Rolf Carlé helps comfort Azucena during her struggle by:
staying by her side from the moment he meets her
distant relative whom Elie meets at auschwitz. Elie falsely assures him that his family is safe.
stein of Antwerp
"the chairman's warped sense of organization has led to these troubling disagreements" using the diction found in the statement, it can best be characterized as:
subjective
The central metaphor present in the poem "Exile" compares the family's flight from the Dominican Republic to:
swimming
When Songsam and Tokechae were boys, someone had come to their town with a permit to catch cranes. The narrator observes that: then and there the two boys had dashed off to the field. that they would be found out and punished had no longer mattered; all they cared about was the fate of their crane. Without a moments delay, still out of breath from running, they untied the crane's feet and wings, but the bird could hardly walk. It must have been weak from having been bound which line in the above passage best illustrates that the two boys are more concerned about doing what is right than doing what society wants?
that they would be found out and punished had no longer mattered; all they cared about was the fate of their crane.
"On Nuclear Disarmament" is a speech delivered by Carl Sagan at which of the following events:
the 125th anniversary of battle of Gettysburg
Sagan points to failures in the use of technology as a way of demonstrating that technological safeguards do not always work. which of the following incidents does Sagan use in his speech?
the Chernobyl nuclear power accident in Russia
Through they are from the same town, what has caused enmity between Tokechae and Songsam in "Cranes"?
the Korean War
How does nature seem to take Nene's side in her request to have the grandchildren visit Okeke? {marriage is a private affair}
the drumming of the raIn on the roof prevents Okeke from humming a hymn to ward off the temptation to give into Nene's request
Roman history is divided into three main time periods: the monarchy, the republic, and __________________.
the empire
which of the following statements about the setting and duration of the play is correct?
the entire play takes place in front of creon's palace on one day
Which of the following statements is NOT true about the genre of the epic?
the epic has a simple style and describes ordinary people in their everyday lives
The main characters in Hwang Sunwon's "Cranes" find themselves on opposite sides. What element of the story most contributes to their reconciliation?
the natural landscape of the demilitarized zone
what is most distinct about this passage from Hyppolite's essay? A dyaspora child must "kiss every check, some of them heavy with face powder, some of the damp with perspiration, some of them with scratchy face hair, and some of them giving you a perfume head-rush as you swoop in."
the passage appeals to the senses
Emily Dickinson wrote that one should "tell the Truth but tell it slant." This verse of poetry is based upon an implied metaphor, one in which the truth is compared to:
the sun
According to Aristotle, a tragic hero must have 3 essential characteristics. Which of the following is NOT an essential characteristic of a tragic hero:
the tragic hero must die in the end
Moishe witnessed this tailor who begged to die before his sons were:
toble
true/false: besides the chorus, only 3 people were allowed to play characters in the greek tragedies of the fifth century BC.
true
true/false: in antigone, creon accuses Teiresias of making prophecies based on bribes.
true
true/false: priam is the king of Troy
true
true/false: the earliest greek performances probably consisted of singers in goat skin
true
true/false: usually once the chorus entered the performance, it did not exist until the end of the play.
true
true/false: women did not perform in Classical Greek theatre
true
In Sinon's story told to the Trojans, who brings about the death of Palamedes through false accusations?
ulysses
In "And of Clay Are We Created," one can appreciate the author's perspective in the story better if one knows that Isabel Allende:
was a highly respected journalist in her native land
At the end of the story, the narrator's perspective on Rolf Carlé is that she believes he:
will need some time before his emotional wounds heal
one of two Czech brothers whose parents were killed at Birkenau:
yossi
