Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Why does Kreon forbid Polyneikes’s burial? Why does Kreon forbid Polyneikes’s burial?
Answer Options:
Polyneikes had called Oedipus from Thebes and this did not deserve to be buried there.
Polyneikes had invaded his own Thebes; one is not buried in one’s own blood.
Kreon and Polyneikes had been bitter rivals.
Polyneikes had an army against Thebes.
Polyneikes was a child of Oedipus and Iokaste and thus accursed.
Answer: Polyneikes had an army against Thebes.
Question: Women who were like which kind of animal were the only ones favorably described by Semonides?
Answer Options:
Bee
bees
Answer: bees
Question: Who in the Underworld begs Odysseus for proper burial?
Answer Options:
Achilles
Elpenor
Sisyphus
Agamemnon
Tiresias
Answer: Elpenor
Question: Which historical figure who was alive when Vergil was composing the ‘Aeneid’ does Aeneas see in the Underworld?
Answer Options:
Aemilius Paulus
Cato the Elder
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Romulus
Answer: Julius Caesar
Question: Which animal does Isis tell Lucius is most hateful to her?
Answer Options:
donkey
the donkey
asses
an ass
Answer: the donkey
Question: Which of the following is known to be true of Homer?
Answer Options:
He made up the entire story of the ‘Iliad’
He wrote both the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’
He made up the entire story of the ‘Odyssey’
He was blind
He composed his poetry orally
Answer: He composed his poetry orally
Question: Which character in one of the Satire Kyniska tales, like Soteira, had once gone off on a “quest for wisdom,” seeking Thoth’s book of magic?
Answer Options:
Sis Q
Pri
Melouchine
Afentev
Nausfledaesch
Answer: Sis Q
Question: Herodotus devoted more than 30% of “The Histories” to Egypt not because the Egyptians played a crucial role in the Greco-Persian Wars, but because the land itself had an abundance of interesting things.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Just as in “Alexander or the False Prophet” Lucian told of his visit to Abonuteichos and confrontation with Alexander the Lover of Lies” he describes his visit to Egypt and his encounter with the crocodile-riding magician Panchrates.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Where are the wild female worshipers of Dionysus in the ‘Bacchae’ to be found?
Answer Options:
Cithaeron
Mountain
Vineyard
Lake
Cave
Answer: Cithaeron
Question: Which ‘Homeric Hymn’ tells a story that primarily served to warn listeners not to disrespect the gods, or else there could be serious consequences?
Answer Options:
Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Homeric Hymn to Dionysus
Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Homeric Hymn to Apollo
Answer: Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Question: According to Herodotus, the backwards behavior of the Egyptians – the women going to the marketplace and the men staying home to weave, etc. – can be associated with which geographical feature?
Answer Options:
nile river
Nile
Nile River
the Nile River
Answer: Nile
Question: Sophocles was such a prolific playwright that he frequently had his plays opening and being performed in several different Athenian theatres at the same time, becoming quite rich from this.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: While in Egypt, Alexander the Great traveled to Alexandria to consult the oracle of Ammon, inquiring about the death of his father.
Answer Options:
True
False
Answer: True
Question: Which Greco-Roman god sometimes served a role that might be considered that of a ‘phallic scarecrow’?
Answer Options:
Priapus
Priapus
Priapus
Answer: Priapus