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Which is NOT an antiwar work?
A) The Trojan Women—Euripides
B) Lysistrata—Aristophanes
C) War and Peace—Leo Tolstoy
D) A Rumor of War—Philip Caputo
E) Armies of the Night—Norman Mailer - ✔️✔️The correct answer is C.War is part of Tolstoy's
universal vision
Match the author with his book.
Ernest Hemingway
A) The Great Gatsby
B) In Our Time
C) The Enormous Room
D) An American Tragedy
E) Main Street - ✔️✔️The correct answer is B.This was Hemingway's first book
Match the author with his book.
Theodore Dreiser
A) The Great Gatsby
B) In Our Time
C) The Enormous Room
D) An American Tragedy
E) Main Street - ✔️✔️The correct answer is D.Dreiser wrote of the harsh realities of urban life.
,Match the author with his book.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A) The Great Gatsby
B) In Our Time
C) The Enormous Room
D) An American Tragedy
E) Main Street - ✔️✔️The correct answer is A.This book is a comment on the single-minded
pursuit of the American Dream.
The modern traditions of romantic love are first seen in
A) medieval England.
B) the French court of Louis XIV.
C) the Provenal poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
D) Renaissance Italy.
E) late eighteenth-century Germany - ✔️✔️The correct answer is C.Sometimes these conventions
of love are referred to as the courtly love tradition
In which Greek tragedy was the hero's father murdered in his bath after returning from Troy?
A) The Oresteia
B) Oedipus at Thebes
C) The Trojan Women
D) The Greek Passion
E) The Thebeid - ✔️✔️The correct answer is A.The The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, is usually dated
around 468 B.C.E. Choices B and C are a single play. Choice D is by the modern Greek writer
Nicholas Kanzantzakis. Choice E is a medieval work
Which modern American poet is associated with Paterson, New Jersey?
A) Ezra Pound
,B) Marianne Moore
C) Erica Jong
D) William Carlos Williams
E) Robert Frost - ✔️✔️The correct answer is D.Williams was a doctor who observed the everyday
and gave it universal meaning through his poetry
Which play does NOT include a significant mother-son relationship?
A) Oedipus the King
B) Antigone
C) Hamlet
D) The Libation Bearers
E) Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mammas Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin So Sad - ✔️✔️The correct
answer is B.The relationship here is brother-sister
Who is the chief exponent of so-called Old Comedy?
A) Aristophanes
B) Menander
C) Plautus
D) Moliere
E) Shakespeare - ✔️✔️The correct answer is A.The others, in order, represent Middle, choice B,
Roman, choice C, Neoclassical, choice D, and Romantic, choice E
Who wrote this line about Helen of Troy: "Is this the face that launched a thousand ships?"
A) William Shakespeare
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) John Webster
D) Richard Sheridan
, E) James Joyce - ✔️✔️The correct answer is B.Christopher Marlowe, in The Tragical History of
Doctor Faustus
Who is Barbara Cartland?
A) An American writer of murder mysteries
B) An English writer of historical romantic biographies
C) An English politician
D) An advocate of women's rights
E) An American writer of Gothic tales - ✔️✔️The correct answer is B.Barbara Cartland's writing is
the forerunner of the Romantic genre that focuses on a woman of virtue seeking the love of the
perfect man
The Roman Republic favored which of the following philosophies?
A) Zoroastrianism
B) Skepticism
C) Stoicism
D) Existentialism
E) Despair - ✔️✔️The correct answer is C.Stocisim reflects the hand that Fate plays in human life.
It is often characterized by a strong, silent attitude that accepts life as it is. This attitude led the
Romans to rule the world because they saw such rule as their Fate—such belief was
championed by Virgil's The Aeneid
Imitative counterpoint was a popular method of composition during which period?
A) Greek
B) Medieval (European)
C) Medieval (Chinese)
D) European Renaissance
E) European Baroque - ✔️✔️The correct answer is D.Near the beginning of the seventeenth
century (European Renaissance), Joseph Fux, a leading theorist, formulated a set of rules in the
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