CLST 2101 (moodle quizzes)
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When Robert Kennedy announced the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, he quoted what Greek author from what work :
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Aeschylus; Agamemnon
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What Greek author and what work was turned into a modern gospel musical?
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Sophocles; Oedipus at Colonus
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The last book in the Harry Potter series quotes what Greek author from what work :
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Aeschylus; Libation Bearers
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What Greek tragedy by what author is equally famous as a French version from World War II?
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Sophocles; Antigone
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The eponymous characters of Plato's Protagoras and Gorgias are part of a group of intellectuals known as:
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Sophists
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Xenophon's Hellenica is a sequel to
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Thucydides' history
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What prominent person from the Peloponnesian War makes an appearance in Plato's Symposium?
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Alcibiades
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What popular Greek orator prosecuted an agent of the Thirty Tyrants?
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Lysias
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The historical Cyrus the Great (idealized in Xenophon's fictionalized biography the Cyropaedia) lived when in relation to Xenophon?
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He lived two centuries before Xenophon.
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The Rosetta Stone company uses the name because:
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the Rosetta Stone is of monumental importance in the history of language translation.
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Eureka is a Greek word that means:
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I found it!
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Euclid is used today mostly in classes about _____
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geometry
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Which Roman emperor's palace was used in the filming of Season 4 of Game of Thrones?
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Diocletian
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The movie "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" incorporates elements from what ancient Greek work?
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Lucian's True History
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The 1964 movie The Fall of the Roman Empire reckons the death of which emperor as marking the decline of Rome?
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Marcus Aurelius
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The documentary series "Ancient Discoveries" has an episode devoted to what "machine man"?
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Hero of Alexandria
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In 1993, author Donna Tartt had a popular novel about the murder of a Greek student at a small, elite college. Its title, The Secret History, alludes to what?
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A scandalous expose of the Byzantine emperor Justinian.
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The city of Constantinople was originally founded as a Greek colony in the
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Archaic Period
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The Byzantine scholar Pletho made a sensational impact in Italy with the writings of what Classical Greek author?
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Plato
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The movie Agora (2009) focused on the life of
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Hypatia
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Early Church Fathers incorporated the mechanisms of what pagan philosophy to discuss theology?
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Neoplatonism
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Because of the Fourth Crusade, many valuable objects from Constantinople are now where?
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Treasury of San Marco, Venice
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Pletho lectured on a Greek author from what period?
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Classical Period (4th century)
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Percy Shelley's Hellas adapts a Greek play from what period?
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Classical Period (5th century)
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Baton Rouge has a Greek restaurant named for what famous figure from Greek literature?
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Zorba's
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Michael Cacoyannis made three movies based on the works of a Greek author from what period?
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Classical Period (4th century)
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Martin Scorsese directed a movie whose story derives from ancient Greek writings from what period?
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Roman Imperial period
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Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες refers to what?
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the Olympics
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Greek director Michael Cacoyannis made films of what Greek plays :
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Euripides Electra , Euripides Trojan Women , Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis
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The first Greek Orthodox church in the Americas was in
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New Orleans
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Theodoros Angelopoulos' 1995 film Ulysses' Gaze invokes what ancient Greek work?
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Odyssey
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The archaeology of Prehistoric Greece confirms what about Homer's version of the Trojan War?
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Some passages in the Iliad describe real types of weapons
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Because of its history, which city has been understandably (but mistakenly) linked to the story of the lost city of Atlantis?
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Akrotiri
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The geometric style of Greek art (such as the famous "Greek Key") spans what transition?
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The Dark Age to the Archaic Period
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The Minoans left what legacy to Classical Greece?
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A vestigial awareness of early Cretan civilization.
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From the Bronze Age to Archaic Greece, what happens to the writing of Greek?
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Bronze Age writing is lost and a new form of writing appears in Archaic Greece.
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Alexander the Great visited Troy as he began his journey of conquest. What did he visit there?
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A tourist site devoted to Troy and the Trojan War.
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In terms of modern geography, the Trojan War involves what two countries?
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Greece and Turkey
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The working of bronze in Greece required what?
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Importing some of the materials needed
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The archaeological discoveries of Prehistoric Greece took place during what period in the history of Greece?
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Modern Greece
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The history of Bronze Age and Dark Age Greece illustrates what principle best?
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"Build it up. Tear it down again."
