DWC Quiz Questions

Which ONE of the following is FALSE about the Greek polis?

The agora was an elevated and fortified place where temples were located.

Which ONE is FALSE concerning the Great Peloponnesian War?

Pericles refused to use the Delian League as an instrument of imperialism.

In the reading for seminar today, what does Queen Jocasta do when the apparent truth about her marriage to Oedipus is revealed?

She ends her life

In the reading for today, Oedipus blinds himself and asks to be exiled from Thebes. What does this choice most clearly represent?

His acceptance of guilt

Which ONE was an idea expressed in Pericles’ “Funeral Oration”?

He said that Sparta was a model for others to follow.

Which ONE is TRUE concerning the rise of Athenian democracy?

Under Cleisthenes, all adult male citizens could vote, whether they owned property or not.

As discussed in the lecture on Oedipus the King, in ancient Athenian culture the Dionysia was:

A multi-day religious festival honoring Dionysius

The original audiences who saw Oedipus the King in Athens would have been shocked by the play because it was an entirely new story which the playwright Sophocles invented.

False

Many things are revealed in the reading for today. During these revelations, what key piece of information confirms Oedipus’s true identity?

The scars on his feet from being bound as an infant

As discussed in the lecture on Oedipus the King, "harmartia" is an important term for tragedy. The term "harmartia" means:

Missing the mark

To whom or what does Socrates compare himself - implicitly, or explicitly - during the course of his speeches in The Apology?

All answers given

Who were the "Thirty Tyrants" who ruled in Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War?

A brutal oligarchy, modeled on the Spartan regime

Which of the following wrote original testimony about the figure of Socrates and his peculiar way of the life?

Xenophon

Which of the following is NOT studied in Socrates' Thinkery?

How to live a virtuous life

Near the beginning of The Apology, Socrates claims divine sanction for his mission from which god, or gods?

Apollo, the god who speaks at Delphi

How does the Clouds end?

Strepsiades burns down the Thinkery, as Socrates and his pupils attempt to flee.

According to Socrates in The Apology, in what does his wisdom consist?

Knowing what he doesn't know

Why is Strepiades so deep in debt to his creditors? 

He indulges his son's horse related hobbies

How do Better and Worse Argument (or, Just and Unjust Speech) characterize the prominent men in Athenian society?

Gaping assholes

Which answer best describes the argument Pheidippides uses to convince his father, Strepsiades, that beating one's father is good?

Law is not rooted in nature, but convention. Laws are arbitrary, human products.

In the speech of Eryximachus, what profession is said to be guided everywhere by the god of Love (Erōs)?

Medicine

Before the formal speeches begin, which god does Agathon invoke as "the judge" to his and Socrates' claims to wisdom?

Dionysus

To whom, or what does Alcibiades compare Socrates in the drunken speech he gives at the end of Agathon's party?

All answers given

In the speech of Phaedrus, which of the following erotic heroes is NOT invoked: 

Alcibiades

According to Aristodemus, what was the last thing he remembers Socrates speaking about with Agathon and Aristophanes at daybreak after the party?

That authors should be able to write both comedy and tragedy

In the account Socrates gives of his instruction by Diotima, what is Love (Erōs) revealed to be?

A great spirit, or daimōn

In the speech of Aristophanes, what does the god Hephaestus offer as a solution to the deepest desire of lovers?

To be welded together as one whole, making one life out of two, forever

According to Diotima, what do lovers seek when they are in love?

To possess the good forever

In the speech of Pausanias, what does he claim the lover who follows the guidance of the Heavenly Aphrodite (and the Heavenly Love) desire for his beloved?

That the young man become wiser and better

Which of the following terms of praise for Love (Erōs) appears in the speech of Agathon?

Delicate

According to Aristotle, a moral virtue is always the __________ between two extremes.

mean

In Book 1 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle says the ultimate reason why we humans do things is __________.

happiness

In the reading for seminar today, Aristotle identifies several types of friendship. He says that older people mostly have friendships of ____________.

utility

Aristotle was the long-time student of which Greek philosopher?

Plato

In Book 1, Aristotle argues that "The _________ is that at which all things aim."

good

For Aristotle, humans become happy by being ______.

virtuous

In Book 10, Aristotle says the happiness of contemplation occurs when a human is _________.

at leisure

In the reading for seminar today, Aristotle identifies several types of friendship. He says that young people mostly have friendships of _______.

pleasure

Generally speaking, the philosophical positions of Plato and Aristotle are fundamentally:

different

For Aristotle, ethics is the study of:

happiness

Which ONE was NOT a policy of Emperor Augustus Caesar?

He ruled openly as a dictator.

Which of the following causes is TRUE for the decline of the Late Roman Republic?

Armies were loyal to their individual commanders rather than the Roman state.

Who assassinated Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, 44 B.C.?

Brutus and Cassius

The "First Triumvirate" consisted of:

Pompey, Crassus, Julius Caesar

The Roman Republic ended with the rise of Augustus Caesar in the year ______. (Choose the correct date below:)

27 BC

The attitude of Suetonius, the biographer of Augustus Caesar is best described as:

Sometimes critical, other times, praising Augustus.

Which ONE is FALSE about Suetonius’ "The Life of Augustus";?

It said nothing about Augustus’ domestic policies such as providing public games.

According to "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus": (Make this true).

Augustus claimed that his seizure of power was with Senatorial and popular approval.

Which ONE of the following is TRUE concerning the early Roman Republic?

Oligarchical government was the result of the Struggle of the Orders.

In what city was Julius Caesar killed?

Rome

How is the terrible wound which Aeneas suffers in Book 12 finally healed?

His mother Venus comes down with a special plant used to treat him

"Wars and a man I sing." Thus begins the first line of The Aeneid. The "man" being referred to here is Caesar Augustus.

False

Which of these burns in The Aeneid?

All three of these

In Book 1, Aeneas and his comrades wash up on the shores of ____________________.

Carthage

Which Greek author was a major source of inspiration and influence for Virgil?

Homer

The hero Aeneas is best known for his:

Pietas

In Book 6, how does the spirit of Dido react when Aeneas speaks to her?

She turns away and says nothing

Why does Aeneas travel to the Underworld in Book 6?

He wants to visit his father

How does Book 12 of The Aeneid end?

Aeneas kills Turnus in a fit of rage

In Book 12, it is agreed that this war between the Trojans and native Italian forces will be decided by:

Single combat between Aeneas and Turnus

During Augustine’s education in Carthage he reads a book called Hortensius that changed his life. What did it contain that so moved him?

An exhortation to philosophy

Fill in the blank: “You have made us and drawn us to yourself and our heart is unquiet until it _______________ in you.”

rests

According to the “Passion of St. Perpetua”, Perpetua was changed into a _______ in one of her visions before she died: (Choose the correct answer):

man

According to Augustine, which phrase best captures his purpose in writing “the thirteen books of [his] Confessions”?

to praise God

Who is the Christian bishop Augustine meets after Augustine leaves Rome to become “a master of rhetoric” in Milan?

Ambrose

“The best way to characterize the genre of Augustine’s Confessions is autobiography.”

False

True or False: “Augustine lived with a woman as a young man without marrying her.”

True

Why does Augustine say he stole the fruit from the pear tree? (Think: what was his motive for stealing?)

There was no motive other than malice

Which of the following is an innovation of Emperor Constantine which changed Diocletian’s previous policies?

He granted toleration of all religions, including Christianity in the Empire.

To ensure an orderly succession of imperial power, Emperor Diocletian:

created a tetrarchy of four men—two co-emperors, and two caesars; the latter two would eventually become the new co-emperors.

Choose the best answer: What is the primary intellectual lesson that Augustine learns from Ambrose of Milan?

How to read Scripture, especially the Old Testament, spiritually

Which ONE of the following is FALSE concerning Roman art?

Romans innovated by inventing the post and lintel system.

Fill in the blank: "Not yet was I humble enough to grasp the humble ______________ as my God, nor did I know what his weakness had to teach."

Jesus

Choose the best answer: In Milan, who teaches Augustine a value lesson about the pursuit of temporal happiness?

A poor, drunken beggar

Choose the best answer: Under what tree do Augustine's tears over his past life begin to flow freely "as an acceptable sacrifice" to God?

A fig tree

Which of the following is an artistic example of Roman imperial propaganda?

The Arch of Constantine

Choose the best answer: At the end of Book 9, what does Augustine ask the reader?

To remember Monica, his mother, and Patricius, his father, at the Eucharistic altar

Choose the best answer: Who appears in a vision to Augustine to offer him "the gift of chastity"?

Lady Continence

Which ONE is TRUE about the “Pantheon”?

Its design included a cylindrical drum and columns.

Choose the best answer: Which philosophical school exerted the biggest influence over Augustine’s intellectual development towards the Catholic faith?

Platonism