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FINAL EXAM World Literature

MATCHING: Write the letter of the correct answer in the blank.

_______ 1. Who became a student of Plato when he was eighteen and mastered every field of
learning known to the Greeks?
A. Aristotle C. Plutarch
B. Socrates D. Shakespeare
_______ 2. Who was one of Socrates’ students and become one of the greatest philosophers of
all time?
A. Aristotle C. Plutarch
B. Socrates D. Plato

_______ 3. What part of Greek drama was delivered when the chorus was stationary?
A. epode C. catastrophe
B. strophe D. antistrophe
_______ 4. What part of Greek drama was recited as they turned and moved in the opposite
direction?
A. epode C. catastrophe
B. strophe D. antistrophe

_______ 5. What part of Greek drama was recited as the chorus moved in one direction across
the stage?
A. epode C. catastrophe
B. strophe D. antistrophe

_______ 6. Who was the Greek dramatist who lived about 400 years before Christ and wrote
Antigone?
A. Sophocles C. Plutarch
B. Aristotle D. Plato

_______ 7. What is something that interrupts a static situation often in the form of a new
character?
A. inciting force C. Socrates
B. Aristotle D. Creon

_______ 8. What is a play that ends happily?

A. things that are multi-colored C. things that play a flute
B. things that are baked in a pie D. things that are the same color
_______ 9. What refers to the final outcome or resolution where all loose ends are tied up?
A. catastrophe C. auditorium
B. inciting force D. denouement

 _______ 10. What type of play deals with the serious, the sad, and the catastrophic aspects of
life?
A. tragedy C. inciting force
B. comedy D. falling action
_______ 11. Who became a student of Plato when he was eighteen and mastered every field of
learning known to the Greeks?
A. Aristotle C. Plutarch
B. Socrates D. Shakespeare
_______ 12. Who was one of Socrates’ students and become one of the greatest philosophers of
all time?
A. Aristotle C. Plutarch
B. Socrates D. Plato

_______ 13. What part of Greek drama was delivered when the chorus was stationary?
A. epode C. catastrophe
B. strophe D. antistrophe
_______ 14. What part of Greek drama was recited as they turned and moved in the opposite
direction?
A. epode C. catastrophe
B. strophe D. antistrophe

_______ 15. What part of Greek drama was recited as the chorus moved in one direction across
the stage?
A. epode C. catastrophe
B. strophe D. antistrophe

_______ 16. Who was the Greek dramatist who lived about 400 years before Christ and wrote
Antigone?
A. Sophocles C. Plutarch
B. Aristotle D. Plato

_______ 17. What is something that interrupts a static situation often in the form of a new
character?
A. inciting force C. Socrates
B. Aristotle D. Creon

_______ 18. What is a play that ends happily?

A. things that are multi-colored C. things that play a flute
B. things that are baked in a pie D. things that are the same color
_______ 19. What refers to the final outcome or resolution where all loose ends are tied up?
A. catastrophe C. auditorium
B. inciting force D. denouement

 _______ 20. What type of play deals with the serious, the sad, and the catastrophic aspects of
life?
A. tragedy C. inciting force
B. comedy D. falling action

_______ 21. What is a comment made to the audience that the other characters are not supposed
to have heard?
A. aside C. epode
B. action D. soliloquy

_______ 22. What is a speech by one character alone on the stage?

A. aside C. epode
B. action D. soliloquy
_______ 23. Who wrote “Death Be Not Proud”?
A. John Donne C. Alexander Pope
B. John Keats D. Homer
_______ 24. Who was the blind poet who wrote Iliad and the Odyssey?
A. John Donne C. Alexander Pope
B. John Keats D. Homer
_______ 25. Who wrote “Christian Perfection” and influenced John and Charles Wesley?
A. William Law C. Baard
B. John Weightman D. Israel Per Persson
_______ 26. Who wrote “The Mansion”?
A. William Law C. Oliver Wendell Holmes
B. John Weightman D. Henry Van Dyke
_______ 27. Who wrote “Contentment”?
A. William Law C. Oliver Wendell Holmes
B. John Weightman D. Henry Van Dyke
_______ 28. What is a fourteen-line poem (usually written in iambic pentameter) with a definite
pattern of two basic varieties, Italian or English?
A. Joseph Addison C. John Keats
B. Gerard Manley Hopkins D. John Milton
_______ 29. “To Build a Fire” is set in ______.
A. the Sahara C. the Yukon
B. the Alps D. Mt. Everest
_______ 30. What is the greatest Book of all time?
A. the Bible C. the Bible
B. the Bible D. the Bible