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CLCV2010 Greek and Roman Drama Carleton General Information Quiz

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Question 1

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What is the Greek term for "The Rascal" and which kind of comedy is it found in?
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  • Poneros and New Comedy.
  • Poneros and Old Comedy.
  • Maccus and New Comedy.
  • Pandehos and New Comedy.

Question 2

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The Straight Man is...
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  • The Studidios
  • The Spoudios
  • The Seneca
  • The Stoudian
  • The Spoudias

Question 3

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Bomohocos is...
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  • The Braggart.
  • The Fool.
  • The Buffoon.
  • The Clown.
  • The Rascal.

Question 4

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The Braggart is called...in Greek and is found in...Comedy.
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  • Alazon, Old.
  • Alazon, New.
  • Amazon, Middle.
  • Agazon, Old.
  • Amatis, Middle.

Question 5

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Old Comedy uses...
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  • Poneros, Spoudios, Bomohochos, Alazon.
  • Cantehos, Ferdinandos, Pietus, Belezon.
  • Maccus, Bucco, Pappus, Mandecus, Dossenus.
  • The Respectable Girl, The Married Woman, The Hetaera.

Question 6

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Before Plautus and Terence, there were these non-literary dramatic forms:
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  • Fescenine, Saturae and Abellan Farces.
  • Fescenine, Saturae and Andellan Farces.
  • Fallacies, Saturday and Andy's Faces.
  • Fescenine, Saturae and Atellan Farces.

Question 7

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In Atellan Farces, The Clown Figure is...
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  • Bucco.
  • Pappus.
  • Manducus.
  • Dossenus.
  • Maccus.

Question 8

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In Atellan Farces, The Braggart is...
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  • Bucco.
  • Pappus.
  • Dossenus.
  • Manducus.
  • Maccus.

Question 9

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The Stupid Old Man is...
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  • Bucco.
  • Pappus.
  • Dossenus.
  • Manducus.
  • Maccus.

Question 10

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The Trickster is...
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  • Bucco.
  • Pappus.
  • Dossenus.
  • Manducus.
  • Maccus.

Question 11

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The Glutton is...
Answer
  • Bucco.
  • Pappus.
  • Dossenus.
  • Manducus.
  • Maccus.

Question 12

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A Roman characteristic Terence displayed was...
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  • Humanitas, i.e. Taking other people into account.
  • Humanitas, i.e. The study of a wide variety of human pursuits.
  • Inhumanitas, i.e. cruelty.
  • Insubordinatas, i.e. not bowing to anybody.

Question 13

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The Roman virtue of taking oneself seriously was called:
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  • Severitas
  • Hamartia
  • Pietas
  • Sapienta
  • Fortitudo
  • Gravitas
  • Temperantia
  • Iustitia

Question 14

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The Roman virtue of discipline and being hard on one's self is...
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  • Gravitas.
  • Omnibus.
  • Pentheus.
  • Severitas.
  • Dossenus.
  • Pietas.

Question 15

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The Roman virtue of loyalty to one's parents and fatherland is...
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  • Veritas.
  • Pietas.
  • Severitas.
  • Gravitas.
  • A certain...je ne sais quoi.
  • Definitely not Bacchanalian.
  • Exotic favours.

Question 16

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Stock characters include:
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  • Assorted family members, the occasional goat, gods, Ishtar and me.
  • Cooks, nurses, slaves and parasites.
  • Cooks, guards, children and drunkards.
  • Slaves, women, soldiers and children.
  • Drunkards, children, slaves and cooks.

Question 17

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Aristophanes had how many people in his chorus? And how many people were in tragic choruses at the time?
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  • 20, 15.
  • 22, 16.
  • 24, 18.
  • 24, 20.
  • 24, 15.
  • 22, 18.
  • 20, 16.

Question 18

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A buskin was known as a...
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  • Bucco.
  • Nimis.
  • Jullis.
  • Flops.
  • Kothornos.
  • Haetarai.

Question 19

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An Ekphasis is...
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  • An internal monologue.
  • An expository prologue.
  • A long speech performed without taking a single breath.

Question 20

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Comedy means...
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  • Revel Song.
  • Goat Song.

Question 21

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The winter comedic festival was called the...
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  • Lenaia
  • Laney
  • Dionysia
  • Dionysiad
  • Bacchae

Question 22

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An Agon is...
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  • A long speech delivered in a single breath.
  • A doomed character.
  • An internal monologue.
  • An external prologue.
  • A buskin.
  • A direct address to the audience with the main actor "playing" the playwright.
  • A competition or debate.

Question 23

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A Parabasis is...
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  • A long speech performed in a single breath.
  • A contest or debate.
  • A direct address to the audience with the main actor "playing" the playwright and bringing up some past beef.

Question 24

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New Comedy has to have (three answers):
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  • A noble character.
  • A Bucco.
  • A Poneros.
  • A Menaechmi or double.
  • A young character trying to escape some authority.
  • A clever slave.
  • An expository prologue.
  • An internal monologue.
  • A reference to Roman institutions or leaders.
  • A happy ending.

Question 25

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Who's work is closer to reality?
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  • Menander
  • Aristophanes

Question 26

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Greek play adaptations are...
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  • Fabulae Palliatae
  • Fabulae Togatae

Question 27

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Seneca lived between...
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  • c.9-10 BCE - 50 CE.
  • c. 40 BCE -20 CE.
  • c. 4-5 BCE - 65 CE.
  • The beginning and time and forever. Since he changes with the times, he will live forever! (Much like our dear Dr. Beer and Ovid too).

Question 28

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The Golden Age of Roman Literature (Or the Augustan Age) began around...
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  • The end of the last century BCE.
  • The second century CE.

Question 29

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The Lenia started around...
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  • 440-441 BCE.
  • 445-446 BCE.
  • 365-367 BCE.
  • c.500 BCE.

Question 30

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Aristophanes lived between...
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  • 395-345 BCE.
  • 450/455-385 BCE .
  • 455-400 BCE
  • 555 BCE-450 BCE.

Question 31

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The end of the Peloponnesian War was in...
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  • 404 BCE.
  • 400 BCE.
  • 393 BCE.

Question 32

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There was a permanent Roman theater built in...
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  • 45 BCE.
  • 50 BCE
  • 55 BCE

Question 33

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Middle comedy started when...
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  • They got tired of old comedy.
  • There was major social reform in Greece.
  • Rome began to add to the works.
  • The Peloponnesian War ended.

Question 34

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Menander lived between...
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  • 340-292 BCE.
  • 341-291 BCE.
  • 330-290 BCE.
  • 290-150 BCE.

Question 35

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Big Julie and Chickpea are...
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  • Brutus and Julius Caesar.
  • Pompeii and Julius Caesar.
  • Tiberius and Ovid.
  • Julius Caesar and Cicero.
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