欧洲文化题库

欧洲文化题库

2. Parthenon in Greece is the place where people worship __B______.

a. many gods

b. one god

c. many goddesses

d. many gods and goddesses

3．In the early days of Christianity, it was a religion of ____B___.

a. the rich

b. the poor

c. the ruling class

d. all people

4. Which of the following statements about Knighthood is NOT true? A

a. a nobleman was born a knight

b. knighthood had to be earned

c. one had to be trained in order to become a knight

d. after being dubbed a knight, he had to observe the Code of Chivalry.

5. The Inquisition was __A___.

a. a church court set up to try heretics

b. an organization for church investigation

c. a court in many kingdoms

d. the decision-making body of the church

6. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from ____B____ to the American people for the 100-year

anniversary of the independence of the U.S.A.

a. U.K.

b. France

c. Germany

d. Italy

7. Counter- Reformation means that the Roman Catholic Church ____C__.

a. suppressed the Reformation movement by force

b. refused to accept any reform

c. re-established itself as a dynamic force in European affairs by introducing reforms and

improvements

d. ganged up with the Spanish monarchy to set up the Inquisition

8. Kepler’s contribution to astronomy is ___C____.

a. his discovery of the law of inertia

b. his discovery of the Ptolemaic system

c. his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion

d. none of the above

9. The symbolic event of the French Revolution in 1789 was __C____.

a. the issuance of the Declaration of Independence

b. the founding of the First Republic

c. the seizure of the Bastille

d. the publication of The Spirit of the Laws

10. The twelve tables were laws written by ___A___.

a. the Romans

b. the Greeks

c. the Americans

d. the French

11. In 313 the Edict of Milan was issued by _____B____ and granted religious freedom to all and

made Christianity legal.

a. Theodosius

b. Constantine I

c. Caesar

d. Octavian

12. The __C_____ type is the most beautiful column in Greek architecture..

a. Ionic

b. Doric

c. Corinthian

d. all of the above

13. Which one is the figure in Homer’s Odyssey? D

a. Agamemnon

b. Hector

c. Achilles

d. Penelope

14. In the 13th century, many schools____A____.

a. were organized into universities

b. gave way to universities

c. were state-run

d. were government-funded

15. The representation form of Greek Democracy is ____C_______.

a. constitutional monarch

b. representative democracy

c. citizen-assembly.

d. separation of powers

16. The Academy is the first school in the world，it was established by ____B_____.

a. Aristotle

b. Plato.

c. Socrates

d. Democritus

17. The following works were written by Plato except ___C____.