09春欧洲文化考试试卷

Part I Multiple Choices (35 points)

Directions:Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked ( A ), ( B ), ( C ) and ( D ) are given. Choose the one which best completes the statement or answers the question by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.

1.The __________civilization on Crete was a wealthy trading culture that existed from about 2600

BC to about 1400 BC in ancient Greece.

A. Mycenaean

B. Minoan

C. Hellenistic

D. Neolithic

2.The Trojan War was caused when the Trojan prince Paris took _______, the wife of the king of

Sparta, back to Troy with him.

A. Helen

B. Eris

C. Andromache

D. Penelope

3._________ is the period during which Greek culture spread throughout Asia Minor and the Middle East in the empire of Alexander the Great.

A. Hellenism

B. the Classical age

C. the Archaic age

D. the Iron Age

4.Herodotus’ books about the wars between _______ and the Greeks (490-479B.C.) were the first

systematic histories to be written in the West.

A. Persians

B. Trojans

C. Romans

D. Turks

5.The Greek goddess of love and beauty is ___________, while in Roman Myths her name was

changed to Venus.

A. Hera

B. Hestia

C. Aphrodite

D. Athena

6.The Athenian thinker___________ called himself “a midwife to knowledge”who just brought

knowledge out of others by asking questions.

A. Plato

B. Aristotle

C. Epicurus

D. Socrates

7. “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth…” is probably from ___________.

A. the Old Testament

B. the New Testament

C. Republic

D. Antigone

8.Next to Jesus, it’s generally believed that _________ is the most important person in Christianity.

A. Paul

B. Peter

C. David

D. John

9.Persecution of the Christians ended in 313 A.D. when _________ issued the Edict of Milan

giving Christians and others the freedom “to follow the religion which each may desire”.

A. Nero

B. Constantine

C. Theodosius

D. Augustus

10. The ruling class of ancient Rome kept the Roman populace平民happy by distributing free food

and staging huge spectacles公开表演___________ and ____________ are the two major means of entertainment for ancient Romans.

A. Gladiators；the Olympic Games

B. Theater; the Olympic Games

C. Gladiators; Chariot races

D. none of the above

11. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud…it is nor easily

angered, it keeps no record of wrongs…” is probably from ____________.

A. the New Testament

B. the Old Testament

C. Odyssey

D. Utopia

12. Plato describes his ideal state in the Republic, which is ruled by a group of carefully trained men

and women, who are all___________.

A. soldiers

B. artists

C. philosophers

D. poets

13. A dam and Eve’s first two sons were ________ and ________. They represent two forms of

life—the nomad existence, moving from place to place and the sedentary existence—looking after the fields.

A. Jacob; Abel

B. Cain; Abel

C. Job; Is sac

D. David; Saul

14. Many of the modern-day Arabs recognize that they are the descendants of Ishmael, while the