欧洲文化入门2

《欧洲文化入门》复习题（二）

I. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfmished 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. Who were considered as people by the ancient Athens?

A. Women citizens

B. Adults

C. Adult male citizens

D. Foreigners and children

2. Which of the following is true about Dialogues?

A. Dialogues was a book written by Socrates.

B. Dialogues was a record of life of Plato.

C. Dialogues was a record of Socrates written by Plato.

D. Dialogues was a record of Socrates's sayings by his followers.

3. The great deed that David performed was ____.

A. he took the Hebrews back to Canaan

B. he killed Goliath, the philistine giant

C. he went to the top of the mountain in Sinai to receive message from (~d

D. none of the above

4. In the early clays of Christianity, it was a religion of _____.

A. the rich

B. the poor

C. the ruling class

D. all people

5. Which of the following statements about knighthood is not true?

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.

6. The Inquisition was ______

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

7. Art to Michelangelo was a means by which._____.

A. he expressed his opposition to the despotic rule

B. he made inquiry into the reality

C. he expressed his vision of man

D. B and C

8. Counter- Reformation means that the Roman Catholic Church _____.

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

9. Kepler's contribution to astronomy is

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

10. In Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke stated that .__

A. all our knowledge sprang from experience

B. knowledge was power

C. every man was enemy to every man

D. the world was made up of simple, active substances

11. The symbolic event of the French Revolution in 1789 was _____.

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

12. V oltaire was noted for his_____.

A. wit

B. satire

C. passion

D. A and B

13. In Critique of Pure Reason, Kant argued that________.

A. knowledge is the joint product of both sense and reason

B. creation is never complete; it is ever going on

C. virtue can be sustained without religious belief

D. man's greatest ills are not natural but are made by man himself

14. The Lyrical Ballads was written by _________.

A. Shelley

B. Wordsworth and Coleridge

C. Blake and Keats

D. Byran and Shelley

15. The line "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" comes from_________.

A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Keats

D. Blake

I6. The contribution of ancient Greeks to world civilization is _________ A. Athenian democracy B. The Olympic Games

C. The epics of Homer

D. All of the above

17. Which of the following is true about Herodotus?

A. He is called " Father of History".

B. He wrote about the wars between "Athens 'and Sparta.

C. He contributed greatly to lragic3art.

D. He used clever parody in his writing.

18. Genesis of the Old Testament tells about __________

A. the fall of man

B. the creation of the world

C. Noah g Ark

D. all of the above.

19. The leader of the slave uprising in 73 B. C. was _________

A. Nero

B. Moses

C. Spartacus

D. Abraham

20. The great contribution of St. Jerome was __________

A. the building of monasteries