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World Lit Exam 1
EXAM 1 Review for World Literature
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What do the people complain about concerning Gilgamesh’s behavior? | He takes people's women, he is a conflict starter, and he also takes people's sons to war. He is a warmonger and a womanizer. |
| Who is created in order to deal with Gilgamesh? | Enkidu. |
| What trouble does [Answer to #2] cause? | Enkidu breaks hunter's traps; when he breaks their traps, they cannot catch anything to eat. |
| What plan is devised in order to deal with [Answer to #2]’s trouble? | Enkidu is seduced by the prostitute, Shamhat; she is sent to him and they sleep together; she "civilizes" him by initiating him into human ways. |
| Once [Answer to #2] sleeps with Shamhat, he is rejected by what? | The animals who were once loyal to Enkidu, the wild man, reject him for doing a human act. |
| Name one of the symbolic objects that represent [Answer to #2] in Gilgamesh’s dreams. | A comet and an axe represent Enkidu in Gilgamesh's dreams. |
| What monster do the two heroes in Gilgamesh first decide to subdue? | Humbaba, a forest dwelling monster. |
| Genesis provides two narratives in its first two chapters. What is the purpose of each? | The first chapter is about the Glory of God as creator, and the second chapter is about Adam and Eve. One highlights God's grandeur and the other highlights man's interactions with God. |
| What did God do on the seventh day in Genesis 2? | He rested after creating all things. |
| What reasons does God provide for creating woman? | To provide a companion, support, and help for man (Adam.) "It is not good for man to be alone." |
| What does the Lord God tell Adam and Eve will occur if they eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? | They will surely die. |
| Genesis says the serpent was the most [adjective] of all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had made. | Cunning/crafty. |
| What is one of the woman’s punishments after the fruit is eaten? | Pain in labor/childbirth. Both her and Adam are also banished from the Garden of Eden. |
| What is one of the man’s punishments after the fruit is eaten? | Man will toil to eat (he will toil with the fields, the ground will not be rich/produce as richly.) It will no longer be easy to get food. |
| Who is Naomi’s husband who passes early in the story? | Elimelech. |
| What does Naomi tell Ruth and Orpah once her sons pass? | She tells them to leave and go home and return to their people; she says there is nothing left for them, they should remarry. |
| T or F: Orpah stays with Naomi. | FALSE. Ruth stays with Naomi. |
| How does Ruth meet Boaz? | She meets Boaz while gleaning the wheat field. |
| The opening line of The Odyssey, says, “Tell me about a [adjective] man.” What is the adjective? | Complicated. |
| Odysseus is heading home after what experience? | The Trojan War. |
| Which goddess advocates for Odysseus? | Athena. |
| Athena disguises herself as whom when she speaks with Telemachus? | She disguises herself as Mentor, an old family friend. |
| What is happening at Odysseus’s home as he is attempting to get back? | Suitors have taken over his estate, vying for his wife Penelope's hand and his property. |
| T or F: Calypso refuses to marry Odysseus. | FALSE (she wants to marry him, keeping him captive.) |
| Name one way Odysseus escapes the Cyclops. | • He drives a stake into the Cyclops eye • He and his men ride beneath the sheep as the Cyclops lets them out into the field (the Cyclops is blind and does not notice) • He says his name is "Noman" or "nobody" which tricks the other Cyclops. |
| Which goddess has a grudge against the Trojans? | Juno. (because of what they did to the Greeks in the Trojan war.) |
| What does this goddess do in the first book of The Aeneid in an attempt to thwart him? | She (Juno) gets King Aeolus to unchain the winds and shipwrecks them (Aeneas and his crew.) She causes a storm. |
| Aeneas is destined to found which great city? | Rome. |
| Dido attempts to get Aeneas to found which city instead? | Carthage (the city she founded after fleeing from her evil brother.) |
| Which of Aeneas’s friends is mentioned in a story that causes him to weep? | Hector. (Hector dies tragically.) |
| Whom do the gods ask Aeneas to consider in leaving Dido to pursue his destiny? | Ascanius, his son. He needs to carry on the legacy of his father. |
| How does Dido respond to Aeneas’s decision to leave? | She ends her life, impaling herself on Aeneas's sword on a funeral pyre. |
| “He who saw the wellspring, the foundations of the land, / Who knew the ways, was wise in all things, / He it was who inspected holy places everywhere, /... is from? | Gilgamesh |
| “The hunter made ready to speak, saying to his father: / My father, there is a certain fellow who has come / from the uplands, / He is the mightiest in the land, strength is his, /... is from? | Gilgamesh |
| “Let this befall according to the command of the great / counselor Enlil, / I want a friend for my own counselor, / For my own counselor do I want a friend! /... is from? | Gilgamesh |
| “My cheeks would not be emaciated, nor my face cast down, / Nor my heart wretched, nor my features wastes, / Nor would there be woe in my vitals, / Nor would my face be like a traveler’s from afar, /... is from? | Gilgamesh |
| “When God began to create heaven and earth, and the earth was welter and waste and darkness over the deep and God’s breath hovering over the waters, God said, “Let there be light.” is from? | Genesis |
| “And God created the human in his image, / in the image of God He created him, / male and female He created them.” is from? | Genesis |
| “Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the beasts of the field that the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Though God said, you shall not eat from any tree of the garden-- is from? | Genesis |
| “And the Lord saw that the evil of the human creature was great on the earth and that every scheme of his heart’s devising was only perpetually evil. And the Lord regretted having made the human on earth and was grieved to the heart.” is from? | Genesis |
| “Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to reside in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons." is from? | Ruth |
| "But Naomi replied, ‘Turn back, my daughters: why should you go with me? Have I any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Turn back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband." is from? | Ruth |
| "And she said to them, ‘Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara: for God (Shaddai) has made my lot very bitter. I went away full and the Lord has brought me home again empty." is from? | Ruth |
| “And Naomi said to her daughter in law, ‘Blessed be he of the Lord, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead!’ is from? | Ruth |
| “All the other Greeks / who had survived the brutal sack of Troy / sailed safely home to their own wives—except / this man alone. Calypso, a great goddess, / had trapped him in her cave;" is from? | The Odyssey |
| '"You suitors, you are taking this too far. / Let us enjoy the feast in peace. It is / a lovely thing to listen to a bard, / especially one with such a godlike voice. / At dawn, let us assemble in the square." is from? | The Odyssey |
| “‘Laodamas, why mock me with this challenge? / My heart is set on sorrow, not on games, / since I have suffered and endured so much / that now I only want to get back home. /...is from? | The Odyssey |
| “‘One ram was best of all the flock; I grabbed / his back and curled myself up underneath / his furry belly, clinging to his fleece; / by force of will I kept on hanging there. /... is from? | The Odyssey |
| “War and a man I sing—an exile driven on by Fate, / he was the first to flee the coast of Troy, / destined to reach Lavinian shores and Italian soil, / yet many blows he took on land and sea from the gods above— /...is from? | The Aeneid |
| "Cupid leaps at once / to his loving mother’s orders. Shedding his wings / he masquerades as Iulus, prancing with his stride. / But now Venus distils a deep, soothing sleep / into Iulus’ limbs... is from? | The Aeneid |
| “Is that how well you know Ulysses? Trust me, / either the Greeks are hiding, shut inside those beams, / or the horse is a battle-engine geared to breach our walls...is from? | The Aeneid |
| “Three times he tried to fling his arms around his neck, / three times he embraced—nothing . . .the phantom / sifting through his fingers, / light as wind, quick as a dream in flight.” Is from? | The Aeneid |
| "The sun comes up from its nook in the east, / Seems to rise from beneath the earth, / Passes on through Heaven, / sets once again in the western sea/... is from? | "The Sun Rises and Sets" by Li Po |
| "We fought last year at the Sanggan’s source, / this year we fight on the Cong River road. / We washed weapons in the surf of Tiaozhi/... is from? | "South of the Walls we Fought" by Li Po |
| "They ask me why I live in the green mountains. / I smile and don’t reply; my heart’s at ease. / Peach blossoms flow downstream, leaving no trace— /... is from? | "Question and Answer in the Mountains" by Li Po |
| "The moon does not know how to drink; / My shadow mimes my capering; / But I’ll make merry with them both— / And soon enough it will be spring"...is from? | "Drinking Alone with the Moon" by Li Po. |
| "From her room in Fuzhou tonight, / all alone she watches the moon. / Far away, I grieve that her children / can’t understand why she think’s of Chang’an. /...is from? | "Moonlight Night" by Du Fu. |
| "The nation shattered, mountains and rivers remain; / city in spring, grass and trees burgeoning. / Feeling the times, blossoms draw tears; /...is from? | "Spring Prospect" by Du Fu. |
| "A single bird of prey beyond the sky, / a pair of white gulls between riverbanks. / Hovering wind-tossed, ready to strike; / the pair, at their ease, roaming to and fro. /...is from? | "I Stand Alone" by Du Fu. |
| "Light breeze on the fine grass. / I stand alone at the mast. / Stars lean on the vast wild plain. / Moon bobs in the Great River’s spate. / Letters have brought no fame. /...is from? | "Thoughts While Traveling at Night" by Du Fu. |
| Towards the end of his story, Gilgamesh want what in order to deal with his grief? | Eternal life. |
| In Gilgamesh, what steals the plant from the hero? | A serpent. |
| How many languages were spoken before Babel was built? | One. |
| What did the dove bring back to Noah? | An olive leaf. |
| What does Naomi want to find for Ruth? | A home. |
| What did Ruth do before lying down at Boaz’s feet? | Uncovered his feet. |
| Once Odysseus has slain the suitors, he decides the family will need to do what? | Exile to the farm. |
| Odysseus flies into hysterics when Penelope tells him what? | She moved the bed. |
| What is engraved on Aeneas's shield? | Rome's history. |
| Aeneas goes to the underworld for the purpose of seeing whom? | Anchises (his father.) |
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