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1-Literature and literary criticism in Western cultures cannot be understood without understanding its relationship to
a-Greek
b- roman
c-classical antiquity – Greek and Roman
.
2-European and Western literature and cultures were produced as a ……….. of the classical cultures of Greece and Rome
a-revival
b- recreation, a revival
c- recreation

3-Western cultures considered Greece and Rome the most perfect civilizations from the…….
a-15th to the 20th
b-16th to the 20th
c-17th to the 20th

• 4-Western drama, poetry, literary criticism, art, education, politics, fashion, architecture, painting, sculpture were ALL produced in ……….. of classical antiquity (Greece and Rome).
a-changing
b- imitation
c-none of them


5-West’s relationship with antiquity is not simple. It is full of ….....
a- ambivalence
b- contradictions
c- contradictions and ambivalence.


5-“Captive Greece took its wild conqueror captive” was written by Roman poet ……..
a-Seneca
b- Horace
c-none of them

6-in this verse “Captive Greece took its wild conqueror captive” Horace described the relationship between ………
a-Roman and Greece
b-Greece and western
c-none of them

7-The Romans conquered Greece militarily, but they always felt that the culture of Greece remained infinitely more sophisticated
a-correct
b-wrong

8-No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.” Witten by
a-Horace
b- Seneca
c-none of them

9-“[A] man who follows another not only finds nothing; he is not even looking.” Witten by
a-Horace
b- Seneca
c-none of them

10- Why Horace advised his readers to simply imitate the Greeks and never try to invent anything themselves
a-Because they do not have the ability to invention
b-because their inventions will be weak and unattractive
c- none of them

11-The Romans so desperately wanted to imitate the Greeks and so constantly failed to match them Why?
a-Imitation cannot produce originality
b- Imitation is something experienced before
c-none of them

12-The Romans were a simple rural and uncultivated people who became successful warriors, and at the height of their success when they ruled the biggest empire in the world, they still felt that they were inferior culturally to their small province Greece
a-correct
b-wrong