73-Homer’s poetry was an oral culture that people ………….. in the street and in the market place
a-read
b- sang
c-none of them
74-Greek culture was a “………….” that sprang from people’s everyday life. All the Greeks – old and young participated in producing this culture
a- living culture
b-dead culture
c-none of them
75-Greek culture became books that had no connection to everyday life and to average people.
a-In Ancient Greece
b-In Ancient Rome
c-none of them
76- In Rome, Greek culture was not a living culture anymore. It was a “…………….” culture. Some aristocrats used it to show off
a- museum
b-dead
c-none of them
77-Horace, was ……..
a-a poet writing advice in the form of poems
b-a philosopher-critic like Plato
c-none of them
78-Horace’s hatred of the popular culture of his day is apparent in his “…………….”
a- Letter to Senca
b- Letter to Augustus
c-none of them
79-as Horace advised the poem should be conceived as a form of ……… similar to a painting
a- movable beauty
b- static beauty
c-none of them
80-Each one of these principles that Horace advised would become central in ………….
a- shaping European literary taste
b- shaping Greeks literary taste
c-none of them
81-Horace tells writers that a play should not be shorter or longer than ………… acts
a-four
b-five
c-six
82-Horace advises, that poetry should ………… and please
a-enjoy
b- teach
c-none of them
83-Whenever Horace talks about the laws of composition and style, his model of excellence that he wants Roman poets to ………………
a- imitate the western
b- imitate the Greeks
c-one of them
84-I hate the profane crowd and keep it at a distance,” he says in his Odes
a-Horace
b-Plato
c-Aristotle
v 85- Horace shows prejudice to the culture of everyday people, but he does not know that the culture of Greece that he sees in books now was itself a popular culture.
a-correct
b-wrong
86-Study Greek models night and day,” was Horce legendary advice in the ……..
a- Ars Poetica (270).
b-Ode
c-none of them
87-Horace wants Roman authors to imitate the Greeks night and day and follow in their footsteps, but he does not want them to be ……
a-inventors
b- mere imitators
c-none of them
v 88-In the “Epistle to Maecenas” Horace complains about the slavish ……… who ape the morals and manners of their betters:
a- imitators
b-writer
c-none of them
89-In the process of following and imitating the Greeks, Horace differentiates himself from those who “mimic” the ancients and slavishly attempt to reproduce them
a-wrong
b-correct
90-In imitating the Greeks, Horace claims ……..
a-revival
b- originality
c-none of them
91-In Ars Poetica, Horace also advises the aspiring poet to make his tall……
a-unbelievable
b- believable
c-none of them
92-Horace’s ideas about imitating the Greeks and about poetry imitating real life models were both …….
a- imprecise
b-precise
c-none of them
93-From 68 to 88 C.E, he was the leading teacher of rhetoric in Rome. He wrote the Institutio as a help in the training of orators
a-Horace
b-Plato
c-Quintilian
94-At the same time, Quintilian continues to advocate imitation, and goes on to elaborate a list of precepts to guide writers to produce “accurate” imitations.
a-correct
b-wrong
95- ( The imitator should consider carefully whom to imitate and He should not limit himself to one model only
- He should not violate the rules of genres and species of writing, and should be attentive to his models’ use of decorum, disposition and language ) this written by
a-Horace
b- Quintilian
c-Seneca
96-Latin authors never discuss poetry or literature as an imitation (mimesis); they only discuss them as …………..
a- an imitation of the Greeks
b- an imitation of the Arab
c-none of them
97- Latin authors are familiar with Plato’s and Aristotle’s analysis of poetry. The Poetics or Republic III and X do not seem to have been available to the Romans:
a-wrong
b-correct
98-Latin authors used poetry and literature for…………..:
a- To improve eloquence
b- To sing the national glories of Rome and show off its culture