25-the two influential Greek thinkers who influenced the development of Western literature and criticism more than any other thinker in history:.
a-Phidias and Sophocles
b- Plato and Aristotle
c-none of them
26-the Greek did not have a word of literature they have instead of literature a word ……
a-Poetry
b-theme
c-none of them
27-He was obsessed with poetry throughout his life
a-Sophocles
b- Plato
c-Aristotle
28-Plato’s most important contributions to criticism appear in his famous dialogue the ……
a- Republic
b-Country
c-none of them
v 29-Plato makes the very important distinction between Mimesis and Diagesis, two concepts that remain very important to analyse literature even today. They are often translated as imitation and narration or showing and telling:
a-correct
b-wrong
30- If I tell you the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in the third person: He sailed to Alexandria with 30 000 soldiers and then he marched on Cairo, etc.” That would be ………….I am telling you the story
a-an imitation (mimesis)
b- a narration (diagesis).
c-none of them
31-if I tell you the story in the first person, as if I am Napoleon: “I sailed to Alexandria with 30 000 soldiers, and then I marched on Cairo, etc.” That would be ………………………………I am showing you the story
a-an imitation (mimesis)
b- a narration (diagesis).
c-none of them
32-Plato was the first to explain that narration or story telling (in Arabic al-sard) can proceed by narration or by imitation:“And narration may be either simple narration, or imitation, or a union of the two”
a- wrong
b-correct
33- Plato’s famous decision in Book X of the Republic to ………… poets and poetry from the city
a-confirm
b- ban
c-none of them
34………….. drew attention to the fact that the Greeks did not have anything similar to the Western ideas of art and literature. The Western ideas of art and literature did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome:
a-Paul Kristller
b-Christopher Janaway
c-none of them
35-The Greek term for Art and its Latin equivalent (ars) do not specifically denote the “fine arts” in the modern sense, but were applied to all kinds of human activities which we would call …………….”
a- crafts.
b- crafts or sciences.
c- sciences
36-the fine art made up of ................ in the mid of eighteenth century
a-painting and architecture
b-sculpture and music and poetry
c-all of them
37-The discipline that we call today Literature is an ……. century European invention
a-19th
b-18th
c-17th
38-In the ancient world, they had poetry, tragedy and comedy, but they were all known as “………..”
a-literature
b- poetry
c-none of them
39-They poet could be a tragedian like Sophocles or Euripides, a comedian like Aristophanes, or an epic poet like Homer, but the Greeks never called any of these poets “artists” and they never called their poems and plays, “………….”
a- literature
b-Art
c-none of them
v 40-why in an oral society the poetry becomes the most principal source of knowledge and education.
a-the poetry shows the knowledge
v b- in an oral society does not have a system of writing, poetry becomes useful to record and preserve knowledge.
c-none of them
v 41-as Eric Havelock shows, is a poet, a performer and an educator. The poetry that Plato talks about was main source of knowledge in the society.
a-wrong
b-correct
42-in European and Western Literature is an interaction between a reader and a book
a-wrong
b-correct
43-Oral poetry is a communal performance.
a- correct
b-wrong
44-in European and Western Literature is an entertainment and pleasure
a-wrong
b-correct
45-Oral poetry teaches science, medicine, war and peace and social values
a-correct
b-wrong
46-The poet in an oral society is a leader, and educator, a warrior, a priest
a-correct
b-wrong
47- Plato accuses the poetic experience of his time of conditioning the citizens to …………., uncritically, the values of a tradition without grasping it.
a-repeat
b- imitate and repeat
c- imitate
48-The poet produces only a poor copy of the things he sings about, and those who listen to him and believe him acquire a ….
a-good education
b- poor education.
c-none of them
49-It would be fine, he says, if people just laughed at these tales and stories, but the problem is that they take them seriously as a source of ……..
a-happiness
b- education and law
c-none of them
50-Plato observes that the charm of poetry and its power reside in its …
a- rhythm
b- harmony
c- rhythm, harmony, and measures
51-Plato calls rhythm, harmony, and measures colours of ……
a-poetry
b-music
52-Oral societies, that do not have a system of ………., use poetry like modern societies use schools, libraries, newspapers and television
a-reading
b- writing
c-none of them
53-Plato analyses two aspects of poetry to prove his point:………..
a-rhythm and harmony
b- style and content.
c-none of them
54-The poet’s craft, Plato says, demands only a ……… knowledge of things
a- superficial
b-perfect