ENGL 205 Week 1 Quiz

ENGL 205 Week 1 Quiz | regent-university

•             Question 1               

                Athena assists Achilles as he is trying to kill Hector in Book 22 of The Iliad.                                             

•             Question 2               

                The Whiteboard presentation on Ancient literature explains that Ancient literature was rarely written in the epic form that Homer employed.                                      

•             Question 3               

                Oedipus makes it clear, at the beginning of Oedipus the King, that he will hold himself accountable if he has any association with the murderer of Laios.                                

•             Question 4               

                Oedipus is happy to hear the truth that Tiresias gives him in Oedipus the King.                                  

•             Question 5               

                Kreon is vindictive at the end of Oedipus the King and tries to pay Oedipus back for being treated so badly.                                        

•             Question 6               

                The main reason Achilles is angry with Agamemnon in Book 1 of The Iliad is because he is desperately in love with Briseis, and he says he can't live without her.                                     

•             Question 7               

                Thetis refuses to do what Achilles asks her to do in Book 1 of The Iliad.                                  

•             Question 8               

                In I Samuel 17 David is troubled because his three oldest brothers had refused to follow Saul to the battle against the Philistines.                                 

•             Question 9               

                In Book 1 of The Iliad, Chryses prays to Apollo to send a plague into the Greek camp because Agamemnon refuses to return his daughter.                                 

•             Question 10               

                Because they are enemies, Achilles and Priam share no moment of understanding and sympathy in The Iliad.