GED117 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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GED117 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
The Euripidean gods cannot be appealed to in the name of justice. - CORRECT
ANSWER- TRUE
It was assumed that ___________ invented the form of tragedy. - CORRECT ANSWER-
AESCHYLUS
_________ added a second speaker or actor. - CORRECT ANSWER...
GED117 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
The Euripidean gods cannot be appealed to in the name of justice. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- TRUE
It was assumed that ___________ invented the form of tragedy. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
AESCHYLUS
_________ added a second speaker or actor. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- AESCHYLUS
Which is NOT true of the plays of Aeschylus? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A one cannot
learn through suffering
Which is NOT a part of the Oresteia? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Prometheus . Bound
Suffering, according to Aristotle's Poetics, need not be embittering but can be a source of
knowledge. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- TRUE
He added a third actor to the play and employed painted scenery. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Sophocles
Which play has for its protagonist who kills her own children in revenge for their father? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Medea
The plot of a tragedy was almost always inspired by episodes from ______________ -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Greek Mythology
The word "tragedy" comes from the Greek word _____________. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Tragos
, It is the nuclear Greek tragedy, setting the norm in a way that cannot be claimed for any other
work. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- TRAGEDY
The dramatic ritual was dedicated to this Greek god of wine, fertility, and theater. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- DIONYSUS
Aeschylus has been called the most theological of the Greek tragedians. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- TRUE
Which playwright did Aristotle call the most tragic because his depiction of the arena of
human life is the grimmest? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- EURIPIDES
The creation of a dialogue between the Chorus and the actor is credited to ____________ -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- POET THESPIS
This is the last play of Sophocles. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Oedipus at Colonus
Which is NOT true of Sophocles? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- only three of his plays
survived
To which book in the Bible is
Prometheus
compared? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Genesis
The capacity to learn through suffering is a distinguishing characteristic of the tragic hero. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- TRUE
Aeschylus' Choephoroi has been compared to the Bible's Book of Job both in its structure and
its preoccupation with the problem of suffering. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- TRUE
In the communal celebrations, what may have been the first formal element? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- choric dance
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