09春欧洲⽂化考试试卷
Part I Multiple Choices (35 points)
Directions:Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked ( A ), ( B ), ( C ) and ( D ) are given. Choose the one which best completes the statement or answers the question by blackening the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.
1.The __________civilization on Crete was a wealthy trading culture that existed from about 2600
BC to about 1400 BC in ancient Greece.
A. Mycenaean
B. Minoan
C. Hellenistic
D. Neolithic
2.The Trojan War was caused when the Trojan prince Paris took _______, the wife of the king of
Sparta, back to Troy with him.
A. Helen
B. Eris
C. Andromache
D. Penelope
3._________ is the period during which Greek culture spread throughout Asia Minor and the Middle East in the empire of Alexander the Great.
A. Hellenism
B. the Classical age
C. the Archaic age
D. the Iron Age
4.Herodotus’ books about the wars between _______ and the Greeks (490-479B.C.) were the first
systematic histories to be written in the West.
A. Persians
B. Trojans
C. Romans
D. Turks
5.The Greek goddess of love and beauty is ___________, while in Roman Myths her name was
changed to Venus.
A. Hera
B. Hestia
C. Aphrodite
D. Athena
6.The Athenian thinker___________ called himself “a midwife to knowledge”who just brought
knowledge out of others by asking questions.
A. Plato
B. Aristotle
C. Epicurus
D. Socrates
7. “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth…” is probably from ___________.
A. the Old Testament
B. the New Testament
C. Republic
D. Antigone
8.Next to Jesus, it’s generally believed that _________ is the most important person in Christianity.
A. Paul
B. Peter
C. David
D. John
9.Persecution of the Christians ended in 313 A.D. when _________ issued the Edict of Milan
archaicgiving Christians and others the freedom “to follow the religion which each may desire”.
A. Nero
B. Constantine
C. Theodosius
D. Augustus
10. The ruling class of ancient Rome kept the Roman populace平民happy by distributing free food
and staging huge spectacles公开表演___________ and ____________ are the two major means of entertainment for ancient Romans.
A. Gladiators；the Olympic Games
B. Theater; the Olympic Games
C. Gladiators; Chariot races
D. none of the above
11. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud…it is nor easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrongs…” is probably from ____________.
A. the New Testament
B. the Old Testament
C. Odyssey
D. Utopia
12. Plato describes his ideal state in the Republic, which is ruled by a group of carefully trained men
and women, who are all___________.
C. philosophers
D. poets
13. A dam and Eve’s first two sons were ________ and ________. They represent two forms of
life—the nomad existence, moving from place to place and the sedentary existence—looking after the fields.
A. Jacob; Abel
B. Cain; Abel
C. Job; Is sac
D. David; Saul
14. Many of the modern-day Arabs recognize that they are the descendants of Ishmael, while the
Jews are descendants of Isaac — but all are descended from __________.
A. Judas
B. Jacob
C. Moses
D. Abraham
15. In the early clays of Christianity, it was a religion of _______.
A. the rich
B. the poor
C. the ruling class
D. all people
16. Both Judaism and Christianity are _________, refusing to worship any other god than their own.
A. monotheism
B. Deism
C. Polytheism
D. Atheism
17.______ emphasized equality in human dignity and humanity, the acceptance of one’s fate, and the
idea of divine wisdom in the world, which had a wide appeal to Romans as well as to Christians.
A. Stoicism
B. Epicureanism
C. Scepticism
D. materialism
18. ______, woman poet of Lesbos, is noted for her love poems of passionate intensity, some of which are addressed to women. She was considered the most famous female poet of the ancient world.
A. Cleopatra
B. Dido
19. The story of ______ in the Bible attempts to explain why people across the world speak different
languages.
A. the Tower of Babel
B. Noah’s ark
C. Joseph
D. Samson
20. Roman law consists of three categories: the “citizen law”, the “law of nations” and “_______”.
A. civil law
B. moral law
C. natural law
D. criminal law
21. In the Middle Ages, the church gained its income mainly from __________, which were payments of one tenth of everyone’s income.
A. tithes
B. tax
C. payment
D. money
22. ______ was the supreme head of the Catholic Church.
A. Archbishop
B. Pope
C. College of cardinals
D. Bishop
23. The epic poem __________ is about a mighty warrior who goes to help his friend, whose people are oppressed by the terrible monsters and finally he killed the fire-spiting dragon as he dies.
A. The Dream of Rood
B. The Consolations of Philosophy
C. Beowulf
D. The Book of Kells
24. In 1054, the Christian Church was divided into ____ and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
A. Christianity
B. the Roman Church
C. the Roman Catholic Church
D. the Western Catholic
25. Which of the following is not included in the Code of Chivalry?
A. Loyalty to the weak.
B. Fighting for the church.
C. Telling the truth and be generous.
D. Only fight equals in rank.
26. The goal of the Crusades was_________.
A. to re-control Jerusalem
B. to open path to Byzantine
C. to regain the Holy land -Palestine
D. to open trade route to the east
27. _________’s work shows modern intellectual curiosity, in contrast to much medieval writing, and was known as Father of Humanism.
A. Mirandola
B. Fracesco Petrarch
C. Ludovico Ariosto
D. Torquato Tasso
28. “Knowledge is power” is one of the quotations from _________.
A. John Locke
B. Francis Bacon
C. Isaac Newton
D. Gotffried Wilhelm yon Leibniz
29. The most important point in Descartes’ philosophy is _________.
A. I think therefore I am
B. I use my senses therefore I am
C. I doubt therefore I am
D. None of the above
30. ________’s best known work is The Canterbury Tales.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Boccacio
C. Chretien de Troyues
D. Andreas Capellanus
31. Boccaccio’s best known work, _______ is a collection of one hundred stories told by three men and seven women to pass the time when they leave Florence to escape the plague of 1348.
A. On Famous men
B. The Solitary Life
C. On Religious Idleness
D. The Decameron

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