World Literature II
Name ________________________
Quiz # 2
Feb. 19, 2009
Matching of Greek Terms Important for Neo-Augustans
1.
_____ the tragic flaw
(A)
Mimesis
2.
_____ the moment of recognition
which often leads to a
major change in the action.
(B)
Hamartia
3.
_____ the purifying action experienced
by an audience viewing a tragedy.
(C)
Catharsis
4.
_____ The reversal of intention or situation
in a drama
(D)
Anagnorisis,
5.
_____ Strongly connected with the idea of
Verisimilitude when representing nature.
(E)
Peripeteia
Multiple Choice:
6.
_____ Molière's king, Louis XIV (14th) was also called what? (A) The Moonface King,
(B) Polaris, the guiding star, (C) The Sun king, (D) The King of the Firmament.
7.
_____ In Tartuffe, which member of Orgon’s family is able to finally reveal Tartuffe s
true nature to Orgon? (A) Elmire—Orgon’s wife, (B) Dorine, Orgon's outspoken
servant Woman (C) Madame Pernelle, Orgon’s mother (D) Valère, Orgon’s
daughter.
8.
_____ Orgon accepts the plan to reveal Tartuffe s hypocrisy because. . .
(A) he wants to prove to those around him of Tartuffe s innocence,
(B) he is certain that Tartuffe is evil but needs proof. (C) he believes Elmire has
been flirting with the idea of being unfaithful. (D) Cléante convinces him that
there is a possibility of evil and that this approach is necessary.
9.
_____ Which emotion did Racine use in his plays which many in his time thought was in
appropriate? (A) avarice, (B) love, (C) despair, (D) religious exotica
10.
_____ Aristotle, in his theory of the unities, claimed that a work should (A) take no
longer than the action should take, (B) should occur in only one place which the
audience views, (C) should have only one major action, (D) All of the above.
11.
_____ When does Phèdre reveal her feelings for her stepson, Hippolytos? (A) when she
thinks Theseus is dead, (B) as soon as they become clear to her, (C) when
Hippolytos tries to seduce her, (D) she never reveals them.
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Name _____________________
World Lit II: Quiz Two
March 2, 2016
True (A) or False (B):
12.
_____ Because of the pressure of living under the absolute monarchy of King Luie 14th,
the arts at this time was very weakly expressed.
13.
_____ Tartuffe was, for a time, banned from performance because of pressure from the
Catholic Church.
14.
_____ Tartuffe is very cautious and slow about accepting Elmire’s offer to be his lover
since as he says his control over Orgon is fragile and if Orgon should get a whiff
of duplicity the whole charade would blow up like an “overloaded blunderbuss.”
15.
_____ In the play Tartuffe the Orgon's first reaction—after having his eyes opened by
the evil behavior of Tartuffe—is to pursue as the extreme attitude of never
trusting any religious men henceforth.
16.
_____ Racine, a very religious man, never had to worry about political intrigue in his
career as a playwright.
17.
_____ In contrast to Pierre Corneille, the "founder of French tragedy," who claimed that
the subject of a fine tragedy ought not to be probable, Racine affirmed that
nothing but what is probable should ever be used in tragedy.
18.
_____ Racine wrote as many comedies as he wrote tragedies.
19.
_____ Racine made up the story line of Phèdre using only his basic knowledge of who
the Greek gods were and how they might have behaved under certain situations.
20.
_____ According to Pierre Corneille's rules of “Tragedy” deals with affairs of the state
(wars, dynastic marriages); comedy deals with love.
21.
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22.
_____ According to myth, Phèdre was actually a descendent of the sun god Hyperion.
23.
_____ Racine portrays Phèdre as having no regrets for the passion for her stepson which
burns in her heart.
24.
_____ Phèdre’s mother Pasiphaë had an unnatural relation with a bull so that the
Minotaur was her half brother.
25.
_____ Hippolytos, the stepson of Phèdre, feels no love for anyone within the play's
action.
Racine was able to support his rebellion against Corneille because he was in fact
following the ideas of Aristotle closer than Corneille.
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