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1、欧洲文化入门复习题欧洲文化入门复习题 欧洲文化入门复习题 I. Complete each of following sentences with the most likely answer. 1. In _ the Roman conquered Greece. A. 1200 B. C. B. 700 B. C. C. 146 B. C. D. The 5th century 2. Which of the following works described the war led by Agamemnon against the city of Troy? A. Oedipus the

2、 King B. Iliad C. Odyssey D. Antigone 3. Which of the following is NOT the plays written by Aeschylus? A. Antigone B. Agamemnon C. Persians D. Prometheus Bound 4. Which of the following is NOT the plays written by Sophocles? A. Electra B. Antigone C. Trojan Woman D. Oedipus the King 5. Who was the f

3、ounder of scientific mathematics? A. Heracleitus B. Aristotle C. Socrates D. Pythagoras 6. Who is chiefly noted for his doctrine that “man is the measure of all things”? A. Protagoras B. Pythagoras C. Pyrrhon D. Epicurus 11. Who wrote, “I came, I saw, I conquered”? A. Horace B. Julius Caesar C. Virg

4、il D. Marcus Tullius Cicero 12. The author of the philosophical poem On the Nature of things is _. A. Virgil B. Julius Caesar C. Horace D. Lucretius 13. Which of the following is not Roman architecture? A. The Colosseum B. The Panthenon C. The Parthenon D. Pont du Gard 14. Who wrote, “Captive Greece

5、 took her rude conqueror captive”? A. Sappho B. Plato C. Virgil D. Horace 15. Which of the following is by far the most influential in the West?_ A. Buddism B. Islamism C. Christianity D. Judaism 16. The Old Testament consists of 39 books, the oldest and most important of which are the first five bo

6、oks, called _. A. Exodus B. Commandments C. Amos D. Pentaeuch 19. After the _ century Nestorianism reached China. A. sixth B. fifth C. second D. third 20. Which of the following emperors made Christianity the official religion of the empire and outlawed all other religions? _ A. Theodosius B. August

7、us C. Constantine I D. Nero Caesar 21. Which of the following emperors issued the Edict of Milan and made Christianity legal in 313? _ A. Augustus B. Thedosius C. Nero D. Constantine I 22. At the age of 30, Jesus Christ received the baptism at the hands of _. A. St. Peter B. St. Paul C. John Baptist

8、 D. John Wycliff 23. By 1693, the whole of the Bible had been translated in _languages. A. 228 B. 974 C. 1202 D. 154 24. When printing was invented in the 1500s, the _ Bible was the first complete work printed. A. English B. Latin C. Aramaic D. Hebrew 25. When did the standard American edition of th

9、e Revised Version appear? _ A. 1885 B. 1611 C. 1901 D. 1979 27. The Middle Ages is also called the _. A. “Age of Christianity” B. “Age of Literature” C. “Age of Holy Spirit” D. “Age of Faith” 28. According to the code of chivalry, which of the following is not pledged to do for a knight? _ A. To be

10、loyal to his lord B. To fight for the church C. To obey without question the orders of the abbot D. To respect women of noble birth 29. When was a noble crowned as a knight in the Middle Ages in Western Europe? _ A. At the age of 14. B. When he was taught to say his prayers, learned good manners and

11、 ran errands for the ladies. C. At a special ceremony known as dubbing. D. When he was pledged to fight for the church. 30. Under feudalism, what were the three classes of people of western Europe?_ A. clergy, knights and serfs B. Pope, bishop and peasants C. clergy, lords and peasants D. knights, n

12、obles and serfs 31. By which year the Moslems had taken over the last Christian stronghold and won the crusades and ruled all the territory in Palestine that the crusaders had fought to control? _ A. 1270 B. 1254 C. 1096 D. 1291 37. Which of the following was crowned “Emperor of the Romans” by the P

13、ope in 800? _ A. St. Thomas Aquinas B. Charlemagne C. Constantine D. King James 38. Who is the author of the Opus Maius? _ A. Roger Bacon B. Dante Alighieri C. Chaucer D. St. Thomas Aquinas 41. Which of the following works is written by Boccaccio? _ A. Decameron B. Canzoniers C. David D. Moses 42. W

14、ho is the author of the painting, Betrayal of Judas? _ A. Giotto B. Brunelleschi C. Donatello D. Giorgione 43. Which of the following High Renaissance artists is the father of the modern mode of painting? _ A. Raphael B. Titian C. da Vinci D. Michelangelo 44. Which of the following High Renaissance

15、artists was best known for his Madona (Virgin Mary)? A. Titian B. da Vinci C. Michelangelo D. Raphael 45. Which of the following paintings was based on the story in the Bible with Maria riding on a donkey ready to face the hardship ahead? _ A. Tempesta B. Sacred and Profane Love C. Flight into Egypt

16、 D. The Return of the Hunters 52. Which of the following works was written by Rabelais, in which he praises the greatness of man, expresses his love of love and his reverence and sympathy for humanist learning? _ A.Gargantua and Pantagruel B. Don Quixote C. The Praise of Folly D. Utopia 53. Which of

17、 the following works is worth reading for Montaignes humanist ideas and a style which is easy and familiar? _ A. Sonnets B. Decameron C. Rabelais D. Of Repentance 54. Which of the following is NOT French writer poet? _ A. Cervantes B. Pierre de Ronsard C. Rabelais D. Montaigne 55. In 1516 who publis

18、hed the first Greek edition of the New Testament?_ A. Bruegel B. Erasmus C. El Greco D. Rabelais 58. The author of The Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs is _? A. Kepler B. Copernicus C. Galileo D. Newton 59. Galileo is the greatest name in the physics of the 17th century. His telescope magnified objec

19、ts _. A. a thousand times B. a hundred times C. ten-thousand times D. five-hundred times 60. Engels said: “The revolutionary act by which natural science declared its independence was the publication of the immortal work”, what does the immortal work refer to ?_ A. Sidereus Nuncius B. New Eassays Co

20、ncerning Human Understanding C. New system of Nature D. The Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs 65. _ and Newton invented independently the differential and integral calculus. A. Descartes B. Copernicus C. Leibniz D. Kepler 66. Which of the following works was not written by Francis Bacon? _ A. Essay Co

21、ncerning Human Understanding B. The Novum Organum (New Method) C. The New Atlantis D. The Advancement of Learning 67. Which of the following philosophers believed that man is selfish by nature? _ A. John Locke B. Descartes C. Pierre Gassendi D. Thomas Hobbes 68. In 1644, John Milton wrote a protest

22、against a parliamentary decree re-imposing complete censorship of the press. This was his best known prose _. A. Andromaque B. Areopagitica C. Paradise Lost D. Paradise Regained 69. Which of the following is NOT the content of the Bill of Rights which limited the Sovereigns power in certain importan

23、t directions? _ A. Parliament was responsible for all the law making. B. The power of suspending the laws by royal authority was declared to be illegal. C. The King should levy no money at any time. D. The King should not keep a standing army in time of peace without consent of Parliament. 78. Which

24、 of the following artists helped to bring the Roman Baroque style to its climax? _ A. Rubens B. Borromini C. Caravaggio D. Bernini 79. Which of the following artists helped to spread the Baroque style to North Europe? _ A. Rubens B. Velazquez C. Borromini D. Bernini 80. In painting of the 17th centu

25、ry, who won international fame and his style is basically classical, his figures are frozen and their action stiff? _ A. Christopher Wren B. Rembrandt C. Poussin D. Rubbens II. Fill in the following blanks. 1. European culture is made up of many elements, two of these elements are considered to be m

26、ore enduring and they are 2. 3. “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.” 4. In the 4th century, the emperor Constantine moved the capital from Rome to 5. 6. most influential in the West. 7. The Bible is a collection of religious writings comprising two parts: the 8. In European history

27、, the thousand year period following the fall of the West 9. As a knight, he was pledged to protect the weak, to fight for the church, to be loyal to his lord and to respect women of noble birth. These rules were known as 10. Under feudalism, people of Western Europe were mainly divided into three 1

28、1. To express their religious feelings, many people in the Middle Ages went on journeys to sacred places where early Christian leaders had lived. The most 12. Beowulf is an Anglo-Sexon epic, in verse, originating from the collective efforts of oral literature. 13. Loenardo da Vincis major works: is

29、the most famous of religious probably is the worlds most famous portrait. 14. aimed at opposing the absolute authority of the and 15. crowned literature of Spain and of England during the Renaissance. 16. 17. and are the three major dramatists of the French neoclassicism in the 17th century. III. De

30、cide whether the following statements are true or false. 1. Diogenes is chiefly noted for his doctrine that “ man is the measure of all things.” F 2. Sappho was considered the most important lyric poet of ancient Greece. T 3. Venus de Milo was discovered in the island of Milo in 1920. F 4. Roman law

31、 eventually became the core of modern civil and commercial law in many Western countries. T 5. The Romans greatly admired Greek works and freely borrowed from them. And besides being profound, powerful and beautiful, their own writings showed little originality. F 6. After 392 A.D., Christianity had changed from an object of oppression to a weapon in the hands of the ruling class to crush