Greek Literature Quiz The answers appear after the last question, number 15.
1. Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Sophocles
d. Homer2. Which Greek poet wrote Works and Days?
a. Hesiod
b. Homer
c. Socrates
d. Solon3. Who is considered the first Athenian poet?
a. Callinus
b. Theognis
c. Solon
d. Mimnermus4. Who is believed to have invented iambic verse?
a. Archilochus
b. Aesop
c. Plato
d. Ovid5. Who is considered the first Greek lyric poet?
a. Apollo
b. Spartacus
c. Lesbos
d. Terpander6. Who is the greatest woman poet of ancient Greece?
a. Sappho
b. Helen
c. Diana
d. Leah7. Who wrote Prometheus Bound?
a. Oedipus
b. Orestes
c. Aeschylus
d. Homer8. Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
a. Sophocles
b. Aristotle
c. Aeschylus
d. Antigone9. Who is Medea's husband?
a. Hercules
b. Apollo
c. Zeus
d. Jason10. Who does Aristophanes ridicule in The Clouds?
a. Socrates
b. Euripides
c. Satan
d. God11. Herodotus is considered what kind of writer?
a. poet
b. historian
c. novelist
d. essayist12. Who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War?
a. Herodotus
b. Agamemnon
c. Xenophon
d. Thucydides13. What was Demosthenes?
a. an orator
b. a priest
c. a king
d. a banker14. Who was a pupil of Plato?
a. Aristotle
b. Alexander
c. Homer
d. Socrates15. Who is Oedipus' daughter?
a. Electra
b. Ruth
c. Antigone
d. Clytemnestra
Answers: 1-d, 2-a, 3-c, 4-a, 5-d, 6-a, 7-c, 8-a, 9-d, 10-a, 11-b, 12-d, 13-a, 14-a, 15-c
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