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. Homer
2. Which Greek poet wrote Works and Days?
a. Hesiod
b. Homer
c. Socrates
d. Solon
3. Who is considered the first Athenian poet?
a. Callinus
b. Theognis
c. Solon
d. Mimnermus
4. Who is believed to have invented iambic verse?
a. Archilochus
b. Aesop
c. Plato
d. Ovid
5. Who is considered the first Greek lyric poet?
a. Apollo
b. Spartacus
c. Lesbos
d. Terpander
6. Who is the greatest woman poet of ancient Greece?
a. Sappho
b. Helen
c. Diana
d. Leah
7. Who wrote Prometheus Bound?
a. Oedipus
b. Orestes
c. Aeschylus
d. Homer
8. Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
a. Sophocles
b. Aristotle
c. Aeschylus
d. Antigone
9. Who is Medea's husband?
a. Hercules
b. Apollo
c. Zeus
d. Jason
10. Who does Aristophanes ridicule in The Clouds?
a. Socrates
b. Euripides
c. Satan
d. God
11. Herodotus is considered what kind of writer?
a. poet
b. historian
c. novelist
d. essayist
12. Who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War?
a. Herodotus
b. Agamemnon
c. Xenophon
d. Thucydides
13. What was Demosthenes?
a. an orator
b. a priest
c. a king
d. a banker
14. Who was a pupil of Plato?
a. Aristotle
b. Alexander
c. Homer
d. Socrates
15. 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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