Which Greek lyric poet, when accused of abandoning his shield in battle, said, let the shield go;

I can buy
another one?
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a. Agathon
b. Palamedes.
c. Euripides
d. Archilochus

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Which of the following is NOT one of the five humorous situations we have discussed?
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a. being naked in public
b. having an accident in the workplace
c. getting drunk and doing improbable things.
d. being caught running away

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According to Ren Girard,

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a. comedy derives from tragedy
b. comedy and tragedy are equal, but opposite
c. comedy includes tragedy as part of itself
d. comedy and tragedy are so dissimilar that it is a waste of time to compare the two.

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In Aristophanes comedy, Knights, the lead character is named Demus. To what English word is his name
related?
Select one:
a. demonstrations
b. democracy
c. demons
d. demoralization.

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What was the name of the infamous house in Agrigento whose inhabitants threw away all their furniture?
The
Select one:
a. vomitorium
b. academy
c. trireme
d. stables.

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In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a picture of a(n) ______________ is the determinative for the word knd, to be
furious.
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a. crocodile.
b. eagle

c. baboon
d. staf

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Who thought that laughter, like sin, tends to be enjoyed in company rather than alone?
Select one:
a. Aristophanes
b. Plato
c. St Paul
d. St Augustine.

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When Odysseus meets Nausicaa, she has gone to the beach in order to
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a. look for a husband

b. get away from the local Scherian gossips.
c. do the laundry
d. play ball

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What is the title of Lawrence E. Mintzs article in American Quarterly 37 (1985) 71-80?
Select one:
a. "American Humour Looks at Family Values"
b. "Unity and Diversity in American Humour"
c. "Situation Comedy"
d. Standup Comedy as Social and Cultural Mediation

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Henri Bergsons concept of the lan vital refers to the

Select one:
a. dynamism of competition between humans and their surroundings
b. mechanism of competition and chance mutation as it relates to human lifestyle.
c. dynamism that allows humans to adapt to changing circumstances
d. system that allows humans to adapt their surroundings to their lifestyles

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Head on over to the vocabulary tool on Perseus Digital

Library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/vocablist Show documents in Latin, and click Show all.
Scroll down to P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Show ALL words, then click show vocabulary. After it finishes
loading, answer the question: How many times at minimum do the verbs, arrideo, rideo, and irrideo
appear in total in the text?
Select one:
a. 28
b. 26
c. 0
d. 27

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Egyptian humour is recorded on stone wall-carvings; the Babylonians on ___________.

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a. papyrus
b. parchment.
c. clay tablets
d. paper

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Whom did Polyphemus think was blinding him?

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a. Nobody
b. Odysseus
c. the other Cyclopes.
d. Poseidon

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Catullus erection in poem 32 is an example of what type of humorous situation?

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a. being stuck somewhere
b. Biblical humour
c. loss of bodily control.
d. public nudity

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What, according to legend, did the Spartan mother say to her son as he went of to battle?
Select one:
a. Know thyself.
b. Come back in one piece.
c. Go with Zeus.

d. With it or on it.

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Mary Douglas says that the joke pattern needs two elements, the juxtaposition of a control against that
which is controlled, this juxtaposition being such that the latter triumphs. The purpose or efect of this
triumph is to
Select one:
a. aford an opportunity for realizing that the accepted pattern has no necessity.
b. let people misbehave
c. reinforce the status quo
d. bring about social change

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In the study of the Norwegian fishing-boat it was discovered that while the ship is sailing to the fishinggrounds, the netboss constantly jokes in order to
Select one:

a. entertain the crew

b. subvert the power-structure
c. cover up his bad case of nerves.
d. pass the time

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The Greeks normally drank

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a. beer.
b. wine mixed with water

c. wine unmixed with water

d. milk unmixed with water

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l. Pirandello thought that the family was

Select one:
a. a blessing
b. a trap
c. an illusion.
d. funny

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Diogenes the Cynic lived

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a. on a desert island.
b. in a cave

c. in a barrel in the market-place

d. on top of a pillar

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Hectors helmet in the scene in which he tries to hold his baby might be described as
Select one:
a. an emphasis on his paternity (semen was stored in the brain)
b. a mark of disrespect
c. something mechanical encrusted upon something living.
d. a sign of his unreasoning violence

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Who does NOT laugh out loud in the Odyssey?

Select one:
a. Odysseus
b. Hermes
c. Penelopes suitors
d. Apollo.

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A modern advertising slogan, Shield: $60.00; life: priceless could have been inspired by which Greek
lyric poet?
Select one:
a. Archimedes
b. Archilochus
c. Areopagus.
d. Aristophanes

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The concept of lan vital is basic to the philosophy of
Select one:
a. Aristotle.
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Martin Heidegger

d. Henri Bergson

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While the Babylonians and Hebrews enjoyed both situational and _________ aspects of humour, the later
Greek and Roman humour was based mainly on ____________.
Select one:
a. character-based/ situations
b. satiric/ characters.
c. character-based/ characters
d. aggressive/ situations

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According to Catullus, who is the worst poet of all?

Select one:
a. Volusius

b. Lesbia.
c. Cicero
d. Catullus

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Ren Girard wrote, _______________ is much more of a crisis than tears [because] the pattern is much
more visible in the comic than in the tragic; the ____________ to the autonomy of the spectator is more
urgent and serious in comedy than tragedy.
Select one:
a. sadness/ advantage
b. laughter/ threat
c. anger/ humiliation
d. humiliation/ benefit.

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Mimetic desire is central to the world-view of

Select one:
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Luigi Pirandello
c. Ren Girard.
d. Charles Baudelaire

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In the Odyssey, Odysseus must fight _______________, the not-so-young, not-so-beautiful, not-so-sexy
male version of the goddess of the Rainbow in order to entertain ______________s suitors
Select one:
a. Thersites/ Clytaemnestra.
b. Telemachus/ Priamel
c. Irus/ Penelope
d. Pelops/ Persephone

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If accessing of-campus, select the connect from of campus link on the library home webpage. Then
copy and paste the URL. Grab yourself a .pdf of The Sacrifice of Isaac as Comedy and Tragedy by John
R. Elliott Jr. on JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4173627Answer the question, Which of the following
terms, borrowed from Aristotle, is NOT one of the six parts of ritual plots in medieval dramas? [Hint:
Maybe theres a command or function that allows one to search a document for key words]
Select one:
a. Threnos
b. Paraphrase
c. Agon
d. Theophany

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On the Norwegian fishing-ship while it is on its way to the fishing-grounds and before the nets have been
deployed, the netboss diferentiates himself from the skipper by
Select one:
a. telling jokes
b. using gross language and curses

c. carefully refraining from skipping

d. remaining silent.

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h. Bergsons philosophy is much concerned with

Select one:
a. the unconscious
b. lan vital
c. scapegoating
d. the family as a trap.

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http://library.queensu.ca/research/databases/ Get to the Database section of Queens Universitys Library

website, then access ProQuest. In the main search box, type Pirandello. Next, type Bergson in the
second row search box after AND. Select and set the search to the following: Limit to Full Text, Source

Type: Dissertations & Theses, and Document Type: Dissertation/Thesis. Answer the question, how
many results are there?
Select one:
a. Somewhere between 604-612
b. Somewhere between 268-278
c. Somewhere between 575-584
d. Somewhere between 249-267

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What did General Nicias suggest Cleon could do if he didnt like the way he was running the army? He
could
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a. go to the crows
b. sacrifice to Athena for victory.
c. lead the army himself
d. elect another general

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According to Desmond Morris, in terms of human evolution which activity came first?
Select one:
a. gurgling
b. laughing
c. crying
d. tweeting.

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In the Hebrew Bible, why does Sarah laugh when the stranger foretells her pregnancy? She
Select one:
a. knows she is infertile
b. knows that Abraham is impotent.
c. already knows she is pregnant
d. is too old

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In Aristophanes Frogs Dionysus asks his slave, Xanthias for a sponge, because he
Select one:
a. has spilled milk on the kitchen floor of Mt Olympus
b. has vomited on Zeuss sandal.
c. would like to take a bath
d. has just shat himself

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In Aristophanes Clouds what is Cleonymus accused of having thrown away? His

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a. shield
b. purse.
c. armour

d. sword

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Why are Egnatius teeth so white according to Catullus?
Select one:
a. they just look white in contrast to his bushy black beard.
b. he does not smoke
c. he never drinks red wine
d. he washes them with urine

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For what does the poet Catullus ask his sweet Ipsitilla/ [his] darling, [his] clever one in Poem 32?
Select one:
a. an afternoon of sex.

b. a cloak to hide his erection

c. her hand in marriage
d. a polished three-line poem