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Modern Greek Literature, Language and Text Analysis

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  1. Which Greek poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963?
  2. Which Greek poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1979?
  3. Who wrote the poem 'Hymn to Liberty' (1823), whose first two stanzas became the Greek national anthem?
  4. Which novel by Nikos Kazantzakis is about a Greek narrator and a lively worker named Alexis?
  5. Constantine Cavafy, a major poet of modern Greek, spent most of his life in which city?
  6. How many letters does the modern Greek alphabet have?
  7. In 1976 the Greek state made which form of the language the official one for education and administration?
  8. What was the main change in Greek spelling introduced in 1982?
  9. Who wrote 'To Taxidi mou' (My Journey, 1888), a manifesto in favour of demotic Greek?
  10. Which cases does Modern Greek use for nouns?
  11. In 'Σωκράτη, έλα εδώ', which case is the noun Σωκράτη and why?
  12. Which writer is best known for the story 'The Murderess' (I Fonissa), set on the island of Skiathos?
  13. Which long poem by Yiannis Ritsos, set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, mourns a young worker?
  14. Which Cretan romance of the 17th century, in about ten thousand lines of rhymed verse, tells of the love of Erotokritos and Aretousa?
  15. What is the Byzantine epic Digenis Akritas about?
  16. Which literary group, with Seferis and Elytis among its poets, is called the Generation of the 1930s?
  17. Which poet belonged to the Ionian School and wrote 'The Free Besieged', about the siege of Missolonghi?
  18. Stratis Myrivilis wrote which novel about a soldier's experience in the trenches of the First World War?
  19. Dido Sotiriou's novel 'Farewell Anatolia' (Matomena Homata) deals with which historical event?
  20. In Greek, which particle is used to form the subjunctive, as in 'Θέλω να φύγω'?
  21. In the Greek sentence 'Θα φύγω αύριο', what does the particle 'θα' mark?
  22. Which Greek letter combinations all represent the vowel sound /i/?
  23. In an argumentative text, what is the purpose of ethos?
  24. Which mode of persuasion appeals mainly to the emotions of the reader?
  25. Which figure of speech is used in 'Η ζωή είναι ένα ταξίδι'?
  26. What is a topic sentence in a paragraph?
  27. In the Panhellenic text-based exam, what does a 'summary' of a passage require?
  28. Which poet wrote 'Ithaka', a poem about the value of the journey?
  29. What is 'diglossia' in the history of Modern Greek?
  30. Kostis Palamas is best known for which role in Greek poetry?
  31. What did Solomos argue in his 'Dialogue' about the language question?
  32. Which sequence of events about the Greek language is in the correct order?
  33. In 'Αν βρέξει, θα μείνουμε σπίτι', what kind of clause is 'Αν βρέξει'?
  34. Which of these statements about the Generation of the 1930s is right?
  35. Which excerpt shows logos rather than pathos?
  36. Which pair is correctly matched with its subject?
  37. Which poet is known as the 'poet of the sea' for such works as 'Marabou'?
  38. Georgios Vizyinos is regarded as a pioneer of which genre in Greek literature?
  39. A writer argues: 'Everyone reads this newspaper, so its reports must be reliable.' Which weakness does this argument have?
  40. In a debate someone replies to an economist's data with 'You are not qualified to talk, since you have never run a business.' What kind of fallacy is this?

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