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Modern Greek Literature and Authors

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  1. Which poet wrote the Hymn to Liberty, whose first two stanzas became the Greek national anthem?
  2. Which two Greek poets won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
  3. In which city did Constantine Cavafy spend most of his life?
  4. What is the central idea of Cavafy's poem 'Ithaka'?
  5. Which writer wrote the novel 'Zorba the Greek'?
  6. What is the main subject of Homer's Odyssey?
  7. What is the main subject of Homer's Iliad?
  8. For which poem is the Cypriot poet Vasilis Michaelides best known?
  9. Alexandros Papadiamantis is best known for what kind of writing, set mostly on which island?
  10. Which composer set Elytis's long poem 'Axion Esti' to music in 1964?
  11. What name is given to the group of nineteenth-century poets from the Ionian Islands, which included Solomos and Kalvos?
  12. Andreas Kalvos is best known for which work?
  13. Which sequence of language reforms is in the correct order?
  14. In which city was the poet George Seferis born, a place whose loss in 1922 shaped his work?
  15. Read the lines: 'The harbour lights shake in the water, / and every boat tugs at its rope, / as if the sea were calling it home.' Which statement best explains the effect of the last line?
  16. In Cavafy's 'Waiting for the Barbarians', the poem ends by saying the barbarians 'were a kind of solution'. What is the effect of this ending?
  17. Which two poets are best known for poetry in the Cypriot dialect around the turn of the twentieth century?
  18. What event inspired Yannis Ritsos to write his poem 'Epitaphios', later set to music by Mikis Theodorakis?
  19. In Book 9 of the Odyssey, why do the other Cyclopes not come to help Polyphemus after he has been blinded?
  20. On which island was the poet Dionysios Solomos born?

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