Multiple-Choice Questions
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question.
ἑσπέρας γενομένης, ἔδοξέ μοι ἤ εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν εἰσβάλλειν ἤ ἐν ταῖς ὑλαῖς φύγειν.
- At nightfall, I think I'll invade Attica or escape into the woods.
- When evening broke, I knew that Attica had been invaded and reduced to a pile of wood.
- When evening broke, it seemed good to me either to invade Attica or to escape into the woods.
οἱ νῦν παῖδες τε τὸ δίκαιον καὶ τὸ καλὸν ἀγνοοῦσιν.
- The present generation believes that beauty is justice.
- The children of today do not know justice or beauty.
- Although just and beautiful, the children of today are ignorant.
ὁ Οἰδίπους ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ὁδῷ τὸν πατέρα ἀποκτενεῖ, ἐνταῦθα δὲ τῇ καλῇ γυναικὶ τεύξεται.
- Oedipus will kill his father on the solitary mountain and will then meet with his beautiful wife.
- Oedipus will kill his father on a deserted road and then will meet his beautiful wife.
- Oedipus has slain his father on an empty road but has yet to meet his beautiful wife.
μὰ Δία! ἡ πρὸς τῇ ἀγορᾷ τὰς ἐλάας ἥδιστα ἔδεται καὶ οἴκαδε δραμεῖται.
- By Zeus! The woman at the agora will most gladly eat the olives and will then run homeward.
- Good God! She has eaten all the sweet olives in the agora and then still run home!
- By George! She is certainly consuming an awfully large portion of olives in the agora near her home.
ἐγὼ δὲ τῷ ἐχθρῷ παρῄνεσα οὐκ ἐπιστρατεύειν τῷ βασιλέως.
- I, the King, advise you, the Enemy, not to attack us.
- I advised the enemy not to attack the son of the king.
- I have warned the enemy not to plan an attack.
αἰεὶ αἱ τῶν βαρβάρων γυναῖκες ἑτοίμαι ἦσαν τε ποιεῖν τὸν νόστον καὶ φύγειν τοὺς δεσπότας.
- The women companions of the barbarians always helped them to return home and flee despotic slavery.
- There are always some barbarian women who refuse their 'nostos' and flight from their masters.
- The barbarian women were always prepared to make a 'nostos' and to escape masters.
ἥ τις θεὰ τὸν τοῦ Πήλωπος ὦμον ἔφαγεν.
- She is the goddess who will eat the shoulder of Pelops.
- Some goddess has eaten the shoulder of Pelops.
- Some god has eaten Pelops' head.