CLAS 175: Take-at-Home Reading/Terms Quiz

Instructions for taking this quiz:

The BEST way, and one that you ALL should be able to manage (if you have an E-Mail account, and I require you to have one) is as follows:

1)Make sure that you accessed this page through the LYNX browser available on MAIL.SAS.
2)Once you have read these instructions, press 'p'.
3)The program will ask you if you want to print the quiz (you do not), if you want to save the quiz to a file (you don't) or if you desire to mail the quiz to yourself. You do. Make sure that the address the program displays is the correct one. If it isn't, correct it. Then hit 'return.'
4)Q_uit Lynx and wait for this quiz (relieved of its Weird World Wide Web formatting) to show up as a letter in your mailbox.
5)F_orward that letter to me. The address (and if you miss this question, you miss all the others!) is rrice if you're writing from mail.sas, which you most likely are, rrice@mail.sas.upenn.edu in all other eventualities. You will see my full name come up as a confirmation from mail.sas.
5)When ELM (or whatever your browser) asks you if you wish to edit the outgoing text, you do. You do, a lot.
6)Scroll down to the areas immediately below the questions below, and type your answers. At the end, holding the 'control' key and 'x' will send the whole upon its way.
7)Sit back and await results. I will definitely have the lot of them graded before the Mid-Term on the 8th, and we will discuss this quiz in class as well.

A brief note: You stand to suffer more severely than by a bad grade by cheating! The idea is to see what you DON'T know yet, rather than how well you can crib. You won't be able to use your books during either of the two examinations to come. I believe and hope that this warning is unecessary. Budget 20 minutes tops to complete the quiz, once you begin taking it in earnest.

Part I:

Identify two of these three terms. Give me three (or so) sentences telling me 1)who, where,or what it is; 2)some species of time frame; and 3)the item's significance for this class, in the terms of your recent (Aineias) reading.

gatekeeper

shrines

the agora

Part II:

A single paragraph should handle this nicely. Who wrote this (no holds to be barred on the midterm)? What does it describe, and why do we care? Once you get past the identification, make an argument from what you see and what you know.

"Something else which must be prohibited is going to bed with lanterns or other night-lights. This is because it has been known for individuals, finding themselves utterly thwarted in their wish to start a revolution or to intrigue with the enemy to ... make a pre-arranged signal."