CSTU CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS EXAMPREP
MATERIAL
●● Classical Ideal: Humanism
Answer: Confidence in human power and ingenuity.
●● Classical Ideal: Fatalism
Answer: Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction.
●● Minoan Culture
Answer: Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural
creation.
Development of pottery.
Labyrinth and Minotaur.
●● Mycenaean Culture
Answer: Warrior Civilization.
Central in Iliad and Odyssey.
Wealthy with palace-cities (network of states)
●● Poetry and Value: Epic
, Answer: Focused on the demonstration and communal values and
memory.
●● Key Features: Epic
Answer: Epic invocation.
Thematic statement.
Divine Intervention/Negotiation.
Vast scope.
●● Homer
Answer: Composes the Iliad and the Odyssey.
●● The Iliad
Answer: Story of Achilles and the Siege of Troy.
Depicts the death of Hector and Greek funerary rites.
●● The Odyssey
Answer: Journey of the Odysseus.
●● Poetry and Value: Lyric
Answer: Individual emotions and reflections.
Composed in 1st person.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS EXAMPREP
MATERIAL
●● Classical Ideal: Humanism
Answer: Confidence in human power and ingenuity.
●● Classical Ideal: Fatalism
Answer: Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction.
●● Minoan Culture
Answer: Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural
creation.
Development of pottery.
Labyrinth and Minotaur.
●● Mycenaean Culture
Answer: Warrior Civilization.
Central in Iliad and Odyssey.
Wealthy with palace-cities (network of states)
●● Poetry and Value: Epic
, Answer: Focused on the demonstration and communal values and
memory.
●● Key Features: Epic
Answer: Epic invocation.
Thematic statement.
Divine Intervention/Negotiation.
Vast scope.
●● Homer
Answer: Composes the Iliad and the Odyssey.
●● The Iliad
Answer: Story of Achilles and the Siege of Troy.
Depicts the death of Hector and Greek funerary rites.
●● The Odyssey
Answer: Journey of the Odysseus.
●● Poetry and Value: Lyric
Answer: Individual emotions and reflections.
Composed in 1st person.