MTEL General curriculum multi subject
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Fifteenth and Sixteenth century Europe - CORRECT ANSWER - -Uprising of criticism of
organized religion because of the invention of the printing press and the widespread printing of
the bible in the vernacular and not in Latin
-Renaissance: 1) women became better educated and started writing and becoming artists 2)
realism in painting
-Transatlantic exploration
-Humanist period of thought
syntax - CORRECT ANSWER - The way in which words are put together to form phrases
semantics - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of the meaning of individual words
phonology - CORRECT ANSWER - study of speech, sound, and lexicon
lexicon - CORRECT ANSWER - the vocabulary of language
biographical approach to literacy - CORRECT ANSWER - assessed in a historical context
and connections are made between author, the work, and various actions and events unique to
their personal history
Elizabethan age in England - CORRECT ANSWER - -The Elizabethan era of Queen
Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603)
-golden age in English history "English renaissance"
-plays reflect Greek tragedy appealing to general public - not focused on politics, religion, social,
or ideologistic themes
, Pindar's Olympian i - CORRECT ANSWER - choral ode to a Sicilian ruler, it is a "lyric"
Euripides Medena - CORRECT ANSWER - based on classical greek tragedy, based on the
myth of jason and medea
Sophocles Antigone - CORRECT ANSWER - classical greek tragedy - The play expands
on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes
ends.
Homer's The Odyssey - CORRECT ANSWER - The first "epic" style greek tragedy
written - story of Odysseus a greek soldier journeying back to his home after the Trojan War
dramatic form "the comedy" - CORRECT ANSWER - amuse or delight the audience and
the action in a comedy ends happily
allegory - CORRECT ANSWER - represents abstract concepts as characters
foreshadowing - CORRECT ANSWER - anticipate action or event that is likely to occur
by referring to it delicately or indirectly
aside - CORRECT ANSWER - breaks from the action of a play and lets a character speak
to him or herself in an undertone or to the audience directly without the other characters hearing
myths - CORRECT ANSWER - supernatural or godlike beings tend to explain how
something came to exist
fairy tales - CORRECT ANSWER - contains some element of magic like charms or spells
tall tales - CORRECT ANSWER - description of outlandish or highly improbable actions
or events - related to fairy tale
UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Fifteenth and Sixteenth century Europe - CORRECT ANSWER - -Uprising of criticism of
organized religion because of the invention of the printing press and the widespread printing of
the bible in the vernacular and not in Latin
-Renaissance: 1) women became better educated and started writing and becoming artists 2)
realism in painting
-Transatlantic exploration
-Humanist period of thought
syntax - CORRECT ANSWER - The way in which words are put together to form phrases
semantics - CORRECT ANSWER - The study of the meaning of individual words
phonology - CORRECT ANSWER - study of speech, sound, and lexicon
lexicon - CORRECT ANSWER - the vocabulary of language
biographical approach to literacy - CORRECT ANSWER - assessed in a historical context
and connections are made between author, the work, and various actions and events unique to
their personal history
Elizabethan age in England - CORRECT ANSWER - -The Elizabethan era of Queen
Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603)
-golden age in English history "English renaissance"
-plays reflect Greek tragedy appealing to general public - not focused on politics, religion, social,
or ideologistic themes
, Pindar's Olympian i - CORRECT ANSWER - choral ode to a Sicilian ruler, it is a "lyric"
Euripides Medena - CORRECT ANSWER - based on classical greek tragedy, based on the
myth of jason and medea
Sophocles Antigone - CORRECT ANSWER - classical greek tragedy - The play expands
on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes
ends.
Homer's The Odyssey - CORRECT ANSWER - The first "epic" style greek tragedy
written - story of Odysseus a greek soldier journeying back to his home after the Trojan War
dramatic form "the comedy" - CORRECT ANSWER - amuse or delight the audience and
the action in a comedy ends happily
allegory - CORRECT ANSWER - represents abstract concepts as characters
foreshadowing - CORRECT ANSWER - anticipate action or event that is likely to occur
by referring to it delicately or indirectly
aside - CORRECT ANSWER - breaks from the action of a play and lets a character speak
to him or herself in an undertone or to the audience directly without the other characters hearing
myths - CORRECT ANSWER - supernatural or godlike beings tend to explain how
something came to exist
fairy tales - CORRECT ANSWER - contains some element of magic like charms or spells
tall tales - CORRECT ANSWER - description of outlandish or highly improbable actions
or events - related to fairy tale
