Chapter 48 · Chapter exam
Chapter 48 exam
A 9-question review of all 4 lessons in Chapter 48. Answer every question, then check your answers: each one comes with an explanation, and you can retake the exam as often as you like.
Chapter 48 exam Chapter 48 review
9 questions · self-graded
1 Which are common syntactic means of frame-setting in Greek? Select all that apply γίνομαι + a temporal phraseμὴ γένοιτο εἰμί + a location phraseA clause beginning with περί πόσῳ μᾶλλον
Frame-setters commonly use γίνομαι /εἰμί + a temporal or location phrase, or clauses beginning with περί ; μὴ γένοιτο is an optative exclamation and πόσῳ μᾶλλον an epistemic exclamative.
2 Which of these are Aorist optative forms? Select all that apply ἐπιζητεῖ τηρηθείη δῴη σαλπίζω γενοίμην
τηρηθείη is a passive Aorist optative, δῴη the -μι optative of δίδωμι , and γενοίμην a thematic middle optative; ἐπιζητεῖ and σαλπίζω are vocabulary verbs in the present.
3 The optative itself indicates whether the content of a wish is positive or negative. True or false True False
The optative says nothing about the content of the wish, which may be positive (Rom 15:13), negative (Acts 8:20), or neutral (Luke 1:38).
4 In εἰ οὖν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἐν σοὶ σκότος ἐστίν , τὸ σκότος πόσον πόσον function? It questions the quantity of an unknown thing It exclaims a great degree of darkness It exclaims that the clause is certainly true It sets a frame for the following clause
Here πόσος is used in an exclamation of great quantity or degree: 'how great is the darkness!'
5 In ἑτέρῳ εἶπεν· σὺ δὲ πόσον ὀφείλεις ; (Luke 16:7), why does σύ come before the question word πόσον ? It is focused and negates alternatives It agrees with πόσον in case It is an aboutness frame-setter It is in topic position, marked by δέ
The explicit subject is in topic position, as δέ indicates, so it precedes the fronted question word.
6 Why is μηκέτι … μηδεὶς καρπὸν φάγοι (Mark 11:14) closer to a true prohibition than a mere wish? Because the optative is always imperatival Because it uses the phrase μὴ γένοιτο Because the speaker's words carry authority Because φάγοι is a sigmatic form
When the speaker's words carry authority, negative optative sentences become closer to prohibitions; Jesus's curse withered the fig tree.
7 In ὃς ἐὰν δέξηται ἓν παιδίον τοιοῦτο τοιοῦτο connect the child to? The humble child Jesus had just described Any child at all Jesus himself The disciples who were listening
τοιοῦτος links a referent to a description; receiving the humble child described in Matt 18:2–4, not just any child, equals receiving Jesus.
8 In Rom 9:26, after the location frame καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῷ τόπῳ …, which word is fronted for focus? λαός κληθήσονται υἱοί ἐκεῖ
ἐκεῖ is used anaphorically and fronted for focus ('there and not somewhere else'), showing that frame-setters can co-occur with focus.
9 What is the masculine genitive plural of τοιοῦτος ? τοιούτου τοιούτοις τοιούτων τοιούτους
τοιοῦτος is inflected like οὗτος ; the gen pl is τοιούτων , while τοιούτου is gen sg, τοιούτοις dat pl, and τοιούτους acc pl.
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