6 Antiquity

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6 Antiquity

History and Theory of Translation

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1) Which debate dominated the pre-twentieth-century period of translation? *

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A) Word-for-word versus sense-for-sense

B) Semantic versus sociological

C) Dynamic versus fixed

D) Linguistic versus systemic

2) Cicero became famous in the history of translation for his principles of ___________________. *

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A) word-for-word translation

B) sense-for-sense translation

C) free interpretation

D) unrestricted freedom of translation

3) The sculpture depicts________________________. *

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A) St Jerome

B) Horace

C) Cicero

D) Aelfric

4) The Septuagint ____________________________. *

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A) was made for the Jewish community in Egypt when Greek was the common language throughout the region.

B) is a free translation of the original Jewish Scripture.

C) is a faithful translation of the New Testament.

D) was translated by 80 Jewish scholars in Egypt into Greek between the 2nd and 3rd century BC.

5) St Jerome’s Vulgate was _________________________________. *

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A) the first translation of the Bible.

B) the first Greek translation of the Bible.

C) Vulgate was the first significant challenge to the position of the Septuagint as the Bible of the Church.

D) was the first Latin translation of the Bible.

6) Who is the author of the following text? Now, I not only admit but freely announce that in translating from the Greek- except in the case of the Holy Scripture, where even the syntax contains a mystery, I render not word-for-word, but sense-for-sense. *

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A) Pope Symmachus

B) Pope Damasus I

C) St Jerome

D) St Agustine

7) Pictograms are ______________________________. *

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A) symbols that are used to convey information through their resemblance to a physical object or place.

B) tools that help us remember certain facts or large amounts of information.

C) written characters that represent a word or morpheme.

8) Ulfilas created the Gothic alphabet in order to translate the Christian Bible in the fourth century by adopting an uncial Greek alphabet form and incorporating several Latin and Runic letters. *

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A) true

B) false

9) Mesrop Mashtots invented an alphabet, from 392 to 406, for the purpose of translating the Bible into Armenian. *

1 point

A) true

B) false

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