Translation History

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Translation History

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1) What does the abbreviation SL stand for in Translation Studies? *

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2) What does TL mean in Translation Studies? *

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3) Cicero was a Roman orator and philosopher, who *

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A) rejected the sense-for-sense approach towards translation

B) rejected the word-for-word approach towards translation

4) Where was the Rosetta Stone found? *

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A) in Budapest

B) in the suburbs of London

C) in the Parisian metropolitan area

D) near the town Rosetta

5) Who invented the alphabet? *

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A) No single person or people invented the alphabet, it slowly evolved over hundreds of years.

B) Eshmunazar II, Phoenician king of Sidon

C) Menes, pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt

D) the Celts

6) The Septuagint is ___________________ *

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A) the first official Latin translation of the Bible

B) the first Latin translation of the Bible

C) the first Greek translation of the Old and New Testaments

D) a collection of various Greek translations of the Old Testament

7) The meaning of the saying “traduttore traditore” *

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a. Translator is a saint.

b. Translator is a faithful follower.

c. Translator is a copier.

d. Translator is a traitor.

8) ________________________________ were killed in the sixteenth century for their translations of pagan texts that did not conform to Christian dogma or of the Bible into vernacular languages. *

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A) William Tyndale and Étienne Dolet

B) John Wycliffe and Jan Hus

C) Aelfric and John Wycliffe

D) Martin Luther and John Calvin

9) The Index Librorum Prohibitorum of the Catholic Church included various translations of ______________________. *

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A) the Bible

B) Fanny Hill, a pornographic novel by by John Cleland (1748)

C) Aristophanes’ comedies

D) Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)

10) ____________________________________________ is considered to be a foundational statement of ‘Translation Studies’ as a new discipline. *

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A) George Steiner’s After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

B) James S. Holmes’s “The Name and Nature of Translation Studies”

C) Alexander Fraser Tytler’s “Essay on the Principles of Translation”

D) Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”

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