Final Exam
2:00 May 1, 2018 in our regular classroom (Languages 114)
(Take home option can be arranged by appointment, due in my mailbox in the ClSt office (Allen 233) by 4:30 pm May 1, 2018)
Part I will be principal parts as listed on our web site (>Verbs), along with other warm-up exercises. Any form identified for memorization in the assignments for chapters 25-28 is fair play: e.g., forms for the optative, forms for the perfect, etc.
Part II of the exam will be the verbal synopsis sheet. The one-page study sheet can be downloaded here: Synopsis.pdf. A blank chart for practice can be downloaded here: SynopsisBlank.pdf.
Part III will be readings from the textbook, with the usual questions for explication of points of grammar. These will be taken from the materials read since the last exam, that is chapters 25-28.
Part IV will be one or two readings at sight. To prepare for this reading, you will need to review vocabulary from the entire year, in addition to being sure that you are confident with identification of forms and grammar.
The sight reading will be based on one or more of the tales from Book One of Herodotus, so you will want to read Book One of the translation in The Essential Herodotus (click here to download PDF). Your Athenaze textbook bases its text on excerpts from these stories, but often adjusts and changes details. For that reason DO NOT use the translation here as a basis for interpreting the details of the Athenaze text.
Part II of the exam will be the verbal synopsis sheet. The one-page study sheet can be downloaded here: Synopsis.pdf. A blank chart for practice can be downloaded here: SynopsisBlank.pdf.
Part III will be readings from the textbook, with the usual questions for explication of points of grammar. These will be taken from the materials read since the last exam, that is chapters 25-28.
Part IV will be one or two readings at sight. To prepare for this reading, you will need to review vocabulary from the entire year, in addition to being sure that you are confident with identification of forms and grammar.
The sight reading will be based on one or more of the tales from Book One of Herodotus, so you will want to read Book One of the translation in The Essential Herodotus (click here to download PDF). Your Athenaze textbook bases its text on excerpts from these stories, but often adjusts and changes details. For that reason DO NOT use the translation here as a basis for interpreting the details of the Athenaze text.
Check List
Principal Parts
Verbal Synopsis
Paradigms:
Concepts:
Verbal Synopsis
Paradigms:
- optative for λύω: progressive/aorist, active/middle/passive
- optative for εἰμί, εἶμι
- perfect & pluperfect of λύω, indicative, infinitive, participle
- perfect of οἶδα, indicative, subjunctive, optative, imperative, infinitive
Concepts:
- Conditionals (see conditionals sheet): know and understand terms generalizing/indefinite conditions, present/past contrary-to-fact, future less vivid (should-would) condition
- Be prepared to fill out the chart below. Your prompt will be the boldface headings.
Types of the Optatives, with signals and meanings |
Types of Optative
1. wish - εἴθε, εἰ γάρ - "Would that!" "I wish that!" 2. potential - ἄν - "would" 3. in subordinate clauses when in secondary sequence (see subtypes below) Subtypes of subordinate clauses that optatives appear in 1. subordinate clauses that take the subjunctive (see subjunctives chart) - ἄν disappears when optative replaces an indefinite or generalizing subjunctive - shift to the optative does not change the meaning or translation 2. indirect question or statement - shift to the optative does not change the meaning or translation 3. object clauses (clauses that substitute for the direct object of a sentence) - shift to the optative does not change the meaning or translation |
The final exam is cumulative for forms and syntax and concepts and vocabulary. Be sure to review the checklists for previous exams for, especially, the forms and concepts you are expected to command.
Exam 2 - March 28, 2018
1. Nail down the vocabulary. If you're having troubles, recall that memrise can help. Be sure to know vocabulary both ways: English to Greek as well as Greek to English.
2. You need to have active control over all the principal parts under the Verbs tab. Review so that you can use this knowledge to help with your reading and parsing. Work on going backwards - seeing the aorist or future and recalling the present.
3. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
6. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed for last semester (see dukegreek101.weebly.com) and for the items listed for this semester's first exam (see above).
7. Be prepared to fill out either of the charts below. Your prompt will be the boldface headings.
2. You need to have active control over all the principal parts under the Verbs tab. Review so that you can use this knowledge to help with your reading and parsing. Work on going backwards - seeing the aorist or future and recalling the present.
3. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
- progressive and aorist subjunctive for λύω, active and middle and passive, pp. 86-88
- 2nd aorist subjunctive for λείπω, active and middle, p. 88
- progressive subjunctive for εἰμί and εἶμι, p.. 98
- progressive and aorist subjunctive of δίδωμι, active, middle, passive, p. 98
- you will not be asked to produce the paradigms for the rest of the -μι verbs on pp.98-100, but review thoroughly to be sure you have firm control on the recognition and parsing of all these forms
- the 4 moods (indicative, imperative, subjunctive, optative) and what they mean; recall that the subjunctive has two basic forces: (1) world of possibility in contrast to the indicative's world of reality; (2) to indicate subordination, that a clause is dependent. These two possibilities are not exclusive.
- recognition and parsing of subjunctive forms: the 3 aspects of the subjunctive (progressive, aorist, perfect), and how to recognize
- 3 types of independent subjunctive with their signals and meanings; the 3 types of dependent subjunctive with their signals and meanings; the 3 subtypes of indefinite/generalizing dependent clauses (memorize chart below)
- 3 types of indirect statement with their signals (memorize chart below)
- 2 types of comparative: (1) -τερος, -τατος (2) -ίων (gen. -ίονος), -ιστος (see p. 158)
- Deverbative suffixes and their meanings: -της, -ευς, -τηρ, -τρος (agent nouns: the person who does X) : -σις (the act of Xing : always recessive accent, always feminine, declines like πόλις), -μα (the result, what is Xed : always recessive accent, always neuter, genitive -ματος), p. 136
- Denominative suffixes -ίζω, -άζω
- "articular infinitive" p. 138
- ὅπως + future (as opposed to ὅπως + subj.) : "(see to it) that"
6. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed for last semester (see dukegreek101.weebly.com) and for the items listed for this semester's first exam (see above).
7. Be prepared to fill out either of the charts below. Your prompt will be the boldface headings.
Types of the Subjunctive with signals and meanings |
Independent
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Types of Indirect Statement (say/think/know/see "that") |
Indirect Statement
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Exam 1 - February 21, 2018
1. Nail down the vocabulary. If you're having troubles, recall that memrise can help. Be sure to know vocabulary both ways: English to Greek as well as Greek to English.
2. You need to have active control over all the principal parts under the Verbs tab. Be ready to write out the unbracketed forms from memory; and use this knowledge to help with your reading and parsing.
2. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
5. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed for last semester (see dukegreek101.weebly.com). (Paradigms on this exam will, however, will be drawn only from the list given above under #2.)
2. You need to have active control over all the principal parts under the Verbs tab. Be ready to write out the unbracketed forms from memory; and use this knowledge to help with your reading and parsing.
2. Be sure to command these paradigms and be ready to write them out without hesitation:
- aorist and future passive for λύω and γράφω, including infinitives and participles
- present and past progressive (imperfect) for δίδωμι, active and middle-passive, including participle
- present progressive active for τίθημι, ἵστημι, ἵημι (present active only: you need to be able to recognize the imperfect, and the middle-passive forms, but you will not be asked to generate these as a paradigm)
- aorist active for δίδωμι, τίθημι, ἵημι, including participles
- aorist active, including both first and second aorist, for ἵστημι, including participles
- Passive versus middle
- Aorist of Deponent verbs (p. 15)
- Genitive Absolute (p. 44)
- ἵστημι: transitive and intransitive uses and forms (p. 45f.)
- καθίστημι: meaning and idiom (p. 58)
- Supplementary participles after certain verbs: meaning, idiom (p. 76)
5. Learning Greek is by its nature cumulative, so make sure you're firm on the items listed for last semester (see dukegreek101.weebly.com). (Paradigms on this exam will, however, will be drawn only from the list given above under #2.)
