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AMS 1170 EXAM 2 – MIZZOU 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
What vehicle is Demeter typically shown driving? - correct answer
-chariot --- with torches to look for her daughter
What god can you recognize in Epizephyrian Locri name? What
does that tell you about this city's location relative to Greece? In
what modern country is this place located? - correct answer -
Zephyr
west of greek homeland -- southern italy
What well-preserved art form (lost from most other parts of
Greece) has survived in the royal tombs in Macedonia? - correct
answer -paintings
In what modern country is Sicily, which was heavily colonized by
the ancient Greeks, located? - correct answer -Italy
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Which ancient Greek-themed ballet of Michel Fokine's premiered
in 1912? - correct answer -Daphnis and Chloe -- or Faun ??
What popular 1908 novel did Kenneth Grahame write? - correct
answer -The Wind in the Willows
In the 1984 music video for I Want To Break Free, who is Queen's
frontman, Freddie Mercury, dressed up as? - correct answer -
Bakst's costume for Vatslav Nijinsky in Faun
Whose groundbreaking performance did Rudolf Nureyev
reproduce? - correct answer -Nijinsky in Faun (redid afternoon of
a faun)
What ballet did Vatslav Nijinsky choreograph and what role did he
dance? What is remarkable about the choreography? What is
especially remarkable about the posture of one of the main
characters, in one specific spot in the ballet? - correct answer -
L'Apres-midi d'un faune -- played the Faun
AMS 1170 EXAM 2 – MIZZOU 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS| ACE
YOUR GRADES.
What vehicle is Demeter typically shown driving? - correct answer
-chariot --- with torches to look for her daughter
What god can you recognize in Epizephyrian Locri name? What
does that tell you about this city's location relative to Greece? In
what modern country is this place located? - correct answer -
Zephyr
west of greek homeland -- southern italy
What well-preserved art form (lost from most other parts of
Greece) has survived in the royal tombs in Macedonia? - correct
answer -paintings
In what modern country is Sicily, which was heavily colonized by
the ancient Greeks, located? - correct answer -Italy
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Which ancient Greek-themed ballet of Michel Fokine's premiered
in 1912? - correct answer -Daphnis and Chloe -- or Faun ??
What popular 1908 novel did Kenneth Grahame write? - correct
answer -The Wind in the Willows
In the 1984 music video for I Want To Break Free, who is Queen's
frontman, Freddie Mercury, dressed up as? - correct answer -
Bakst's costume for Vatslav Nijinsky in Faun
Whose groundbreaking performance did Rudolf Nureyev
reproduce? - correct answer -Nijinsky in Faun (redid afternoon of
a faun)
What ballet did Vatslav Nijinsky choreograph and what role did he
dance? What is remarkable about the choreography? What is
especially remarkable about the posture of one of the main
characters, in one specific spot in the ballet? - correct answer -
L'Apres-midi d'un faune -- played the Faun
