Episode 22 Quiz
Welcome to the quiz for Episode 22: Fatalism. See how much you can recall about the extraordinary Book of Ecclesiastes by clicking “START” below!
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The Spartan general Pausanias found what on the battlefield after his decisive victory at Plataea in the summer of 479 BCE?
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The opening of Ecclesiastes includes the words “Vanity of vanities” in order to describe the transience and meaninglessness of earthly existence. The Hebrew word usually translated as “vanity” is hebel. What does this word literally mean?
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The state religion of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, which Jerusalemites lived alongside for over 200 years, was called:
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What is the speaker of Ecclesiastes’ attitude toward wisdom?
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While Jerusalem sat deep within Persian territory, mainland Greece was on its extreme western fringe. During which years did Persia fight wars in mainland Greece?
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Ecclesiastes is in the
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The speaker of Ecclesiastes is
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The Book of Ecclesiastes attests that after we die,
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The Persian Empire had an especially competently designed
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Fatalism means:
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