Wanna try your hand at this week's "fun" quiz over A. T. Robertson's Weightlifting 302 textbook?
Fun Quiz over Robertson chs. 17–18
- How many voices does Modern Greek have?
 - The passive is older than the middle. T F
 - Which verb describes the “bride” — γαμέω or γαμέομαι?
 - “Deponent” verbs in most cases never had an active voice. T F
 - Why are some verbs active in the present but middle in the future?
 - What form of ἀποκρίνομαι “steadily drove out ἀπεκρίνατο?
 - “Most of the older Greek grammars were made by men who knew _________ better than Greek.”
 - The time element is more prominent in Latin than in Greek. T F
 - The regular idiom for a papyrus _______________ is ἔσχον παρά σοῦ.
 - The use of “perfective” instead of “punctiliar” brings inevitable _______________ with the perfect tense.
 - In the indicative mood, the time element is subordinate to the kind of action expressed. T F
 - The Greek tenses are used "loosely interchangeable." T F
 - Some verbs of speaking (ἔφη, ἔλεγε) are imperfect in form but _______________ in meaning.
 - “Inchoative” aorist is also called the _______________ aorist.
 - ἐδάκρυσεν (John 11:35) is usually rendered “[Jesus] wept,” but could also be translated _______________.
 - What is the ordinary Greek tense in narrative?
 - The “gnomic” aorist may also be called the _______________ aorist.
 - The aorist indicative “all but supplanted” which tense?
 - The distinction between what two tenses was obliterated in Latin?
 - The most frequent “epistolary” aorist in the New Testament is _______________.
 - The Greek aorist is translated into almost every English tense except the _______________.
 - Which tense is normally used in the subjunctive?
 - Originally, Greek prohibition was expressed only in the _______________ mood.
 - There are more articular present infinitives than articular aorist infinitives in the New Testament. T F
 - Both antecedent, simultaneous, and subsequent action can be expressed by the aorist participle. T F
 - The historical present is always aoristic. T F
 - Is μενω [sic.] present or future?
 - The future infinitive is almost always confined to _______________ discourse.
 - ἦν is strictly durative. T F
 - The time of the participle comes from the _______________ verb.
 - The perfect tense “unites” what two tenses?
 - Robertson writes, “The aorist (punctiliar) represents the action as finished….” What is wrong with this statement?
 
Extra credit. Translate into Greek (10 words maximum):
The
unworthy women have believed that God is love.          
