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A quiz for Prentice Hall World History Chapter 4. #ancientgreece
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1
What is the Greek word for city-state?
Iliad
Ecclesia
Isonomia
Polis
2
What two epic poems did Homer tell?
The Good and The Evil
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The Young and The Restless
The Polis and The Oligarchy
3
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Greek art?
Full of symbolism and hidden meaning
Glorifies the individual
Combined beauty and usefulness
Glorifies the city-state
4
"The strong do what they can & the weak suffer what they must" describes what political theory?
Democracy
Antidisestablishmentarianism
Evolution
Realism
5
Who was the leader of the Persian Empire at the time of Alexander the Great?
Darius III
Homer
Themistocles
Darius I
6
Banishing a person from the city-state for a period of ten years is called ______.
Alliance
Assassination
Ostracism
Oligarchy
7
According to Greek mythology, where did many of the Greek gods reside?
Inside each and every one of us
On the Isthmus of Corinth
In the Black Sea
On top of Mount Olympus
8
What was the alliance of 140 city-states under the leadership of Athens called?
Axis Powers
Quadruple Alliance
Peloponnesian League
Delian League
9
Free residents of a state are called _____.
Phalanx
Helots
Slaves
Citizens
10
Who is called the "Father of History"? He wrote a more interestingly than his contemporaries.
Thucydides
Euripides
Herodotus
Socrates
11
Thucydides wrote
The History of the Peloponnesian War
, which is considered a _____ source.
Secondary
Tertiary
Primary
Persian
12
Who was the beautiful queen whose kidnapping sparked the Trojan War of archaic Greek legend?
Olympias
Athena
Hera
Helen
13
What subject taught the art of persuasive public speaking in ancient Athenian schools?
Literature
History
Drama
Rhetoric
14
Who wrote
The Republic
, which outlined his view of an ideal society led by philosophers?
Plato
Socrates
Pericles
Thucydides
15
What body of water is due east of Greece?
Ionian Sea
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Atlantic Ocean
16
In his work,
The Republic
, Plato proposed all of the following social classes EXCEPT
Soldiers
Philosophers
Workers
Priests
17
Who was the leader whose armies burned Athens, but whose fleet sank at Salamis?
Pericles
Alexander the Great
Xerxes
Darius I
18
Which government is run by a hereditary, wealthy landholding elite class?
Democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Aristocracy
19
What war featured Athens and its allies against Sparta and its allies?
Persian War II
Peloponnesian War
Persian War I
World War I
20
Which tyrant created the Council of 500 as part of his democratic reforms to the government?
Cleisthenes
Pericles
Leonidas
Pisistratus
21
Which of the following is NOT a manner in which Alexander the Great encouraged assimilation?
He dressed in the Persian style
He married a Persian woman & encouraged others to as well
He defeated Darius III's armies in battle
He gathered texts from all over his empire to be his museum
22
What was the most important cultural city of the Hellenistic world?
Athens, Greece
Jerusalem, Palestine
Troy, Asia Minor
Alexandria, Egypt
23
A ___ is a fixed salary paid for service to those who took part in the Assembly under Pericles.
Jury
Celery
Stipend
Sarissa
24
The palace of ____ on Crete shows evidence of archaic Greek frescoes & shrines to their gods.
Syracuse
Knossos
Parthenon
Sparta
25
The first battle of Persian War I took place at _____.
Sparta
Chaeronea
Marathon
Thermopylae
26
Alexander and his armies made it as far east as the _____ River before turning back for home.
Amazon
Indus
Mississippi
Granicus