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A quiz for Prentice Hall World History Chapter 4. #ancientgreece
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1
Who was the leader whose armies burned Athens, but whose fleet sank at Salamis?
Alexander the Great
Pericles
Darius I
Xerxes
2
Who led Macedonia at the Battle of Chaeronea and conquered much of mainland Greece?
Herodotus
Themistocles
Alexander the Great
Philip II
3
Who is called the "Father of History"? He wrote more interestingly than his contemporaries.
Thucydides
Euripides
Herodotus
Socrates
4
Who wrote
The Republic
, which outlined his view of an ideal society led by philosophers?
Socrates
Thucydides
Plato
Pericles
5
Banishing a person from the city-state for a period of ten years is called ______.
Ostracism
Alliance
Assassination
Oligarchy
6
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
7
Which of the following is NOT a manner in which Alexander the Great encouraged assimilation?
He defeated Darius III's armies in battle
He gathered texts from all over his empire to be his museum
He married a Persian woman & encouraged others to as well
He dressed in the Persian style
8
Free residents of a state are called _____.
Citizens
Slaves
Helots
Phalanx
9
Which tyrant created the Council of 500 as part of his democratic reforms to the government?
Cleisthenes
Pericles
Pisistratus
Leonidas
10
The first battle of Persian War I took place at _____.
Chaeronea
Sparta
Thermopylae
Marathon
11
Who was the Greek god of war, who rode around in a battle chariot?
Athena
Nike
Ares
Poseidon
12
What was the alliance of 140 city-states under the leadership of Athens called?
Peloponnesian League
Axis Powers
Delian League
Quadruple Alliance
13
Who told the cyclops that his name was "Noman" before stabbing the giant in the eye?
Ares
Polyphemos
Poseidon
Odysseus
14
Archaic Greeks who founded a civilization on the mainland & fought in the Trojan War were the
Minoans
Olympians
Mycenaeans
Hindus
15
Which of the following styles of Greek capitals is shown in the picture?
Ionic
Corinthian
Egyptian
Doric
16
Alexander and his armies made it as far east as the _____ River before turning back for home.
Indus
Mississippi
Granicus
Amazon
17
Who was the leader of the Persian Empire at the time of Alexander the Great?
Homer
Darius I
Themistocles
Darius III
18
Who was known as the "Gadfly of Athens" for his stinging criticism of corrupt officials?
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Pericles
19
What Sicilian city-state was allied with Sparta and handed Athens a devastating defeat?
Cornell
Naples
Corinth
Syracuse
20
A ___ is a fixed salary paid for service to those who took part in the Assembly under Pericles.
Jury
Stipend
Sarissa
Celery
21
According to Greek mythology, where did many of the Greek gods reside?
Inside each and every one of us
On the Isthmus of Corinth
On top of Mount Olympus
In the Black Sea
22
In his work,
The Republic
, Plato proposed all of the following social classes EXCEPT
Priests
Soldiers
Philosophers
Workers
23
What straits link the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara?
Dardanelles Straits
Strait of Gibraltar
Strait of Magellan
Bosporus Straits
24
What war featured Athens and its allies against Sparta and its allies?
Persian War II
Persian War I
World War I
Peloponnesian War
25
Which government is run by a hereditary, wealthy elite class?
Aristocracy
Democracy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
26
Who was the beautiful queen whose kidnapping sparked the Trojan War of archaic Greek legend?
Hera
Helen
Olympias
Athena
27
Corinth's major geographical advantage was the fact that it was located on _________.
A strait
A mountain
An isthmus
An island
28
What body of water is due east of Greece?
Ionian Sea
Adriatic Sea
Atlantic Ocean
Aegean Sea
29
Thucydides wrote
The History of the Peloponnesian War
, which is considered a _____ source.
Tertiary
Secondary
Persian
Primary
30
What is the Greek word for city-state?
Polis
Ecclesia
Isonomia
Iliad
31
The palace of ____ on Crete shows evidence of archaic Greek frescoes & shrines to their gods.
Syracuse
Sparta
Knossos
Parthenon
32
What subject taught the art of persuasive public speaking in ancient Athenian schools?
History
Rhetoric
Literature
Drama
33
What two epic poems did Homer tell?
The Young and The Restless
The Iliad and The Odyssey
The Good and The Evil
The Polis and The Oligarchy
34
What word refers to a minimum number needed in order to hold a vote?
Ecclesia
Isonomia
Sarissa
Quorum
35
What was the most important cultural city of the Hellenistic world?
Troy, Asia Minor
Alexandria, Egypt
Athens, Greece
Jerusalem, Palestine