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