How did Themistocles want to confront the Persian invasion under Xerxes?

by evacuating Athens and fighting at sea

Chapter 5: Classical Greece

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1
Who was one of Aristotle's famous students?
Prince Alexander of Macedonia
none of the above
Socrates
Plato
2
Which of the following was not one of Homer's epics?
The Republic
Iliad
Odyssey
3
Definition: peasants forced to stay on the land they worked; Term:
debt slaves
women
polis
helots
4
Which word defines a government in which a small group of nobles rule?
democracy
monarchy
aristocracy
theocracy
5
What caused Sparta to become a military state?
fear of a revolt by helots
the desire to win at the Olympics
the threat of Persian invasion
conflicts with Athens
6
Who created Greek spirit?
Homer
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
7
Which important city did Dr. Shliemann discover?
Troy
Athens
Sparta
Crete
8
Which group's revolt led to the Spartans building up their military?
Messenians
Dorians
Mycenaeans
Athenians
9
What caused the decline of Athens's golden age?
volcanic eruptions
military defeat
corruption
earthquakes
10
Who wrote the first great comedies for the stage?
Euripides
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
11
Greeks built the first (_) in the West.
stadiums
sculptures
arenas
theaters
12
Who wrote what is considered the first work of history?
Herodotus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Thucydides
13
Ephors were a council of (_) elected annually and shared power with the 2 kings of Sparta.
5
3
10
500
14
An example of anthropomorphism is gods displaying (_) characteristics.
immortal
animal
inanimate
human
15
Which work was at the center of Pericles's plan to beautify Athens?
Stadium
Capitol
Parthenon
16
Which of the following was not one of Pericles's goals?
to glorify Athens
to strengthen Athenian democracy
to turn Athens into a monarchy
to hold and strengthen the empire
17
Phalanx referred to a fearsome
ruler
punishment
military formation
beast
18
In Athens, citizens participated (_) in political decision making.
directly
indirectly
19
The first step toward democracy came when a nobleman named (_) took power.
Draco
Pisistratus
Cleisthenes
Solon
20
Which of the following seas does not surround Greece?
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Aegean
Persian
21
Thirty older citizens who proposed laws on which the assembly voted were known as
Council of Thirty
Representatives
Helots
Council of Elders
22
How did Themistocles want to confront the Persian invasion under Xerxes?
by forming phalanxes and attacking at Marathon
by getting support from the rest of the Delian League
by stopping the Persians at Thermopylae
by evacuating Athens and fighting at sea
23
Socrates was sentenced to
death
life in prison
exile
24
Who was one of Socrates's students?
Pisistratus
Aristophanes
Plato
Pericles
25
Who is the god(dess) of wisdom and the protector of Athens?
Athena
Zeus
Hera
Pheidippides
26
In which battle did 300 Spartans make the greatest sacrifice?
Ionia
Thermopylae
Marathon
27
Draco's laws dealt very (_) with criminals, thus, derived the adjective "draconian."
kindly
leniently
harshly
28
Who further limited nobles and gave away land?
Cleisthenes
Pisistratus
Draco
Aristotle
29
Although vastly different, Athens and Sparta joined forces against the
Persians
Messenians
Dorians
Trojans
30
Draco developed a (_) based on the idea that all Athenians were equal under law.
legal code
code of law
draconian law
31
Hubris is excessive
love
hate
guilt
pride
32
What was the first democratic move?
expanding citizenship
abolishing debt slavery
assembly of 500
tyranny
33
The events in Minoan history are depicted in
frescoes
dramas
books
sculptures
34
Which of the following was not one of the two kinds of dramas Greeks wrote? (2 correct answers)
romance
tragedy
comedy
war
35
The marketplace was on a hilltop called the acropolis.
True
False
36
A plain northeast of Athens known as (_) was the site of an important battle during the war.
Ionia
Acropolis
Marathon
Anatolia
37
Herodotus wrote a book on the (_) Wars.
Ionian
Peloponnesian
Persian
Greek
38
Euripides's dramas often
did not please many Greek aristocrats
contained scenes filled with crude humor
were based on the idea of justice
featured strong women
39
(_) was the face that sailed 1000 ships.
Pericles
Helen
Hera
Athena
40
The alliance of several Greek city-states was called the
Ionia League
Marathon League
Delian League
Pheidippides League
41
Who wrote Oresteia, which is based on the family of Agamemnon?
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
42
Which contributed to the golden age of Athens?
the rise of a limited democracy
control of the Delian League
Persian victory at Thermopylae
cooperation with Sparta
43
Spartan men's lives were centered around
education
military training
government
literature and the arts
44
Another word for marketplace is
agora
polis
monarchy
acropolis
45
A government in which few powerful people rule is called a(n)
oligarchy
democracy
theocracy
monarchy
46
From 600 until 371 B.C., (_) had the most powerful army in Greece.
Troy
Sparta
Corinth
Athens
47
Who led Athens during most of the Golden Age?
Pericles
Pisistratus
Pheidippides
48
Who built most of the Parthenon?
Pisistratus
Phidias
Pericles
Cleisthenes
49
Another word for arete is
greatness
excellence
death
pride
50
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Athens
Sparta
none, they signed a truce
51
A serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal is categorized as a
romance
fictional
comedy
tragedy
52
Which of the following was not one of the reasons that direct democracy worked in Athens?
size
education
better politicians
53
During the Peloponnesian War, more than 1/3 of Athenians, including Pericles, die because of
battle wounds
starvation
disease
a devastating fire
54
The period in which Athens experience a growth in intellectual and artistic learning is called
Bronze Age
Golden Age
Growth Age
55
What disaster struck Athens in the second year of the war?
a drought
a famine
a huge fire
a plague
56
How much of Greece is arable?
1/3
1/2
1/4
all of it
57
Instead of a democracy, Sparta built a(n)
oligarchy
aristocracy
military state
education state
58
What was an important feature of Athenian democracy under Pericles?
unified the executive and legislative branches of government
introduced the concept of elected representatives
increased the number of paid officials
decreased the requirements for citizenship
59
Because Greeks could not grow crops very well, they depended on a (_) diet.
vegetarian
mountainous
oceanic
60
Greek sculptors during the golden age wanted to portray ideal beauty, not realism.
False
True
61
Which city-state became the leader of the Delian League?
Sparta
Corinth
Athens
Ionia
62
After trying to destroy Syracuse, (_) was terribly defeated and eventually had to surrender.
Athens
Sparta
63
The greatest historian of the classical age was
Herodotus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Thucydides
64
The idea of representative government also began to take root in some city-states, particularly
Corinth
Sparta
Athens
Troy
65
Which group of philosophers questioned people's unexamined beliefs and ideas about justice?
Protagorists
Socratists
Sophists
Periclists
66
The shift from (_) to (_) in weapon-making allowed armies to be made of even the poor.
gold; iron
iron; bronze
gold; bronze
bronze; iron
67
Definition: foot soldiers; Term:
hoplites
nobles
aristocrats
helots
68
The form of government in which a single ruler, called a king, is in charge is called a
theocracy
monarchy
aristocracy
democracy
69
Thinkers who were determined to find the truth were called
teachers
hoplites
helots
philosophers
70
(_) declared war on (_) after much tension had developed between the two.
Sparta; Corinth
Sparta; Athens
Corinth; Athens
Athens; Sparta
71
The sculptors' values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard of
golden age sculpting
ancient art
Greek art
classical art
72
To strengthen democracy, Pericles began to (_) public officials.
pay
hire
kill
fire
73
Athenian girls attended school, only for a shorter time than boys.
True
False
74
The Parthenon was used to store (_) in the 1600s.
food
ammunition
gold
people
75
What is a polis?
marketplace
hilltop
city-state
formal government
76
Who organized citizens based on where they live rather than their wealth?
Cleisthenes
Draco
Solon
Pisistratus
77
Sophocles wrote
Antigone
Medea
Oresteia
Oedipus the King
78
Who was chosen to deliver the message of Persian defeat?
Pheidippides
Pisistratus
Homer
Cleisthenes
79
Spartan women had less freedom than women in other Greek city-states.
True
False
80
How did government in Athens evolve?
from an oligarchy to a monarchy
from an aristocracy to a democracy
from a city-state to an oligarchy
from a monarchy to an aristocracy
81
Who outlawed debt slavery?
Pisistratus
Solon
Cleisthenes
Draco
82
Athenian reformers moved toward (_), or rule by the people.
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
democracy
83
Which type of drama contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor?
fictional
romance
tragedy
comedy
84
Who was the Persian king who vowed to destroy Athens?
Homer
Alexander the Great
Draco
Darius the Great
85
Which city-state in particular was at odds with Athens?
Elis
Thessaly
Corinth
Sparta
86
Who was one of Plato's students and rivals?
Pericles
Sophicles
Socrates
Aristotle
87
Sparta had (_) king(s).
5
2
1
88
Which of the following is another name for modern day Turkey?
Peloponessus
Adriatic
Anatolia
Asia Minor
89
Socrates wanted Greeks to
fight back against Spartan invasion
accept the ideas in The Republic
neglect their gods
question themselves and their character
90
Who was Darius the Great's successor?
Pheidippides
Cleisthenes
Xerxes
Alexander the Great
91
Which characteristic did classical art exhibit during the golden age of Athens?
proportion
anger
tragedy
philosophy
92
What was the capital of the Minoans?
Knossos
Marathon
Athens
Sparta
93
Although Athens and Sparta were distinct enemies, they united against
the Ionians
the Mycenae
the Persians
the Dorians
94
The southern part of Greece is known as the
Sparta
acropolis
Peloponnesus
agora
95
Tyrants were cruel and harsh leaders who overthrew governments.
False
True
96
The straits that lead from the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea are the
Straits of the Adriatic
Straits of Troy
Straits of Gibraltar
Straits of Dardenelles
97
Cleisthenes organized the Council of
Three Hundred
Six Hundred
Five Hundred
Two Hundred
98
Solon organized Athenian citizens into (_) social classes.
2
6
3
4
99
What made up a polis in ancient Greece?
a city and its surrounding countryside
a tribe or clan
a monarchy and an army
a democratic government led by a tyrant
100
The war between Athens and Sparta was called the
Greek War
Aegean War
Gulf War
Peloponnesian War

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100 termsStudBud Administration403 plays

A #history Quiz! that covers #Section2 and #Section3 of #Chapter5 in #PatternsofInteraction (questions 1-82) and a #HistoryLecture (questions 83-100)

Flashcards100 cardsFPractice quizPHost liveL

Questions 100

Answers

1
Who was one of Aristotle's famous students?
Prince Alexander of Macedonia
none of the above
Socrates
Plato
2
Which of the following was not one of Homer's epics?
The Republic
Iliad
Odyssey
3
Definition: peasants forced to stay on the land they worked; Term:
debt slaves
women
polis
helots
4
Which word defines a government in which a small group of nobles rule?
democracy
monarchy
aristocracy
theocracy
5
What caused Sparta to become a military state?
fear of a revolt by helots
the desire to win at the Olympics
the threat of Persian invasion
conflicts with Athens
6
Who created Greek spirit?
Homer
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
7
Which important city did Dr. Shliemann discover?
Troy
Athens
Sparta
Crete
8
Which group's revolt led to the Spartans building up their military?
Messenians
Dorians
Mycenaeans
Athenians
9
What caused the decline of Athens's golden age?
volcanic eruptions
military defeat
corruption
earthquakes
10
Who wrote the first great comedies for the stage?
Euripides
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
11
Greeks built the first (_) in the West.
stadiums
sculptures
arenas
theaters
12
Who wrote what is considered the first work of history?
Herodotus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Thucydides
13
Ephors were a council of (_) elected annually and shared power with the 2 kings of Sparta.
5
3
10
500
14
An example of anthropomorphism is gods displaying (_) characteristics.
immortal
animal
inanimate
human
15
Which work was at the center of Pericles's plan to beautify Athens?
Stadium
Capitol
Parthenon
16
Which of the following was not one of Pericles's goals?
to glorify Athens
to strengthen Athenian democracy
to turn Athens into a monarchy
to hold and strengthen the empire
17
Phalanx referred to a fearsome
ruler
punishment
military formation
beast
18
In Athens, citizens participated (_) in political decision making.
directly
indirectly
19
The first step toward democracy came when a nobleman named (_) took power.
Draco
Pisistratus
Cleisthenes
Solon
20
Which of the following seas does not surround Greece?
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Aegean
Persian
21
Thirty older citizens who proposed laws on which the assembly voted were known as
Council of Thirty
Representatives
Helots
Council of Elders
22
How did Themistocles want to confront the Persian invasion under Xerxes?
by forming phalanxes and attacking at Marathon
by getting support from the rest of the Delian League
by stopping the Persians at Thermopylae
by evacuating Athens and fighting at sea
23
Socrates was sentenced to
death
life in prison
exile
24
Who was one of Socrates's students?
Pisistratus
Aristophanes
Plato
Pericles
25
Who is the god(dess) of wisdom and the protector of Athens?
Athena
Zeus
Hera
Pheidippides
26
In which battle did 300 Spartans make the greatest sacrifice?
Ionia
Thermopylae
Marathon
27
Draco's laws dealt very (_) with criminals, thus, derived the adjective "draconian."
kindly
leniently
harshly
28
Who further limited nobles and gave away land?
Cleisthenes
Pisistratus
Draco
Aristotle
29
Although vastly different, Athens and Sparta joined forces against the
Persians
Messenians
Dorians
Trojans
30
Draco developed a (_) based on the idea that all Athenians were equal under law.
legal code
code of law
draconian law
31
Hubris is excessive
love
hate
guilt
pride
32
What was the first democratic move?
expanding citizenship
abolishing debt slavery
assembly of 500
tyranny
33
The events in Minoan history are depicted in
frescoes
dramas
books
sculptures
34
Which of the following was not one of the two kinds of dramas Greeks wrote? (2 correct answers)
romance
tragedy
comedy
war
35
The marketplace was on a hilltop called the acropolis.
True
False
36
A plain northeast of Athens known as (_) was the site of an important battle during the war.
Ionia
Acropolis
Marathon
Anatolia
37
Herodotus wrote a book on the (_) Wars.
Ionian
Peloponnesian
Persian
Greek
38
Euripides's dramas often
did not please many Greek aristocrats
contained scenes filled with crude humor
were based on the idea of justice
featured strong women
39
(_) was the face that sailed 1000 ships.
Pericles
Helen
Hera
Athena
40
The alliance of several Greek city-states was called the
Ionia League
Marathon League
Delian League
Pheidippides League
41
Who wrote Oresteia, which is based on the family of Agamemnon?
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
42
Which contributed to the golden age of Athens?
the rise of a limited democracy
control of the Delian League
Persian victory at Thermopylae
cooperation with Sparta
43
Spartan men's lives were centered around
education
military training
government
literature and the arts
44
Another word for marketplace is
agora
polis
monarchy
acropolis
45
A government in which few powerful people rule is called a(n)
oligarchy
democracy
theocracy
monarchy
46
From 600 until 371 B.C., (_) had the most powerful army in Greece.
Troy
Sparta
Corinth
Athens
47
Who led Athens during most of the Golden Age?
Pericles
Pisistratus
Pheidippides
48
Who built most of the Parthenon?
Pisistratus
Phidias
Pericles
Cleisthenes
49
Another word for arete is
greatness
excellence
death
pride
50
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Athens
Sparta
none, they signed a truce
51
A serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal is categorized as a
romance
fictional
comedy
tragedy
52
Which of the following was not one of the reasons that direct democracy worked in Athens?
size
education
better politicians
53
During the Peloponnesian War, more than 1/3 of Athenians, including Pericles, die because of
battle wounds
starvation
disease
a devastating fire
54
The period in which Athens experience a growth in intellectual and artistic learning is called
Bronze Age
Golden Age
Growth Age
55
What disaster struck Athens in the second year of the war?
a drought
a famine
a huge fire
a plague
56
How much of Greece is arable?
1/3
1/2
1/4
all of it
57
Instead of a democracy, Sparta built a(n)
oligarchy
aristocracy
military state
education state
58
What was an important feature of Athenian democracy under Pericles?
unified the executive and legislative branches of government
introduced the concept of elected representatives
increased the number of paid officials
decreased the requirements for citizenship
59
Because Greeks could not grow crops very well, they depended on a (_) diet.
vegetarian
mountainous
oceanic
60
Greek sculptors during the golden age wanted to portray ideal beauty, not realism.
False
True
61
Which city-state became the leader of the Delian League?
Sparta
Corinth
Athens
Ionia
62
After trying to destroy Syracuse, (_) was terribly defeated and eventually had to surrender.
Athens
Sparta
63
The greatest historian of the classical age was
Herodotus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Thucydides
64
The idea of representative government also began to take root in some city-states, particularly
Corinth
Sparta
Athens
Troy
65
Which group of philosophers questioned people's unexamined beliefs and ideas about justice?
Protagorists
Socratists
Sophists
Periclists
66
The shift from (_) to (_) in weapon-making allowed armies to be made of even the poor.
gold; iron
iron; bronze
gold; bronze
bronze; iron
67
Definition: foot soldiers; Term:
hoplites
nobles
aristocrats
helots
68
The form of government in which a single ruler, called a king, is in charge is called a
theocracy
monarchy
aristocracy
democracy
69
Thinkers who were determined to find the truth were called
teachers
hoplites
helots
philosophers
70
(_) declared war on (_) after much tension had developed between the two.
Sparta; Corinth
Sparta; Athens
Corinth; Athens
Athens; Sparta
71
The sculptors' values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard of
golden age sculpting
ancient art
Greek art
classical art
72
To strengthen democracy, Pericles began to (_) public officials.
pay
hire
kill
fire
73
Athenian girls attended school, only for a shorter time than boys.
True
False
74
The Parthenon was used to store (_) in the 1600s.
food
ammunition
gold
people
75
What is a polis?
marketplace
hilltop
city-state
formal government
76
Who organized citizens based on where they live rather than their wealth?
Cleisthenes
Draco
Solon
Pisistratus
77
Sophocles wrote
Antigone
Medea
Oresteia
Oedipus the King
78
Who was chosen to deliver the message of Persian defeat?
Pheidippides
Pisistratus
Homer
Cleisthenes
79
Spartan women had less freedom than women in other Greek city-states.
True
False
80
How did government in Athens evolve?
from an oligarchy to a monarchy
from an aristocracy to a democracy
from a city-state to an oligarchy
from a monarchy to an aristocracy
81
Who outlawed debt slavery?
Pisistratus
Solon
Cleisthenes
Draco
82
Athenian reformers moved toward (_), or rule by the people.
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
democracy
83
Which type of drama contained scenes filled with slapstick situations and crude humor?
fictional
romance
tragedy
comedy
84
Who was the Persian king who vowed to destroy Athens?
Homer
Alexander the Great
Draco
Darius the Great
85
Which city-state in particular was at odds with Athens?
Elis
Thessaly
Corinth
Sparta
86
Who was one of Plato's students and rivals?
Pericles
Sophicles
Socrates
Aristotle
87
Sparta had (_) king(s).
5
2
1
88
Which of the following is another name for modern day Turkey?
Peloponessus
Adriatic
Anatolia
Asia Minor
89
Socrates wanted Greeks to
fight back against Spartan invasion
accept the ideas in The Republic
neglect their gods
question themselves and their character
90
Who was Darius the Great's successor?
Pheidippides
Cleisthenes
Xerxes
Alexander the Great
91
Which characteristic did classical art exhibit during the golden age of Athens?
proportion
anger
tragedy
philosophy
92
What was the capital of the Minoans?
Knossos
Marathon
Athens
Sparta
93
Although Athens and Sparta were distinct enemies, they united against
the Ionians
the Mycenae
the Persians
the Dorians
94
The southern part of Greece is known as the
Sparta
acropolis
Peloponnesus
agora
95
Tyrants were cruel and harsh leaders who overthrew governments.
False
True
96
The straits that lead from the Aegean Sea to the Black Sea are the
Straits of the Adriatic
Straits of Troy
Straits of Gibraltar
Straits of Dardenelles
97
Cleisthenes organized the Council of
Three Hundred
Six Hundred
Five Hundred
Two Hundred
98
Solon organized Athenian citizens into (_) social classes.
2
6
3
4
99
What made up a polis in ancient Greece?
a city and its surrounding countryside
a tribe or clan
a monarchy and an army
a democratic government led by a tyrant
100
The war between Athens and Sparta was called the
Greek War
Aegean War
Gulf War
Peloponnesian War