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Rule by the few:
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Rule by the few:
Tyranny
Democracy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
2
Fill in the sequence: Stone Age, Bronze Age...
Iron Age
Age of Steel
Neolithic Period
Information Age
3
Rule by the best:
Tyranny
Aristocracy
Polity
Democracy
4
In which region is Sparta located?
Laconia
Attica
Lacedaimonia
Messenia
5
Greek word meaning "contest":
Agoge
Agon
Diolkos
Demos
6
What was the basic political unit after Cleisthenes' reforms?
Council
Tribe
Deme
Village
7
Athens was a democracy from the beginning.
True
False
8
Delphi is a shrine to which god?
Zeus
Poseidon
Hera
Apollo
9
This was the Council of Elders in Sparta:
Gerousia
Areopagus
Ephors
Boule
10
Which of the following characterizes epic poetry? Select all that apply.
Long
Historical
Stock epithets
Narrative
11
Period between 1100 and 800 BC:
Archaic Period
Classical Period
Dark Age
Mycenaean Period
12
Greek colonists lost citizenship in their mother cities.
False
True
13
The tyrant of Athens who instituted a 10% agricultural tax:
Pisistratus
Hipparchus
Hippias
Periander
14
What does the Greek term "agon" mean?
Song
Competition
Poem
Leader
15
In which city did philosophy originate?
Miletus
Delphi
Athens
Mycenae
16
The Greeks adopted and adapted the alphabet from these traders:
Phaeacians
Phoenicians
Persians
Parthians
17
What is so "dark" about the Greek Dark Age? Select all that apply.
Lack of archeological evidence
The Greeks disappear
Stormy weather
No writing
18
This is the central meeting place/marketplace in Athens:
Acropolis
Temple of Apollo
Agora
Attica
19
Which of the following is untrue of the trireme?
Has three banks of oars
Is a transport ship
Carries 30 hoplite marines
Has a ram on its prow
20
How many kings did the Spartans have at any one time?
4
3
1
2
21
These bronze-age Greeks lived in citadels and were ruled by a wanax:
Athenians
Mycenaeans
Minoans
Hellenes
22
Olympia was a sanctuary to which god(s)? Select all that apply.
Zeus
Athena
Apollo
Hera
23
Ephebes were:
Athenian magistrates
Athenians in military training
Spartan magistrates
Spartans in military training
24
Spartan slaves:
Metics
Homoioi
Helots
Perioikoi
25
He said that change is the only constant:
Parmenides
Heraclitus
Pythagoras
Thales
26
Non-Greeks were known by this onomatopoetic term:
Persians
Barbarians
Gentiles
Infidels
27
This is the name of the Spartan secret police:
Agoge
Krypteia
Perioikia
Agon
28
What does "sortition" mean?
Choosing offices by lot (at random)
Choosing offices by force
Choosing offices by appointment
Choosing offices by election
29
He discovered the Minoan civilization:
Heinrich Schliemann
Michael Ventris
Albert Lord
Sir Arthur Evans
30
Which of the following is not a reform of Solon:
Cancelling debts
Ranking citizens by wealth
Abolishing debt slavery
Redistributing land
31
What kind of pottery was Corinth known for? Select all that apply.
Orientalizing
Small jars
Black-figure
Large vessels
32
Which council did Cleisthenes create?
Council of the Areopagus
Council of the 500
Council of Elders
Gerousia
33
Know thyself and tell me the center of the Greek world:
Delphi
Athens
Sparta
Olympia
34
Which Athenian office was determined by election after Cleisthenes' reforms?
Polemarch
Council
Archon
General
35
Magna Graecia was the Greek-speaking region in the south of:
Spain
Asia Minor
Italy
France
36
Which of the following is not a Panhellenic festival?
Isthmian Games
Olympian Games
Pythian Games
Panathenaic Games
37
The Phoenicians established this overseas colony:
Rome
Thera
Carthage
Syracuse
38
The tyrant under which Corinth flourished:
Periander
Solon
Cylon
Pisistratus
39
The Greek-speaking west coast of Asia Minor was known as:
Attica
Laconia
Ionia
Anatolia
40
Which of the following does not characterize the "Greek Miracle"?
Rise of the Polis
Alphabet
Democracy
Trade and Colonization
41
Delphi contained the
omphalos
, a term which means:
Oracle
Tablet
Navel
Temple
42
What is the general term for aristocratic families in Athens?
Homoioi
Eupatrids
Alcmeonids
Metics
43
This is a term for "category of literature":
Genre
Allegory
Epic
Epithet
44
The Athenian Institution of voting to exile a citizen for 10 years
Phalanx
Agon
Ostracism
Areopagus
45
The leading aristocratic family in Athens:
Pisistratids
Alcmeonids
Heraclids
Bacchiads
46
What was the prize for victory in the Olympic Games?
Laurel crown
Olive crown
Celery crown
Pine crown
47
The priestess and oracle of Apollo at Delphi was called:
Sibyl
Helot
Delphia
Pythia
48
This archeologist discovered Troy and Mycenae:
Sir Arthur Evans
Heinrich Schliemann
Michael Ventris
Milman Perry
49
The founder of Athenian democracy:
Solon
Cleisthenes
Pisistratus
Draco
50
This first group of philosophers focused on natural science:
Presocratics
Socratics
Sophists
Platonists
51
Which bronze-age culture wrote with Linear A?
Mycenaean
Minoan
Hellenic
Cycladic
52
Which of the following is not associated with the Phoenicians?
Alphabet
Military
Purple dye
Trade and seafaring
53
Epic poetry was originally sung to the accompaniment of the flute.
False
True
54
Which of the following is true of Croesus? Select all that apply.
He considered himself the happiest person
He was very wealthy
He was a Lydian king
He was a Greek philosopher
55
Argued that change is an illusion:
Heraclitus
Parmenides
Pythagoras
Thales
56
This is the general term for "assembly":
Ekklesia
Boule
Areopagus
Agora
57
The toll road at Corinth for transporting ships across the Isthmus
Diolkos
Trireme
Hoplon
Wanax
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Draco is an Athenian leader famous for his:
Law code
Economic reforms
Tyranny
Political reforms
59
Which of the following is not part of the Mediterranean Triad?
Grapes
Cheese
Grain
Olives
60
Panhellenism means:
Cultural identity of the Greeks
Common to all Greeks
Religious identity of the Greeks
All of the above
61
The citadel in Corinth is known as the:
Acropolis
Acrobat
Acrocorinth
Acrophobia
62
Which Olympic victor attempted tyranny at Athens in 631 BC?
Cypselus
Pisistratus
Cylon
Periander
63
The meter of Homeric poetry:
Dactylic Hexameter
Iambic Hexameter
Iambic Pentameter
Dactylic Pentameter
64
The Greek Miracle inaugurated which period?
Classical Period
Dark Age
Mycenaean Period
Archaic Period
65
A hoplite:
Carries a javelin
Is a rower
Is an archer
Carries a circular shield
66
Government headed by an illegitimate or unelected ruler:
Aristocracy
Democracy
Tyranny
Monarchy
67
This early Greek script used by the Mycenaeans was deciphered by Michael Ventris:
Linear A
Alphabet
Cretan Hieroglyphs
Linear B
68
The father of history:
Thales
Dr. Clay
Herodotus
Cleisthenes
69
The legendary founder of Sparta is:
Theseus
Leonidas
Heracles
Lycurgus
70
What famous maxim was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi?
All things are in flux
Man is a political animal
Know thyself
Love thy neighbor
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Which of the following is the aristocratic institution in a Greek polis?
Magistrates
Law Courts
Council (boule)
Assembly (ekklesia)
72
Chief officers in a Greek polis are known as:
Kings
Ephors
Archons
Magistrates
73
What kind of column is this?
Ionic
Doric
Corinthian
Athenian
74
The region of Athens:
Laconia
Attica
Euboea
Athenia
75
What is the primary city of the Minoans on Crete?
Sparta
Mycenae
Knossos
Thera