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