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Classics 110 – Summer 2015 Second Mid-Term – 5 August Name:________________________________________________________ Student ID # __________________________________________________ Score: ________ Below are fifty questions, either multiple choice or short answer. For the multiple choice questions, choose the answer that you feel is correct, or most correct, and indicate your selection by circling the corresponding letter. For the short answer questions write your answer on the line below. Please initial the top right-hand corner of every page. 1. In Greek history, the period from ca 1100 to 776 BC is referred to as…? A. The Age of Reason B. The Dark Ages C. The Archaic Period D. the Classical Period 2. The period from 479 to 323 BC is referred to as…? A. The Age of Reason B. The Dark Ages C. The Archaic Period D. the Classical Period 3. The Greek word polis refers to…? A. The Greek people C. Athens B. A City State D. Philosophy 4. According to your reading from Thucydides, what contributed to the early weakness of the Greeks? A. A lack of common action B. A lack of food C. A lack of land D. The Persians 5. ‘Greece’ and ‘Greeks’ are words that come to English through Latin. What do the Greeks call themselves? A. Hellenes B. Mycenaeans C. Ionians D. Heraclidae 6. According to Herodotus, the people living in Greece before the arrival of the Hellenes were the… A. Aborigines B. Minoans C. Pelasgians D. Persians 7. What is the Greek name for a hilltop fortification at the centre of a city? A. Acropolis B. Citadel C. Academy D. Pomerium 2 8. A Greek citizen soldier, armed with the large round shield, helmet, breastplate, thrusting spear and sword is called… A. Militia B. Hoplite C. Spearman D. Infantry 9. A large group of these soldiers, arranged in battle formation, is called a… A. Regiment B. Militia C. Phalanx D. Troop 10. The Greek word demos refers to… A. Philosophy C. The people B. Warfare D. Athens 11. The consolidation of several small towns into one metropolis is called… A. Synoicism B. Demos C. Hegemony D. Isonomia 12. What is one of the factors that caused the Greek city states to send out colonies? A. Climatic change B. Overpopulation C. A and B D. The Perisans 13. What does the Greek word Metropolis mean? A. Mother City B. Citizen soldier C. War D. Colony 14. Which one of the Seven Sages was asked to reform the Athenian constitution in 592? A. Pisistratus B. Pericles C. Solon D. Dracon 15. What was the name of the assembly of the people? A. The Demotic B. The Ecclesia C. The Areopagus D. The Boule 16. What is the Greek word for ‘equality under the law’? A. Isonomia B. Ecclesia C. Polis D. Hegemony 17. Who is said to have predicted, or explained, the solar eclipse of 28 May 585 BC? A. the Seven Sages B. Solon of Athens C. Thales of Miletus D. Pythagoras of Samos 18. Which of the Seven Sages developed the Five Theorems of Elementary Geometry? A. Thales B. Anaximander C. Anaximenes D. Protagoras 3 19. Which was the first of the Pre-Socratics to claim that the Earth was a ball floating in space? A. Thales B. Anaximander C. Anaximenes D. Pythagoras 20. Which of the Pre-Socratics came up with the Golden Ration of 1 to 1.618 A. Thales B. Anaximander C. Anaximenes D. Pythagoras 21. The fundamental element of the universe, according to the Pre-Socratics, is… A. Arche B. Aether C. Water D. Hydrogen 22. Who said, “Man is the measure of all things”? A. Pythagoras B. Anaximander C. Anaximenes D. Protagoras 23. The reforms of Solon included… A. A written law code C. The jury courts B. Cancellation of debt D. All of the above 24. What was the name of the Athenian who is remembered as the founder of democracy? A. Pisistratus B. Cleisthenes C. Solon D. Dracon 25. According to Aristotle, a citizen in a democracy is defined by… A. The right to vote B. Participation C. The ability to bear arms D. Where he lives 26. After the reforms of Solon, Athens fell under a tyrant. What was his name? A. Cleisthenes B. Pisistratus C. Pericles D. Herodotus 27. What other Greek city state was duped into helping the Athenians launch the democratic reforms? A. Thebes B. Sparta C. Corinth D. Argos 28. What did the Sophists teach? A. The dissoi logoi C. Moral Philosophy B. Mathematics D. Music 29. The only victory the Greeks won in the Ionian revolt was the sack of the outer city at Sardis, and the destruction of the temple of…? A. Athena B. Apollo C. Cybele D. Cyrus 4 30. In 490 BC Darius sent an invasion force to punish Athens for her participation in the Ionian Revolt. That force was defeated at the Battle of… A. The Stadium B. Marathon C. Thermopylae D. Athens 31. Darius died in 486 BC and was succeeded by Xerxes. In what year was Xerxes finally able to invade Greece? A. 499 B. 490 C. 480 D. 460 32. What was the name of the Spartan king who died defending the pass at Thermopylae? A. Cleisthenes B. Leonidas C. Cleomenes D. Cyrus 33. Who came to dominate Athens by 450 BC, and is remembered for his Funeral Oration? A. Solon B. Herodotus C. Pericles D. Sophocles 34. What was the name of the principle temple on the Athenian Acropolis? A. The Paladium B. The Parthenon C. The Perikope D. The Pomerium 35. What was the name of the Goddess the temple was dedicated to? A. Athena B. Poseidon C. Zeus D. Apollo 36. The main temple on the Athenian acropolis was built in the… A. Corinthian Style B. Persian Style C. Ionian Style D. Doric Style 37. The much smaller temple of _____ overlooks the entrance to the Acropolis. A. Zeus B. Apollo C. Nike D. Aphrodite 38. The first of the great Greek playwrights was… A. Aeschylus B. Sophocles C. Euripides D. Lysimachus 39. Which one of them wrote Oedipus Rex? A. Aeschylus C. Euripides B. Sophocles D. Lysimachus 40. Who said, “we are the school of all Greece”? A. Socrates B. Pericles C. Herodotus D. Plato 5 41. Socrates said… A. Man is the measure of all things C. The unexamined life is not worth living 42. When did Socrates die? A. 404 BC C. 386 B. Nothing in excess D. We will need no Homer… B. 399 D. 323 43. What was the name of the school that Plato founded in 386 BC? A. The Academy B. The Orpheum C. The Lyceum D. The Gymnasium 44. Who was Plato’s most famous student? A. Herodotus B. Aristotle C. Pythagoras D. Pericles 45. Who was the ‘Father of History’? A. Thucydides C. Aeschylus B. Herodotus D. Aristophanes 46. The Greek word historia originally meant… A. A story about the past B. An enquiry C. A test D. Myth 47. Who wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War? A. Thucydides B. Herodotus C. Aeschylus D. Aristophanes You each get 6% for showing up.
