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Humanities - Greece, Etruria and Rome Test
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Multiple Choice – circle the complete answer
42) What was the capital of the Minoans?
a) Iraklion b) Akrotiri
c) Thera
d) Knossos
43) Which of these was NOT a major Aegean Greek civilization?
a) Mycenaeans
b) Trojans c) Minoans d) Cycladic
44) Which of these was NOT a group of archaic Greeks?
a) Ionians b) Spartans c) Dorians d) Aeolians
45) Which building had the world’s first plumbing system?
a) Palace of Knossos b) Colosseum c) Baths of Caracalla d) Livia’s Palazzo
46) Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
a) Pindar b) Plato c) Thucydides d) Homer
47) What was the main Greek fighting formation?
a) The Legion b) The Phalanx c) The Turtle d) The Pilon
48) Who did the Greeks adopt the alphabet from?
a) The Phoenicians b) The Egyptians c) The Romans d) The Etruscans
49) Who was Minoan civilization named for?
a) King Minoa b) King Noan c) King Minos d) King Mionataur
50) What is considered the most perfect ancient Greek building according to modern architects?
a) Erechtheion b) Propylaia c) Temple of Athena Nike d) The Parthenon
51) Which building has the best natural acoustics in the world?
a) Colosseum b) Pompey’s Theater c) Theater of Epidauros d) Pantheon
52) Which of these was NOT considered a masterpiece of Hellenistic Art?
a) Venus di Milo b) Laocoon c) Winged Victory d) Farnese Bull
53) Which 2 languages of the ancient world have still not been fully deciphered?
a) Minoan and Etruscan b) Minoan and Linear B c) Etruscan and Byzantine
54) Which artwork is now the symbol of the city of Rome?
a) Augustus Prima Porta b) She-Wolf c) Colosseum d) Pantheon
55) When was the founding of Rome?
a) April 21, 753 BCE b) April 29, 1965 c) March 5, 776 BCE
56) Who founded the city of Rome?
a) Mars and Venus b) Aeneas c) Romulus and Remus d) It was never lost
57) What country did Rome fight against in the Punic Wars?
a) Punicia b) Phoenicia c) Carthage d) Greece
58) What is the masterpiece of Roman Imperial Art?
a) Colosseum b) Ara Pacis c) Altar of Peace d) Pantheon
59) What was the real name for the Colosseum?
a) Caesar’s Forum b) Imperial Forum c) Flavian Amphitheater d) Colosseum
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60) What year did the fall of the Roman Empire in the West occur?
a) 1453 b) 476 c) 776 d) 1816
61) What happened on August 24, 79 CE?
a) Great Fire of Rome b) Mt Vesuvius erupted
c) Pompeii was destroyed d) both b and c
62) Who was the first Roman Emperor?
a) Augustus Caesar b) Julius Caesar c) Diocletian d) Constantine
63) Which of these is NOT a period of Roman history?
a) Imperial b) Monarchial c) Republican d) Democratic
64) What statue was the first monumental nude in history?
a) Kritios Boy b) Female Kore c) Standing Youth (Kouros) d) Aphrodite of Knidos
65) What was the first statue to use contrapposto in its stance?
a) Kritios Boy b) Female Kore c) Standing Youth (Kouros) d) Spear Bearer
66) Which of these was NOT a period of Greek history?
a) Helladic b) Hellenistic c) Classical d) Ionic Age e) Doric Dark Age
Short answers
List 2 characteristics from the following art eras:
67-68 ) Minoan
69-70) Classical Greece
71-72) Hellenistic Greece
73-74) Etruscan Era
75-76) Roman Era
Matching. Place the capital letter in the correct corresponding place
77) 1st triumvirate _____
78) 2nd triumvirate _____
79) 1st Roman Civil War _____
80) 2nd Roman Civil War _____
81) 3rd Roman Civil War _____
82) Greek Gods _____
83) Roman Gods _____
84) pax romana _____
85) veristic _____
86) agora _____
87) acropolis _____
88) faience _____
89) caryatid _____
A) citadel on a hill in Greek city-states
B) female statue that serves as a column
C) Greek public square
D) “general” in Greek, one of 10 leaders in Athens
E) Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Pluto, Venus, Mercury
F) Julius Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus
G) first Christian emperor, legalized Christianity
H) emperor during Great Fire of Rome, persecuted
Christians, killed his own mother and his wife
I) the sickest, most twisted emperor, made his horse
Consul, had incest with his sister
J) Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Aphrodite, Hermes
K) first great Western philosopher
L) “Roman Peace” lasted 200 years from Augustus –
Commodus
M) Octavian Ceasar, Marc Antony, Lepidus
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90) contrapposto _____
91) strategos _____
92) fresco _____
93) Caesar _____
94) Nero _____
95) Augustus _____
96) Alexander _____
97) Pericles _____
98) Socrates _____
99) Caligula _____
100) Constantine _____
N) Sulla v Marius, Sulla wins
O) Octavian v Marc Antony , Octavian wins
P) Caesar v Pompey, Caesar wins
Q) painting on wet plaster upon a wall
R) considered greatest military leader in ancient world,
defeated the Persians, nicknamed ‘the Great’
S) glazed earthenware (pottery)
T) true to natural appearance
U) a stance used by the Greeks to show shifted weight,
comes from the Italian word
V) first Roman emperor, changed his name from
Octavian, began the pax romana
W) chosen dictator for life, he was assassinated on March
15, 44 BCE, member of 1st triumvirate, defeated Gauls
X) Strategos of Athens during the Golden Age, died of
plague
Bonus :
1-3) List 3 Roman innovations
4-6) List 3 names of the imperial forums that could be found in Rome.
Define Bonus :
7) corbelling
8) tetrarchy
Identify bonus:
9) Plato –
10) Aristotle –
11) What is considered the capital of Mycenaean civilization?
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