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Chapter Four
Directions: Match the terms at left below with the facts at right. Write the letter of the BEST match in
the blank for each term.
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monarchy
a
Alexander the Great’s tutor
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Sparta
b
a small, wealthy elite holds power
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Pythagoras
c
separated medicine from superstition
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Pericles
d
begged for the body of his son
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Aphrodite
e
between modern Greece and Turkey
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oligarchy
f
a hereditary ruler exercises power
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Aristotle
g
a military state
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Aegean
h
offered Paris the love of Helen
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Hippocrates
i
advocate for Athenian democracy
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Priam
j
calculated the relationship between
the sides of a right triangle
Directions: Write the letter of the BEST answer in each blank below.
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Who is the author of the epic poems The Odyssey and The Iliad?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Homer
Pythagoras
Aeneid
Hector
Why does Achilles refuse to fight for Agamemnon?
a)
b)
c)
d)
He has had a vision of his death at Troy.
He believes the war is pointless.
He admires Hector’s bravery.
Agamemnon took Briseis from Achilles.
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Why did Hector’s father beg Achilles for his son’s body?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Which is a characteristic shared by all of the earliest ancient civilizations?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Citizens tended to be wealthy landowners.
Non-citizens in ancient Greece were considered barbarians.
Citizens were required to provide military service.
Only citizens paid taxes.
When a few of Athens’ landowners became wealthier, the aristocracy evolved and became
a)
b)
c)
d)
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They could not agree on a common form of government.
They were cut off from one another by mountains or water.
They were rivals who fought for control of all of Greece.
They had alliances with other civilizations which were in conflict.
Why did the concept of citizenship cause some ancient Greeks to develop a feeling of ownership
of their government?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Anyone who wasn't wealthy was a slave.
Each had an organized religion.
All shared the same coin system.
They spoke the same language.
Why did the Greeks develop many small city-states?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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He wanted to preserve his son’s dignity.
Hector’s wife, Andromache, thought the gods might bring him back to life.
In Greek mythology, a body cannot enter the afterlife if it is not properly cared for.
Hector had to be buried in among his ancestors to enter the afterlife.
an oligarchy
a democracy
a monarchy
an archon
Why was Darius the Great furious at Athens in 499 B.C.?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Athens sank his fleet in the Straits of Salamis.
Athens sent ships to help the Ionians who rebelled against Persian rule.
Athens defeated his army at Marathon.
Athens was a threat to Darius authority in Asia Minor.
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What did Themistocles do to prepare for another Persian attack?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Why was a small Spartan force able to delay the Persian army at Thermopylae?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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The Greeks wanted to protect their main fleet at Sparta.
If the Persian army got off their ships the Greeks would be outnumbered.
The Greek ships were designed for fighting on the open seas.
The Persian ships would struggle to maneuver in the cramped conditions.
What is the name given to the twenty-seven year war between Athens and Sparta?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Their battering rams broke through the hulls of enemy ships.
Triremes were set on fire and aimed at enemy ships.
They launched stone projectiles from catapults on their decks.
They trapped the Persian ships in the narrow Straits of Salamis.
Why did the Greeks want to fight the Persians in the Straits of Salamis?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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The Spartans blocked the port at Thermopylae with burning ships.
The Spartans terrified the Persians with their fighting methods.
The Persians had to make their way through a narrow mountain pass.
The Persian soldiers were poorly equipped and trained.
How did Greek triremes sink enemy ships?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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He made an alliance with Sparta.
He expanded Athens’ system of defensive walls.
He evacuated the people of Athens.
He convinced Athenians to build a fleet of warships.
the Greco-Persian War
the Peloponnesian War
the Thirty Years War
the Punic War
Why did one in four of the people of Athens die during the first phase of the war between
Athens and Sparta?
a)
b)
c)
d)
They died during the disastrous Sicilian Expedition.
They died from a plague.
They died because Sparta burned Athens.
They died of starvation.
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The most important long-term contributions of Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations are
primarily found in the area of
a)
b)
c)
d)
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What was the most important use of the Archimedes screw for ancient civilizations?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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d)
challenging others to examine the meanings of their answers
rule by a benign, wealthy elite
acquiring new knowledge and correcting mistakes
scientific study of nature based upon observation
According to Plato, who should rule an ideal society?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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He thought Athens had lost its wars with Sparta due to incompetent elected leaders.
He thought that common citizens were incapable of using good judgment.
He believed that a democratic government would protect the weak at the expense of
the strong.
He worried that politicians would mislead citizens and create a corrupt government.
Which statement below best describes the Socratic method?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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fastening the hulls of seagoing vessels so that they were watertight
transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches
holding the axels of wheeled vehicles, like chariots and wagons, securely in place
as a part of pulleys used to load and unload ships
Why was Socrates a critic of democracy?
a)
b)
c)
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government and law.
military technology.
religious doctrine.
economic policy.
the wisest philosopher
a monarch
the Diadochi
an oligarchy
Which statement below best restates the idea of Aristotle’s “golden mean”?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Treat others as you would like to be treated.
Greed makes people do terrible things.
Keep to a course between the extremes.
People will try to control others unless government stops them.
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Aristotle’s emphasis on learning through observation led to
a)
b)
c)
d)
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What Athenian concept would change the course of world history?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Hellenism
extremism
democracy
individualism
Who took over Alexander’s Egypt?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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geometry
engineering
democracy
ethnocentrism
What was the name of the hybrid culture that Alexander brought to the newly-conquered
territories of his empire?
a)
b)
c)
d)
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Hellenism
the Renaissance
the creation of the Great Library at Alexandria
the creation of the first universities
Ptolemy
Cleopatra
Seleucus
Julius Caesar
Greek culture was absorbed by what later civilization?
a)
b)
c)
d)
the Iberians
the Holy Roman Empire
the Byzantine Empire
the Romans
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Directions: Write the proper name that belongs on the map for each location listed below.
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MAP
BANK
Sparta
Athens
Babylon
Alexandria
Persepolis
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