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Test II Review: Classical Civilization – Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome
Overview: The test will include three sections and they are as follows – Multiple Choice (Knowledge and
Understanding 25 Marks), Visual Deconstruction (Thinking 25 Marks) and a Journal (Communication 25
Marks and Application 25 Marks).
Sample Questions
Section I – Multiple Choice (Knowledge and Understanding 25 Marks)
In this section there will be 25 Multiple Choice questions. Following are the instructions that will appear
on the test and an example question.
Instructions: Select the best answer by blacking out the letter adjacent to the best answer and then
blacking out the same letter on the answer key next to the corresponding question number.
Example:
1. Herodotus and Thucydides differ in that:
a. Most famously, Herodotus wrote of the Persian Wars and Thucydides wrote of the
Peloponnesian Wars
b. The ‘facts’ recorded by Herodotus include more instances of hyperbole and
mythologizing
c. Herodotus is more of a historian and Thucydides more of a geographer
d. All of the above
e. Both a and b
Section II – Visual Deconstruction (Thinking 25 Marks)
Instructions: Carefully view the following visuals and answer the accompanying questions.
Example:
1. Why were the long walls essential to Athenian strategy and survival at the outset of the
Peloponnesian Wars?
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2. In what way could/did this strategy backfire?
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Section III – Journal (Communication 25 Marks and Application 25 Marks)
Note: The journal question will be exactly the same on the test. Research and plan it ahead of time.
Instructions: Write a historical journal from the perspective of one of the following individuals –
a. A Minoan Merchant
b. An Athenian during the Plague of Athens
c. Alcibiades
d. Plato at the Trial of Socrates
e. A Roman during the Early Republic
f. Sulla on Marius
g. Augustus after defeating Antony
h. A Christian in the Early Roman Empire
The journal should be double spaced. It should be about two pages. The journal should include the
following:
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Reference to real places, individuals and events
Use of era specific vocabulary and terminology
Description of experiences and surroundings extrapolated from class lessons and readings on
the respective time period
First person perspective
Realistic emotion, opinions and perspective
Journal Rubric
Below Level 1
0 – 49%
Level 1
50 – 59%
Limited ideas were communicated
with way too many grammatical
and spelling errors.
0
2
3
4
5
7
Below Level 1
0 – 49%
Real places, individuals
and/or events were not
incorporated and
description of emotions,
opinions, perspectives,
surroundings and
experiences were
inadequate.
0 2 3 4 5 7
8
9
Some ideas were
communicated with
many grammatical and
spelling errors.
10 11 12 13 14 15
Level 1
50 – 59%
Real places, individuals
and/or events were
minimally incorporated and
description of emotions,
opinions, perspectives,
surroundings and
experiences were barely
adequate.
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
60 – 69%
70 – 79%
80 – 100%
Communication
Ideas were
Ideas were well
Ideas were eloquently
communicated with
communicated without
communicated, with superior use of
some grammatical
many grammatical and
historical vocabulary.
and spelling errors.
spelling errors.
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Level 2
60 – 69%
Application
Real places, individuals
and/or events were
incorporated and
description of emotions,
opinions, perspectives,
surroundings and
experiences were
adequate.
15
16
17
Level 3
70 – 79%
Level 4
80 – 100%
Real places, individuals
and/or events were well
incorporated and
description of emotions,
opinions, perspectives,
surroundings and
experiences were
detailed.
18
19
20
Real places, individuals and/or
events were excellently
incorporated and description of
emotions, opinions,
perspectives, surroundings and
experiences were rich in detail.
21
22
23
24
25
Overall Review with Topics of Importance
You should have knowledge of the following topics:
1. Phoenicians – Trade, Alphabet
2. Minoans – Palaces and Knossos, frescoes, the Minotaur, Bull Leaping, Linear A, Thera,
Mycenaeans
3. The Late Bronze Age Collapse – Drought, Sea Peoples
4. The Trojan War – Achilles vs. Odysseus, Heinrich Schliemann, Archeology vs. Mythology
5. The Greek Dark Ages – Migration, Colonization, Dorian, Ionian, Writing
6. Geography of Greece – Terrain, Cities
7. Greek Mythology – Gods and Lessons
8. Athens – Assembly, Use of Coins, Cleisthenes, Solon, Draco
9. Sparta – Political System, Militarization, Lycurgus, Helots
10. The Persian Wars – Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, Ionian Revolt, Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis,
Miltiades, Themistocles
11. The Athenian Golden Age – Architecture, Theatre, Pericles
12. The Peloponnesian Wars – Delian League, Pericles, The Plague of Athens, Nicias, Alcibiades,
Syracuse Campaign, Aegospotami
13. Philosophy – Natural Philosophers, Socrates, Trial of Socrates, Plato, The Academy, Aristotle,
Epicurus, Epicureans, Zeno, Stoics, Diogenes, Cynics
14. Alexander the Great – Macedon, Phillip, Siege of Tyre, Gaugamela, India
15. Geography of Rome and Italy
16. Roman Mythology – Founding Myth, Gods, The Roman Ideal
17. The Roman Republic – Patricians, Plebeians, The Senate, The Consuls, The Tribune
18. The Punic Wars – Carthage, Hannibal,
19. From Republic to Empire – Brothers Gracchi, Marius, Sulla, Cicero, Caesar, Augustus, Antony,
Cato
20. The Good News – Jesus Christ, Paul, The Gospels, Conversion
21. The Roman Empire – Julio Claudian Dynasty, Year of Four Emperors, Five Good Emperors
22. The Decline – Commodus, Diocletian, Constantine, The Fall of the Western Empire