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TSJCL AREA C CONVENTION
Greek History Test
Contest code: 13
Choose the best answer. All dates are B.C.
1. The great sculptor, Pheidias, was credited with the following works EXCEPT:
a. Parthenon
b. Olympian Zeus
c. Eleutherion
d. Athena Parthenos
2. Which is the correct order of these battles?
a. Plataea, Mycale, Salamis, Thermopylae
b. Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea, Mycale
c. Thermopylae, Plataea, Salamis, Mycale
d. Plataea, Thermopylae, Mycale, Salamis
3. The giving of “earth and water” was a symbol of:
a. submission
b. hospitality
c. alliance
d. enmity
4. Quarrels over the cities of Corcyra and Potideia were the occasion of (the):
a. Peloponnesian War
b. Philip’s first invasion of Greece
c. Sacred Wars
d. Sicilian Expedition
5. Who are the divine patrons of smiths and potters?
a. Athena and Hephaistos
b. Hephaistos and Prometheus
c. Apollo and Athena
d. Prometheus and Apollo
6. The golden masks found at Mycenae were used to:
a. cover the faces of dead kings
b. decorate the throne room
c. disguise members of the royal family
d. represent the monarchs at religious ceremonies
7. Athens’s first venture into foreign policy was the recovery from Megara of:
a. Sounion
b. Eleusis
c. Peiraeus
d. Salamis
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8. Which Macedonian ruler’s long stay while a youth made him intimately familiar with
Greek politics and military practices?
a. Philip
b. Alexander
c. Amyntas
d. Archelaus
9. What is an apoika?
a. colony
b. summer house
c. exile
d. foreign refuge
10. In the Homeric world, ownership of horses was possible for:
a. nobles
b. farmers
c. traders
d. everyone
11. Public affairs at Athens were run as far as possible by:
a. professionals
b. experts
c. amateurs
d. everyone in the city
12. The literary piece which best presents the Athenian ideal is generally agreed to be:
a. Isocrates’ Panegyric
b. Aeschylus’ Oresteia
c. Pericles’ Funeral Oration
d. Demosthenes’ Philippics
13. Te beginning of the Hellenistic Period is customarily set at:
a. Philip’s accession
b. the end of the Peloponnesian War
c. Demosthenes’ death
d. Alexander’s death
14. Greek education became specialized and professionalized with the advent of the:
a. Epicureans
b. Cynics
c. Stoics
d. Sophists
15. Whose political innovations at Athens featured trittyes, demes, and the Boule?
a. Peisistratus
b. Cleisthenes
c. Pericles
d. Solon
16. Which group did not belong to the Spartan class system?
a. Spartiates
b. Helots
c. Perioeci
d. Thetes
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17. The Greeks of the Classical period divided the human family into:
a. Ionians, Dorians, Aeolians
b. Europeans, Asians, Africans
c. islanders and continentals
d. Hellenes and barbarians
18. Like most statesman of the Athenian democracy, Themistocles in the end was:
a. prosecuted and exiled
b. made archon for life
c. sent out to head a colony
d. housed and fed at public expense
19. In efforts to expand her territory, Sparta was more than once at war with this neighbor:
a. Argos
b. Messene
c. Arcadia
d. Pylos
20. Athens, as an imperial power, supported what kind of governments in her dependent
states?
a. Monarchy
b. Oligarchy
c. Democracy
d. Tyranny
21. What city forms the natural center of Laconia?
a. Olympia
b. Sparta
c. Tegea
d. Messene
22. The name “The Bible of the Greeks” has been assigned to:
a. the Greek New Testament
b. Plato’s writings
c. Athenian Drama
d. the Iliad and the Odyssey
23. Socrates and Isomachus discuss the training of a wife and the management of a
household in Xenophon’s work entitled:
a. Symposium
b. Domestica
c. Economics
d. Memorabilia
24. The Homeric hero, driven by a sense of duty towards himself strives for arete, which
may be translated as:
a. glory
b. victory
c. plunder
d. excellence
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25. Every adult Spartiate was first and foremost a:
a. soldier
b. laborer
c. farmer
d. voter
26. The battle between Alexander and Darius III is rendered in an artistic medium called:
a. mosaic
b. bas-relief
c. fresco
d. lapis lazuli
27. Apollo had two shrines where all might worship. One was at Delphi, the other at:
a. Olympia
b. Dodona
c. Delos
d. Samos
28. The Greek word for self-sufficiency was:
a. autonomia
b. autarkeia
c. kudos
d. paideia
29. The art of speaking and writing with ease and grace, which became prominent in the
fourth century, is known as:
a. propaganda
b. rhetoric
c. oratory
d. bombast
30. What occurred between 431-404 B.C.?
a. Peloponnesian War
b. Pericles’ Supremacy
c. Persian War
d. Socrates’ teaching career
31. Fourth century Greek art became more and more cosmopolitan, that is:
a. free of local and national features
b. abstract
c. interested in emotion
d. small-scale
32. Which form of literature was NOT created and perfected by the Greeks?
a. religious poetry
b. love poetry
c. oratory
d. satire
33. Sparta’s condition of having excellent laws was called:
a. eunomia
b. politeia
c. hygeia
d. autarkeia
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34. The normal daily diet of a lower-class Greek did NOT include:
a. barley-meal
b. wine
c. meat
d. olives
35. The Greeks in the seventh and sixth centuries became more conscious of themselves as
one people because of their:
a. common religion
b. common civilization
c. common language
d. all of the above
36. When Pericles declares that Athens demonstrates how free men ought to live, he says that
Athens is the:
a. model of freedom
b. queen of the Greeks
c. school of Hellas
d. birthplace of democracy
37. Athens’s rise to power was unusual in that it was:
a. spread over a millennium
b. especially violent
c. abrupt and bloody
d. gradual and peaceful
38. The first nation to subdue the Greek cities of the Asiatic coast was:
a. Persia
b. Syria
c. Lydia
d. Schythia
39. Syria, Egypt, and Macedonia were the:
a. allies of Persia against Athens
b. chief divisions of Alexander’s empire
c. allies in a campaign against Persia
d. rivals of Athenian power in the Aegean
40. The language of the Linear B tablets is an early form of:
a. Anatolian
b. Hittite
c. Cretan
d. Greek
41. In what order did the following hold power at Athens?
a. Hippias, Cleisthenes, Solon, Peisistratus
b. Solon, Hippias, Peisistratus, Cleisthenes
c. Peisistratus, Solon, Cleisthenes, Hippias
d. Solon, Peisistratus, Hippias, Cleisthenes
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42. The author of Rhesus also wrote about which of the following?
a. fall of Knossos
b. murder of Agamemnon
c. return of Odysseus
d. Dorian Invasion
43. At the end of the Peloponnesian War, what old foe joined Sparta in eventually defeating
the Athenian fleet?
a. Persia
b. Corinth
c. Argos
d. Phoenicia
44. Which is the correct order of these events?
a. Mycenaean Age, Dorian Invasion, Dark Age, Classical Age
b. Dark Age, Mycenaean Age, Dorian Invasion, Classical Age
c. Dorian Invasion, Dark Age, Mycenaean Age, Classical Age
d. Mycenaean Age, Dorian Invasion, Classical Age, Dark Age
45. Alexander the Great was tutored by this great philosopher:
a. Plato
b. Aristotle
c. Socrates
d. Demosthenes
46. In 483, this Athenian leader convinced the Assembly to use a newly discovered silver
mine to fortify the navy for defense against Aegina and, possibly, Persia.
a. Pericles
b. Cleisthenes
c. Miltiades
d. Themistocles
47. This Greek tragedian also fought at the battles of Marathon and Salamis.
a. Euripides
b. Aeschylus
c. Sophocles
d. Menander
48. Alexander the Great’s last victory before his death was won at
a. Damascus
b. Hyphasis
c. Babylon
d. Gaugemala
49. In 514, Harmodius and Aristogeiton assassinated this Athenian tyrant.
a. Peisistratis
b. Hippocrates
c. Hipparchus
d. Hippias
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50. The Greek who guided the Persians through the mountain path to outflank the Spartans at
Thermopylae.
a. Hydarnes
b. Leontes
c. Ephialtes
d. Clinias
Tiebreakers:
96. The Peloponnesian League was formed by
A. Sparta
B. Corinth
C. Athens
D. Pharsalus
97. This Athenian orator tried to rouse popular sentiment against Phillip II with a
series of speeches.
A. Isocrates
B. Gorgias
C. Lysias
D. Demosthenes
98. To where did the Ionians migrate during the Dorian invasion?
A. Thrace
B. Asia Minor
C. Peloponessus
D. Attica
99. This Persian commander was defeated at
the battle of Plataea.
A. Mardonius
B. Darius
C. Xerxes
D. Cyrus
100. In 463, which island seceded from the Delian League, only to be captured by Athens?
A. Naxos
B. Thasos
C. Delos
D. Lemnos
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