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CONTEST CODE: 13
2012 TSJCL AREA C
GREEK HISTORY TEST
1) Who were the Spartiates?
a) full citizens that called themselves equals
b) “Dwellers Around”
c) descendents of those Greeks subjugated by the Dorian Spartans
d) the same as the Perioikoi
2) The earliest writings about geography are attributed to whom?
a) Herodotus
b) Himilco
c) Hecataeus
d) Scylax
3) Which group led by Euthymenes is believed to have sailed around Africa in 600 BC?
a) Carthaginians
b) Phoenicians
c) Caryanda
d) Persians
4) In which areas were the Greeks the most vague in their understanding of geography?
a) whole of the Mediterranean
b) Asia, including Arabia
c) Southern Russia
d) North of the Black Sea
5) Alexander the Great could also be referred to as what?
a) Macedonian King Alexander III
b) Macedonian King Alexander IV
c) Persian King Alexander III
d) Persian King Alexander IV
6) What was the second area that Alexander the Great invaded after founding
Alexandria
a) Mesopotamia
b) Persepolis
c) Egypt
d) Ecbatana
7) How many times had Alexander the Great defeated Darius before his guards killed
him, just before meeting again on the battle field?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
8) Name the earliest literature to survive from the Greek world.
a) histories
b) epics
c) plays
d) poems
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9) The original literature works were most closely related to what?
a) written word
b) performed songs
c) rhetoric
d) modern plays
10) Hesiod’s surviving didactic poetry serves as a catalogue for what?
a) life styles
b) mythology
c) social values
d) religious values
11) Most, or all, surviving Greek tragedies were written in what century?
a) 3rd century BC
b) 4th century BC
c) 5th century BC
d) 6th century BC
12) Athenian civic architecture was exemplified by whose building of the Athenian
Acropolis?
a) Aristophanes
b) Aristotle
c) Euripides
d) Pericles
13) The eastern Greek Region of Ionia had its architecture and sculpture influenced by
whom in the early archaic period?
a) Egypt
b) Near East
c) Far East
d) Asia
14) When was the Middle and Later Archaic Period?
a) 800-700 BC
b) 700-600 BC
c) 600-480 BC
d) 480-400BC
15) Secular architecture and sculpture reached new heights in what era?
a) Late Geometric Period
b) Early Archaic Period
c) Middle and Later Archaic Period
d) Early and High Classical Period
16) The confidence and wealth in the aftermath of victory over Persia is most famously
expressed in what?
a) Temple Aphaia
b) gigantomachy
c) Temple of Zeus
d) Acropolis
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17) The origins of the Greek language may have come from nomadic people living
where?
a) plains of central Asia
b) areas of modern Greece
c) regions of modern central Europe
d) Far East
18) Most scholars believe that Indo-European language came into Greece around what
time?
a) 6000 BC
b) 5000 BC
c) 3000 BC
d) 2000 BC
19) As is the case with modern English, the Greek dialects had more of an effect not as a
barrier to communication but as what?
a) social indicator
b) geographic indicator
c) family indicator
d) intelligence indicator
20) Following the Mycenaean period, the Greeks recovered the art of writing when?
a) Archaic period
b) Bronze Age
c) end of the classical period
d) Geometric Renaissance
21) Where would you find posted laws, elections results and levy lists in a typical Greek
city?
a) deltion
b) agora
c) ostrakon
d) aggareion
22) Who would carry the basic official messages between governments or between
opposing armies on a battlefield?
a) presbeutes
b) kerukes
c) kerukeion
d) skutale
23) When emergency messages had to be sent over land, who carried them?
a) hemerodromoi
b) kerukeion
c) ostraka
d) deltos
24) If a simple flame code were being used by the Greeks, what would a torch being held
steady indicate?
a) approaching enemies
b) camped enemies
c) approaching friends
d) stopped supply line
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25) Greece entered a period known as the “Dark Ages” around what time?
a) 1500 BC
b) 1200 BC
c) 900 BC
d) 600 BC
26) As Greece emerged from the “Dark Ages”, what became more valuable and a source
of conflict due to it being in short supply?
a) literature
b) weapons
c) building supplies
d) farmland
27) As Greece was getting involved in trade again, around the Archaic period, what was
the major impetus?
a) grains
b) building supplies
c) metals
d) farming supplies
28) What group founded Carthage and was a source of influence for the Greeks?
a) Chalcis
b) Phoenicians
c) Corinthians
d) Eretria
29) By the end of the Archaic period, describe the population of Greek colonies compared
to mainland Greece.
a) more than half of total population on the mainland
b) slightly more than half of total population on the mainland
c) roughly equal numbers on mainland compared to colonies
d) more in the colonies than on mainland Greece
30) Around the Archaic Period, the Greeks seemed to view colonization as a means to do
what?
a) reduce tensions at home
b) improve economically
c) gain more foreign goods
d) exploit native labor
31) In an effort to find a place that would give them the best economic opportunities, the
Greeks chose what area?
a) eastern Italy
b) western Italy
c) Sicily
d) North Africa
32) The main avenue of travel and heavy traffic in Ancient Greece was what?
a) foot
b) horse
c) chariot
d) sea
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33) The closest thing to a major Roman highway in Greece was the Via Egnatia which
ran along the northern coast of what?
a) Aegean Sea
b) Adriatic Sea
c) Black Sea
d) Mediterranean
34) The Corinthians created a track called a diolkos. What would the diolkos be called
today?
a) pass
b) port
c) canal
d) levee
35) Which pack animal was least used by the Greeks?
a) oxen
b) mule
c) horse
d) donkey
36) Describe Greeks city placement in relation to bodies of water.
a) usually on the water
b) usually near the water
c) always near the water
d) rarely near the water
37) Solon is credited with doing all of the following except what?
a) abolishing the sixth sharers
b) canceling all citizen debts
c) creating a new social class
d) prohibiting the enslavement of citizens in the future
38) At what age were the Spartan boys sent to live in barracks and undergo training and
instruction?
a) 6-7
b) 7-8
c) 8-9
d) 9-10
39) After the Persian War what was the most prosperous Greek state?
a) Athens
b) Sparta
c) Thrace
d) Scythia
40) In the Classical Era, what was the chief concern of the Athenian authorities?
a) trade
b) money
c) land
d) food
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41) What were the major changes in the wake of the Second Peloponnesian War?
a) political
b) civil
c) military
d) financial
42) What were the dates of the Classical Period?
a) 3000-1100 BC
b) 1000-800 BC
c) 700-480 BC
d) 480-323 BC
43) During the Classical Period what was the maximum distance that a city could afford
to travel for a food supply?
a) 1-2 miles
b) 4-5 miles
c) 7-8 miles
d) 10 -11 miles
44) The fiscal policies of the Classical Period were most concerned with what?
a) the people
b) city safety
c) raising revenue
d) city development
45) In the eighth century BC, which of these was NOT among the settlement abroad?
a) Sicily
b) Southern Italy
c) Northern Aegean
d) Beyond the Bay of Naples
46) The second large movement out of mainland Ancient Greece was due to all of the
factors EXCEPT which one?
a) trade concerns
b) economic problems
c) overpopulation
d) scarcity of land
47) Which area was known to have the best land for farming?
a) Attica
b) Corinth
c) Athens
d) Syracuse
48) The religious centers of Archaic Greece came to resemble modern financial centers
mostly due to donations to the temples from what group?
a) from citizens
b) returning military
c) politicians
d) other countries
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49) What city founded in 721 BC was known for wealth and luxurious way of life?
a) Tarentum
b) Syracuse
c) Athens
d) Sybaris
50) In addition to commoners the ancient Greek states had a social order made up of what
other free population?
a) slaves
b) tyrants
c) aristocrats
d) foreigners
Tie-Breakers
Answer the following questions on numbers 96-100 on your scantron.
96. Who was the first Greek ruler to be called a tyrant?
a. Pheidon of Argos
b. Periander of Corinth
c. Cleisthenes of Sicyon
d. Theagenes of Megara
97. Who was the Athenian playwright that served as a general in the quelling of the revolt
of Samos from the Delian League?
a. Herodotus b. Aeschylus c. Sophocles d. Euripides
98. In 474, Cimon conquered Scyros and recovered the bones of this mythical character:
a. Heracles
b. Sisyphus c. Theseus
d. Pelops
99. Which of the following events did not occur in 395?
a. death of Tissaphernes
b. campaign of Agesilaus in Lydia
c. Thrasybulus seizes Piraeus d. none of the above
100. Who was the mother of Alexander the Great?
a. Olympias b. Methusa
c. Corrina
d. Althaea
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Greek History
2008 Area C
All Questions and answers derived from the World Eras, Volume 6, Classical Greek
Civilization (800-323 BC)
Q1 – pg 148; full citizens that called
themselves equals (A)
Q2 – pg 30; Hecataeus (C)
Q3 – pg 31; Phoenicians (B)
Q4 – pg 34; North of the Black Sea (D)
Q5 – pg 35; Macedonian King
Alexander III (A)
Q6 – pg 35; Mesopotamia (A)
Q7 – pg 35; 3 (C)
Q8 – pg 49; poems [Homeric] (D)
Q9 – pg 49; performed songs (B)
Q10 – pg 49; mythology (B)
Q11 – pg 49; 5th century BC (C)
Q12 – pg 51; Pericles (D)
Q13 – pg 53; Egypt (A)
Q14 – pg 53; 600-480 BC (C)
Q15 – pg 54; middle and later archaic
period (C)
Q16 – pg 54; Acropolis (D)
Q17 – pg 99; plains of central Asia (A)
Q18 – pg 100; 2000 BC (D)
Q19 – pg 101; social indicator (A)
Q20 – pg 103; Geometric Renaissance
(D)
Q21 – pg 104; agora (B)
Q22 – pg 105; kerukes (B)
Q23 – pg 106; hemerodromoi (A)
Q24 – pg 106; approaching friends (C)
Q25 – pg 107; 1200 BC (B)
Q26 – pg 108; farmland (D)
Q27 – pg 108; metals (C)
Q28 – pg 108; Phoenicians (B)
Q29 – pg 109; more on colonies (D)
Q30 – pg 109; reduce tensions (A)
Q31 – pg 109; western Italy (B)
Q32 – pg 113; sea (D)
Q33 – pg 113; Aegean Sea (A)
Q34 – pg 116; canal (C)
Q35 – pg 117; horse (C)
Q36 – pg 118; rarely near the water (D)
Q37 – pg 133, creating a new social
class (C)
Q38 – pg 149; 7-8 (B)
Q39 – pg 137; Athens (A)
Q40 – pg 137; food (D)
Q41 – pg 138, political (A)
Q42 – pg138, 480-323 BC (D)
Q43 – pg 139; 4-5 miles (B)
Q44 – pg 140; raising revenue (C)
Q45 – pg 140; Beyond the Bay of
Naples (D)
Q46 – pg 141; trade concerns (A)
Q47 – pg 142; Corinth (B)
Q48 – pg 143; returning military (B)
Q49 – pg 146; Sybaris (D)
Q50 – pg 147; aristocrats (C)
Tie-breakers
96. a
97. c
98. c
99. c
100. a