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Greek Life and Literature
TSJCL Area F 2011
1) Pindar and Bacchylides composed what sort of literature?
a. History
b. Elegiac poetry
c. Comedy
2) At what time of year was the great Dionysia held?
a. Fall
b. Winter
c. Spring
d. Tragedy
d. Summer
3) The Oresteia comprises which three plays?
a. Choephoroi, Eumenides, Elektra
b. Agamemnon, Choephoroi, Elektra
c. Agamemnon, Elektra, Eumenides
d. Agamemnon, Choephoroi, Eumenides
4) Oedipus at Colonus was written by
a. Euripides
b. Eumenides
c. Sophocles
d. Aeschylus
5) Which Athenian tragedian imagines a famous sorceress flying away in a chariot
drawn by dragons?
a. Sophocles
b. Eumenides
c. Euripides
d. Aeschylus
6) The Greek word tragedy means
a. Weeper
b. Goat song
c. Swan song
d. New song
7) The Frogs, Acharnians and Lysistrata were works by the comic playwright
a. Aristophanes
b. Cratinus
c. Plato
d. Menander
8) New comedy was best represented by the comic playwright
a. Aristophanes
b. Cratinus
c. Plato
d. Menander
9) Which play by Aeschylus tells of Eteocles and Polyneices fighting over a Greek city?
a. Spartan Disputes
b. Seven against Thebes
c. Philoctetes
d. Antigone
10) In which play by Euripides does a wife volunteer to die for her husband?
a. Antigone
b. Alcestis
c. Agamemnon
d. Antikleia
11) Which early Greek thinker developed a theory that the while universe was made of
water?
a. Plato
b. Anaximander
c. Thales
d.Anaximenes
12) Which Greek philosopher invented a philosophy concerned with ‘arete’?
a. Parmenides
b. Aristotle
c. Plato
d. Socrates
13) Which philosopher was a pupil of Plato?
a. Aristotle
b. Socrates
c. Thales
d. Socrates
14) Which Greek scholar sat up in his bathtub and yelled “Eureka,” when he realized
that an object displaces its own volume of water?
a. Pythagoras
b. Archimedes
c. Euclid
d. Aristarchus
15) The Greek word ‘polis’ refers to
a. a temple
b. a city
c. a wall
16) The servile population of Sparta was called
a. Lakedaimonians b. Perioikoi c. Hellenes
d. a vote
d. Helots
17) A prime means of getting rid of serious political rivals via potsherds was called
a. zelotism b. ostracism
c. oligarchy
d. aristocracy
18) The Olympian Games honored Zeus in the same way as the Pythian games
honored which other deity?
a. Athena
b. Artemis
c. Apollo
d. Aesclepius
19) Corinthian, Archaic and Orientalizing all describe various techniques of which art
form?
a. Frescoes
b. sculpture
c. vase painting
d. portraiture
20) How long was the Greek unit of measure called the stadion?
a. one foot b. twenty feet
c. one hundred feet
d. six hundred feet
21) Laurium was a city in Greece known for its
a. temples
b. wines
c. Roman citizens
22) Paros, Pentelicus and Hymettus were known for their
a. Trees
b. marble
c. olives
d. Silver mines
d. cemeteries
23) What was the main purpose of the area of Athens called Kerameikos?
a. farming
b. worship
c. cemetery
d. athletics
24) In Athens, the Stoa Poikile, the tholos and the bouleuterion could all be found in
which area?
a. The Agora
b. The Kerameikos c. The Acropolis
d. The Pnyx
25) The goddess Demeter was worshipped in particular in which of the following
sanctuaries?
a. Delphi
b. Dodona
c. Eleusis
d. Knossos
26) Which city state’s mothers told their sons to come back from war ‘with their
shield or on it’?
a. Sparta
b. Athens
c. Thebes
d. Evia
27) According to the Iliad, who is Argos?
a. Agamemnon’s dog
b. Menelaos’ dog
c. Odysseus’s dog
d. Achilles’ dog
28) Hesiod’s account of the creation myth is called
a. Works and Days b. Theogony
c. Homeric Hymns
d. Argonautica
29) Which historian wrote an account of his participation in a Greek mercenary army
that tried to help the Persian Cyrus expel his brother from the throne?
a. Thucydides
b. Xenophon
c. Herodotus
d. Plutarch
30) Which Greek doctor is called ‘the father of medicine’ and whose oath to preserve
life is still sworn by doctors today?
a. Hippocrates
b. Galen
c. Strabo
d. Pausanias
31) Which of the seven wonders of the ancient world was located at Olympia
a. Temple of Artemis
b. Colossus c. Statue of Athena d. Statue of Zeus
32) Peplos, chiton and himation all refer to varieties of
a. Columns b. Clothing c. Cheeses
d. Weapons
33) Which of the following was not a famous artist?
a. Lycurgus b. Phidias
c. Praxitiles d. Polykleitos
34) Kottabos was
a. A dice game
b. A kind of woolen traveling cloak
c. A drinking game at a symposium d. An event at the Olympic games
35) In Athens, the high court of appeal for criminal and civil cases was called
a. The Stoa Poikile
b. The Basilica Iulia c. The Areopagus
d. The Acropagus
36) Which of the following is not a famous mountain in Attica?
a. Hymettos
b. Dikte
c. Pentelicus
d. Parnes
37) The pankration was a sport that featured which of the following?
a. Boxing, wrestling, kicking and strangling
b. Swimming, wrestling and relay
c. Boxing, Swimming, wrestling and relay
d. Swimming, wrestling, kicking and strangling
38) Obols, tetradrachmas and drachmas were all varieties of
a. columns b. weapons c. coins
d. jewelry
39) Which of these foods was not known to the ancient Greeks?
a. tomatoes b. olives
c. honey
d. beef
40) The Bouleuterion in Athens was used for
a. A school
b. A vegetable market
council
d. A public voting hall
c. A meeting place for the city
41) Pheistos, Mallia and Kato Zakro are all examples of pre-historic architecture found
on the island of
a. Crete
b. Delos
c. Naxos
d. Ithaka
42) The Doryphorus, a kore and the Melian Aphrodite are all examples of
a. Mosaics
b. Vases
c. Statues
d. frescoes
43) Where would one most likely have found a stylobate?
a. In a school b. In an army camp c. On a temple
44) The Ilissus was
a. A type of traveling cloak
c. The harbor defences at Piraeus
d. On the street
b. The meeting place for veterans
d. The river that ran through Athens
45) The mound marking the burial place of the 192 dead Athenians at Marathon is
known as
a. The soros
b. The soter
c. The simian
d. The mausoleum
46) The archaeological site at Vergina in Macedonia is famous for its
a. royal palaces
b. royal tombs
c. oracles
d. temples
47) The Fox and the Crow or the Hare and the Tortoise are fables told by which Greek
author?
a. Aeschyles
b. Androcles
c. Aesop
d. Antenor
48) The Parthenon in Athens was dedicated to
a. Artemis
b. Poseidon c. Athena
d. Zeus
49) Athenian babies were given their names at the festival of the
a. Panathenaia
b. Floralia
c. Amphidromia
d. Anthesteria
50) In a Greek house, the gynaeceum was the location of
a. The children’s quarters
b. The women’s quarters
quarters
d. The men’s quarters
c. The slaves’
The following questions are tie-breakers. You should complete these questions on
the reverse side of your scantron. They will only be graded in the event of a tie.
51) The Greek equivalent of the forum was known as the
a. Stoa
b. Stadium
c. Agora
d. Areopagus
52) Which Greek scholar became the first to draw a a map of the world?
a. Anaxagoras
b. Anaximander
c. Thales
d. Plato
53) In order to address a Greek sky god a worshipper had to face in which direction?
a. North
b. South
c. East
d. West
54) The front porch of a temple was called the
a. opisthodomus
b. stylobate
c. pronaos
d. peristyle
55) Which of the following was not one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world?
a. Hanging gardens of Babylon
b. the Parthenon
c. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
d.The Pharos of Alexandria
Key to Greek Life and Literature 2011
1) B
2) C
3) D
4) C
5) C
6) B
7) A
8) D
9) B
10) B
11) C
12) D
13) A
14) B
15) B
16) D
17) B
18) C
19) C
20) D
21) D
22) B
23) C
24) A
25) C
26) A
27) C
28) B
29) B
30) A
31) D
32) B
33) A
34) C
35) C
36) B
37) A
38) C
39) A
40) C
41) A
42) C
43) C
44) D
45) A
46) B
47) C
48) C
49) C
50) B
51) C
52) B
53) C
54) C
55) B