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ACADEMIC WORLD HISTORY: GREECE.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. In 490 BC the Persians were defeated by the Athenians at a plain northeast of their city-state and
the Greek peninsula was safe for another ten years. This battle was called
A. Salamis
B. Marathon
C. Thermopylae
D. Plataea.
2. In 480 BC the Persians were defeated by the Athenians in a naval battle off the port city of Piraeus
And allowed the Athenians to dominate the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. This battle was
A. Thermopylae
B. Marathon
C. Plataea
D. Salamis.
3. What was the name of the League formed with Athens as the leader to safeguard the Aegean
Sea from the return of the Persians? Its treasury was located on an island.
A. Samosian
B. Delian
C. Cretan
D. Sicialian.
4. Who believed that the development of life and the spirit of the soul is more important than gaining
Material riches? Brotherhood of mankind; service to others and one world government.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Zeno
Epicurus
Diogenes
Skeptics
5. Which group of people believed that it is not possible to know anything outside the five senses
and since no two people agree on what is pleasurable or not pleasurable; then no one knows what
is the truth.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Zeno
Epicurus
Diogenes
Skeptics
9.
6. Who believes that man should have both bodily and mental pleasures in his lifetime, especially
Intellectually? "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow may bring pain and death."
A.
B.
C.
D.
Zeno
Epicurus
Diogenes
Skeptics.
7. What was the name of the law which could banish a man for ten years from Athens if the
assemblies voted him dangerous to Athens?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Law of banishment
Ostracism
Law of Expulsion
Decitizenship.
8. The battle in which the king of Sparta was killed and his men destroyed in defending a mountain
pass against the Persians was
A.
B.
C.
D.
Plataea
Thermopylae
Marathon
Salamis
9. What was the Greek city-state which revolted against the Persians and started the Persian War?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Thebes
Mycenae
Corinth
Miletus
10. What the city-state in the western Mediterranean Sea which defeated Athens in 415 BC and helped
to destroy the Athenian Empire?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Carthage
Syracuse
Tiber
Miletus.
11. The naval defeat of Athens by Persia and Corinth which ended the Athenian Empire in 4504 BC
took place at
A.
B.
C.
D.
Dardanelles
Hellespont
Rhodes
Bosphorus.
12 All of the following encouraged Greek unity except
A.
B.
C.
D.
common language
common religion
geography of Greece
belief in common ancestor.
13.The age of Pericles was a period of great power, prosperity and intellectual accomplishment for
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sparta
Crete
Athens
Persia.
14. The writer whose works included two great epics the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" and dealt with the Age
Of Kings was:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Zeus
Thucydides
Pericles
Homer.
15. Philip of Macedon organized part of his infantry into tightly spaced rows of soldiers equipped
with lances. This formation was called:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Company
Legion
Column
Phalanx.
16. The great Greek orator who tried to warn the people of the danger posed by Philip of Macedon was:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Antiochus
Aristotle
Socrates
Demosthenes.
17. Philosophers who taught that people should scorn pleasure, wealth and social position were called:
A.
B.
C.
D.
Pythagorians
Epicureans
Stoics
Cynics.
18.To be Hellenized essentially meant to:
A.
B.
C.
C.
to adopt Greek customs and ways of life
swear loyalty to Alexander
join Philip in fighting the Greeks
Become a citizen of Greece.
MATCHING A
Minoan (Crete)
19.
20.
21.
Mycenaean
A. Brought ideas of love of beauty and free spirit. First of Greek speaking peoples.
B. Introduced dyeing in purple, metal work, and coin making.
22.
23.
Dorian
C. Famous for frescoes, jewelry, farming and bronze tools.
D. Developed a written language called linear A and linear B.
24.
25.
E. Had the beautiful capitol city of Knossos.
AA Defeated the Mycenaeans and forced many into Aegean islands and Asia Minor.
BB Captured the Aegean trade when a earthquake destroyed the island of Crete.
MATCHING B
26. Democracy
27. Aristocracy
28. Tyrant
29. Direct Democracy
30. Agora
A. Greek word for the market place.
B. Government in which all citizens participate in decisions making
C. Idea that people could and should rule themselves rather than be ruled
by others.
D. Ruler who seizes power by force; appointed by Athens to solve
problems.
E. Rule by the best; privileged ruling class; land and blood.
MATCHING C
31. Helot
32. Metic
33. Oracle
34. Cholera
35. Cosmopolitan
A. Non-Athenian who were free but could not own land or take part in
government
B. Type of city made up of many different nationalities.
C. Agricultural laborer who was a member of the lowest class in Sparta.
D. Disease that probably killed Alexander.
E. Priest or Priestess who could foretell the future in Greek society.
MATCHING D
36. Hippocrates
37. Leonidas
38. Xerxes
39. Galen
40. Draco
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Wrote and drew the "Book of Anatomy."
Recognize as establishing a oath of doctor patient privilege.
Very strict code of laws for Athens.
King of Sparta who died defending a mountain against the Persians.
Persian King who led invasion of the Greek Peninsula in 480 BC and was
defeated by the Athenians.
MATCHING E
41. Neighbors
42. Ephors
43. Council of Elders
44. Cavalry
45. Plutocracy
A.
B.
C.
D.
Twenty-eight men of Sparta who made rules for the state.
Government run by the wealthy men of Athens.
Freemen of Sparta who manufactured all goods citizen-soldiers need.
Five most powerful in Sparta who control the kings and legislators.
E. mounted fighters who are trained to fight in combat.
MATCHING F
46. Antigonus
47. Ptolemy
48. Solon
49. Cleisthenes
50. Myron
True = A.
A. Law giver: no prison for debt; court of appeals; limited amount of land.
B. Received Macedon after Alexander died.
C. Sculptor who made the "Discus Thrower"
D. Received Egypt after Alexander died; dynasty till Cleopatra died.
E. set up new demes and the Council of 500.
False = B
51. The gods of Greece had power over human affairs.
52. All city-states had the same ideas of law and order.
53. The sculpture of Athens gave movement and reality to the human form.
54. Women often went to athletic contests and plays.
55. Philip did not thing that the Greek culture was of any value and did not want his son contaminated
by it.
56. Athenian democracy included slavery.
57. Athenian women had political and social rights equal to those of men.
58. Spartan landlords could when the population got to large kill off some of their agricultural workers.
59. What was the war in which Athens was defeated by Corinth, Sparta and Persia in 404 BC?
60. Who was the farther and ruler of all gods in Greece?
61. What kind of poetry relates to group or whole community experience? Pindar wrote on the Persian
War?
62. What kind of poetry deals with short songs that treat their subject in a personal way and were
Accompanied by a Lyre? Sappho wrote about nature, love and women.
63. Who is the father of Greek tragedy writers? He added a plot, scenery and costumes. He wrote
plays "Persians" and "Agamemnon".
64. Who is the greatest of the Greek tragedy writers? He added dialogue and suspense. He wrote
"Oedipus Rex" and "Antigone".
65. Who wrote comedy ridiculing politicians, religion and "show-offs"? He wrote "Birds", "Clouds",
and "Lysistratus".
66. Who was the Greek philosopher who used questions to find the truth? He angered the power
people of Athens with his questions of corruption and ineptness that they accused him of corrupting
the youth of Athens and blasphemy of the Gods. He was condemned to death and drank poison.
67. Who was the king of Macedonia who defeated the Greeks and raised his son, Alexander, as a
Greek?
Answer any one of the following essays.
1. Develop the political history of Athens from the Aristocrats, Plutocrats, Tyrants through Draco,
Solon, Cleisthenes to Pericles' Direct Democracy.
2. Discuss the geography and climate of the Greek peninsula and how it affected them politically,
economically, socially and nationalistically.
3. Discuss the Alexandrine Empire and how he planned to administer and unite it.
4. Discuss the philosophies of Zeno, Epicurus, the Skeptics and the Cynics and how it related to the
decline of the Greek power in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.
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