HIST 101 Quiz 3
Question 1 (2 points)
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The Greeks became literate again during the ninth century BCE
by adopting:
Question 1 options:
1) cuneiform script from the Assyrians.
2) Egyptian hieroglyphics.
3) the
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HIST 101 Quiz 3
Question 1 (2 points)
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The Greeks became literate again during the ninth century BCE
by adopting:
Question 1 options:
1) cuneiform script from the Assyrians.
2) Egyptian hieroglyphics.
3) the Phoenician alphabet.
4) the Hebrew alphabet.
Question 2 (2 points)
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In Athens, women and slaves were completely excluded from
political life.
Question 2 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 3 (2 points)
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Since every polis needed hoplites,
Question 3 options:1) production increased dramatically.
2) more athletic contests and public spectacles were required.
3) poleis were forced to grant more political power to them.
4) farmers suffered losses at their expense.
Question 4 (2 points)
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The Iliad and the Odyssey:
Question 4 options:
1) are epic poems with no foundation in historical events.
2) provide evidence about early Archaic Greece.
3) were composed in the Classical Period but were based on older, oral sources.
4) are the first examples of epic poetry from the ancient world.
Question 5 (2 points)
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The Greek polis was:
Question 5 options:
1) a political unit centered on a city and including the surrounding lands.
2) a well-armed militia of all adult men aged 21-60.
3) a central marketplace close to the harbor.4) a protected area around the temple.
Question 6 (2 points)
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A Greek aristocrat who seized power and ruled outside the
traditional constitutional framework was called a:
Question 6 options:
1) monarch.
2) demagogue.
3) hoplite.
4) tyrant.
Question 7 (2 points)
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According to Greeks from outside of Sparta, free Spartan women
were much less restricted than women elsewhere in Greece.
Question 7 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 8 (2 points)
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Each year, in order to maintain order, the Spartans did which
of the following?
Question 8 options:1) Declared war on the helots
2) Sacrificed the oldest citizens in a religious ritual
3) Invaded a neighboring polis
4) Destroyed their temples
Question 9 (2 points)
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In the final stages of the Peloponnesian War, Sparta allied with
Persia.
Question 9 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 10 (2 points)
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The Delian League, a maritime union organized to defend the
Aegean against Persia, soon became the ___________ Empire.
Question 10 options:
1) Spartan
2) Egyptian
3) Athenian
4) Miletus
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Unlike other rulers, Cyrus of Persia (559-529 BCE):
Question 11 options:
1) took the Hebrew people into captivity in his capital city.
2) granted self-rule and religious freedom to conquered peoples.
3) granted self-rule to conquered peoples who accepted the Persian religion.
4) lost a great empire to the barbarian tribes of Central Asia.
Question 12 (2 points)
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Which of the following was not an advantage for Athens in the
war with Sparta?
Question 12 options:
1) the best land army in Greece
2) long walls protecting harbor and city
3) naval control of the Aegean
4) wealth and supplies from sea-borne trade
Question 13 (2 points)
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The decisive Greek military victory over the Persians at
Salamis was won by the:Question 13 options:
1) Spartan phalanx.
2) Greek hoplites.
3) Athenian fleet.
4) diplomatic efforts of Themistocles.
Question 14 (2 points)
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During the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 b.c.e.,
Themistocles persuaded his fellow Athenians to:
Question 14 options:
1) rely on the Spartans for their defense.
2) abandon the city of Athens and let the Persians burn it.
3) invade and attack Persian settlements deep within Anatolia.
4) abandon naval defensive schemes and rely on ground-based forces.
Question 15 (2 points)
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In 371 BCE the polis of Thebes defeated the Spartans three
times in open battle.
Question 15 options:
1) True
2) FalseQuestion 16 (2 points)
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The accomplishments of King Darius of Persia included:
Question 16 options:
1) extending Persian rule over Greece and the Aegean.
2) recruiting foreign mercenaries for his armies.
3) capturing the bandits that had terrorized Persepolis.
4) building roads for transport and postal service.
Question 17 (2 points)
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The founding figure of Greek history-writing was
Question 17 options:
1) Herodotus
2) Zeno
3) Plato
4) Socrates
Question 18 (2 points)
Saved___________ wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War that
remains the single most significant account of the war to this
day.
Question 18 options:
1) Plato
2) Thucydides
3) Aristotle
4) Herodotus
Question 19 (2 points)
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Legal power over a woman passed from the father to the
husband, and in cases of divorce it passed back to the father.
Question 19 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 20 (2 points)
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Slaves in ancient Greece could legally be killed, raped, or
maimed by their masters, if they saw fit.
Question 20 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 21 (2 points)Saved
Plato founded a school, __________, in Athens, which remained
in existence until the early Middle Ages.
Question 21 options:
1) the Academy
2) the Labyrinth
3) the Lyceum
4) the Agora
Question 22 (2 points)
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In Plato's work The Republic he wrote of an imaginary polis in
which political leaders were raised from childhood to become
Question 22 options:
1) philosopher- kings.
2) tyrants.
3) hoplites.
4) strategos.
Question 23 (2 points)
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The fundamental concept of Greek thought, as reflected in drama,
literature, and philosophy, was
Question 23 options:1) beauty
2) pleasure
3) humanism
4) equality
Question 24 (2 points)
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According to Stoicism, evil does not exist.
Question 24 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 25 (2 points)
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Cynics advocated:
Question 25 options:
1) conforming to social mores.
2) conservative values associated with civic virtue.
3) active engagement in politics.
4) a combination of asceticism and naturalism.
Question 26 (2 points)
SavedWithin a year of his death, Alexander's empire plunged into
Civil War.
Question 26 options:
1) True
2) False
Question 27 (2 points)
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Alexander the Great founded a great empire that might be
described as a:
Question 27 options:
1) cultural empire.
2) hereditary empire.
3) political empire.
4) scientific empire.
Question 28 (2 points)
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After Alexander seized and looted Persepolis, burning it to the
ground, he:
Question 28 options:
1) executed the Persian King Darius III.
2) established the site as the capital of his empire.
3) arranged for thousands of his Greek and Macedonian officers to marry Persian noblewomen.4) sent his army back to Macedonia.
Question 29 (2 points)
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Macedonian rule in Egypt was characterized by:
Question 29 options:
1) a revival of ancient traditions associated with the pharaohs.
2) social welfare policies designed to improve the lot of the poor.
3) commercial isolation.
4) ethnic assimilation between Greeks and Egyptians.
Question 30 (2 points)
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The most important cultural center in the Hellenistic world
was:
Question 30 options:
1) Jerusalem.
2) Memphis.
3) Alexandria.
4) Athens.
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