Full Test Bank Greece In The Dark And Archaic Ages Ch6

CHAPTER 6 GREECE IN THE DARK AND ARCHAIC AGES (1100–500 BCE)

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 01

1. What is the name given to the southernmost part of mainland Greece?

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a. The Chalcidice

b. Roumeli

c. The Peloponnesus

d. Boeotia

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 02

2. Which of the following are units of Dark Age Greek social organization?

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a. The oikos

b. The genos

c. The apeiron

d. The phratria (or phratry)

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 03

3. The standard form of Greek government as the beginning of the Dark Ages was _______.

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a. anarchy

b. democracy

c. oligarchy

d. monarchy

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 04

4. Which of the following was not characteristic of a polis?

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a. A polis was not the focus of its citizens’ allegiances

b. A polis was wholly independent and often isolated geographically

c. A polis was often centered on a fortified high point called an “acropolis”

d. A polis typically had a centralized city marketplace called an “agora”

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 05

5. Greeks in general, and aristocrats in particular, were expected to demonstrate their _______ in some outward form.

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a. stasis

b. sympoliteia

c. aretē

d. asylia

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 06

6. At the symposium, female company was provided by elegant and sophisticated prostitutes known as _______, or “companions.”

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a. perioikoi

b. oikistai

c. hetairai

d. georgoi

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 07

7. Which of the following was the Greek god associated with wine and ritual madness?

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a. Hermes

b. Dionysus

c. Apollo

d. Hestia

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 08

8. What is the name of the priestess of Apollo who delivers that god’s oracles at Delphi?

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a. The Pythia

b. The Tholos

c. The Boulē

d. The Hyllos

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 09

9. Twelve cities and peoples formed an _______ that could declare a Sacred War to protect the sanctuary and oracle of Apollo at Delphi.

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a. Asylum League

b. Archelaic League

c. Amphictyonic League

d. Apollonian Federation

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 10

10. Which two statements are true about the year 776 BCE?

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a. That year marks the beginning of what historians call the Archaic Age

b. It is the traditional date of the first meeting of the Pan-Hellenic games at Olympia

c. It is the year that saw the first conflict between the Greeks and the Persian Empire

d. It is the year in which Athens first experimented with a democratic form of government

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 11

11. At the beginning of the Archaic Age, the Greeks, thanks to their more maneuverable warships, were able to wrest control of much of Mediterranean trade from which people?

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a. The Phoenicians

b. The Egyptians

c. The Persians

d. The Medes

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 12

12. Greek colonies maintained sentimental ties to their ______, or mother city, even as they were completely independent of that city.

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a. heliopolis

b. philopolis

c. cosmopolis

d. metropolis

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 13

13. Greek infantrymen were known as _______.

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a. skyroi

b. georgoi

c. hoplites

d. peltasts

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 14

14. A government in which rule is exercised by “the few” is known as a(n) _______.

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a. theocracy

b. oligarchy

c. democracy

d. anarchy

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 15

15. The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey are attributed to what figure who may not have been a real person at all?

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a. Hesiod

b. Homer

c. Alcaeus

d. Odysseus

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 16

16. Which of the following are among the standard subjects of Greek lyric poetry?

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a. Heterosexual and homosexual love

b. Warfare as a showcase for excellence and loyalty to the polis

c. The story of the Trojan War and the return of Odysseus

d. The good life, especially wine drinking

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 17

17. _______ of Miletus suggested around 570 BCE that everything comes into existence by the separation of opposites in an infinite original mass.

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a. Socrates

b. Pindar

c. Anaximander

d. Thales

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 18

18. Heraclitus of Ephesus viewed the world as both perpetually in flux and yet governed by an organizing rational force called what?

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a. logos

b. apeiron

c. atomoi

d. philosophia

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 19

19. The breakdown of ancient Greek dialect patterns in this map is particularly relevant to establishing the historical bases of which of the following?

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a. The Lelantine War

b. The emergence of Pan-Hellenic games

c. The rise of tyrants

d. The invasion of the Dorians

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Title: Chapter 06 Question 20

20. The column in the middle here represents which order of Greek architecture?

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a. Doric

b. Ionic

c. Aeolic

d. Corinthian