Test Bank Chapter 2 The Cultural Context Of Classical Myth

Chapter 2: The Cultural Context of Classical Myth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02 - Question 01

1. How many people does Greece support today?

a. Seventy million

b. Eleven million

c. Six million

d. Twenty-five million

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 02

2. The ancient Greeks had access to excellent deposits of which of the following two natural resources?

a. Gold

b. Limestone

c. Copper

d. Clay

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 03

3. What are the two principal groups of Greek islands?

a. The Cylcades

b. The Peloponnese

c. The Tyrrhenians

d. The Sporades

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 04

4. The people later called the Greeks belonged to a cultural and linguistic group known as the _______.

a. Etruscans

b. Balkans

c. Indo-Europeans

d. Semitic peoples

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 05

5. Which ancient script was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952 and proved to be an early form of Greek?

a. Linear A

b. Linear B

c. Achaean

d. Ionic

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 06

6. Later Greeks attributed the destruction of the Mycenaean world to an invasion by Greek-speaking peoples form northwest Greece whom they called the _______.

a. Dorians

b. Achaeans

c. Ionians

d. Boeotians

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 07

7. The Greek alphabet was invented by adapting the writing of which ancient people?

a. The Egyptians

b. The Babylonians

c. The Celts

d. The Phoenicians

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 08

8. Between 650 and 500 BC, many Greek city-states were ruled by strong men known as _______.

a. hoi polloi

b. kakoi

c. tyrants

d. satraps

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 09

9. Which Greek historian coined the word history, which means “inquiry”?

a. Herodotus

b. Thucydides

c. Homer

d. Aristophanes

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 10

10. According to Aristotle, “man is by nature a _______ animal.”

a. free

b. political

c. social

d. savage

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 11

11. We date the start of which period at 323 BC, when Alexander the Great died of fever in Babylon?

a. Byzantine

b. Roman

c. Classical

d. Hellenistic

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 12

12. Between the ages of eighteen and twenty a Greek male was called an _______, “one who had come of age.”

a. andreion

b. ephebe

c. hetaera

d. athlos

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 13

13. Which of the following were among the principal occupations of a Greek woman throughout her life?

a. philosophy

b. spinning wool

c. making cloth

d. making wine

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 14

14. Which of the following words signify a stage in a Greek female’s development?

a. sophrosynê

b. gynê

c. nymphê

d. korê

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 15

15. Slaves made up an estimated _______ of the population of the workforce of classical Athens.

a. three-fifths

b. one half

c. one-tenth

d. one-fourth or one-third

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 16

16. Which of the following statements are true of Greek religion?

a. Priests and priestesses typically came from local families

b. Notions of guilt or sin were unknown

c. The temple was the main place of worship

d. When one wanted to know a god’s will, one went to a seer or oracle

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 17

17. What was the name of the remarkably good-looking man who drowned trying to grasp his own reflection in a spring?

a. Paris

b. Orestes

c. Narcissus

d. Thyestes

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 18

18. At which remote oracle in northwestern Greece did servants of Zeus and Dionê interpret the rustling of the wind in an oak tree?

a. Dodona

b. Delphi

c. Orchomenos

d. Metsovo

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 19

19. North of Rome lived the powerful _______, who, like the Greeks, lived in independent city-states.

a. Akkadians

b. Etruscans

c. Hurrians

d. Carthaginians

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Title: Chapter 02 - Question 20

20. The early period of Rome, when Rome was ruled mainly by the aristocrats in the Senate, is known as the _______.

a. Consulate

b. Principate

c. Empire

d. Republic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 02 - Question 21

21.

This is a representation of a _______.

a. haruspicy

b. gymnasium

c. symposium

d. tropaion