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Multiple Choice
1. __________ refers to the basic Greek city-state.
A) Demos
B) Plutos
C) Polis
D) Acropolis
E) Kouros
Answer: C
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2. __________ means the “high city,” and referred to the elevated place in the center of the city
occupied by the temples of the gods.
A) Plutos
B) Aristos
C) Kouros
D) Hellenes
E) Acropolis
Answer: E
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3. __________ is a style of vase painting that made use of bold, simple, linear designs.
A) Archaic
B) Kouros
C) Classical
D) Geometric
E) Kore
Answer: D
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4. In three-dimension art, the __________ style consisted of figures that exhibit a stiff, frontal
pose.
A) kouros
B) geometric
C) contrapposto
D) Doric
E) archaic
Answer: E
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5. __________ refers to a freestanding sculpture of a nude male youth.
A) Ionic
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Kouros
E) Doric
Answer: D
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6. __________ refers to a sculpture of a fully clothed female.
A) Kouroi
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Contrapposto
E) Polis
Answer: C
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7. __________ refers to the arrangement of body parts in sculpture so that the weight-bearing
leg is apart from the free leg, thereby shifting the hip/shoulder axis.
A) Kore
B) Kouroi
C) Doric
D) Polis
E) Contrapposto
Answer: E
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8. The __________ order refers to a style of architecture employing columns capped by heavy
lintels and a pedimented roof.
A) platea
B) Ionic
C) trireme
D) Doric
E) Corinthian
Answer: D
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9. The Minoan civilization was centered on the city of __________.
A) Crete
B) Thessaly
C) Knossos
D) Solon
E) Thebes
Answer: C
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10. Minoan __________ has yet to be fully deciphered.
A) symbolism
B) religion
C) sculpture
D) pottery
E) writing
Answer: E
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11. Minoan __________ had running water and elaborate drainage systems.
A) cities
B) villages
C) houses
D) palaces
E) ships
Answer: D
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12. The “Palace of __________” had so many rooms that Greek myth called it the “labyrinth of
the Minotaur.”
A) Minoan
B) Crete
C) Knossos
D) Aegean
E) Minos
Answer: E
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13. Minoan civilization was centered on __________.
A) militarism
B) politics
C) trade
D) hunting
E) agriculture
Answer: C
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14. The __________ supplanted the Minoans as rulers of Crete.
A) Spartans
B) Persians
C) Mycenaeans
D) Alexandrians
E) Egyptians
Answer: C
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15. The Mycenaean military was the basis of Homer’s __________.
A) Odyssey
B) Aeneid
C) Dialogues
D) Tragedies
E) Iliad
Answer: E
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16. The stones used to construct Mycenaean fortresses were so large that the later Greeks called
them __________.
A) Minotauran
B) Cyclopean
C) Zeusian
D) Athenian
E) Mycenaean
Answer: B
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17. An example of Mycenaean architecture is the __________ Gate at the Palace of Mycenae.
A) Gods
B) Greek
C) Wolf
D) Lion
E) Giant
Answer: D
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18. The four centuries between the Mycenaean and Greek civilization are called the Greek
__________.
A) Adolescence
B) Hellenes
C) Historia
D) Middle Ages
E) Hellenistic Age
Answer: D
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19. The Hellene calendar began on the date of the first __________.
A) Greek War
B) Persian War
C) Olympics
D) Egyptian War
E) Peloponnesian War
Answer: C
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20. The Greek Archaic period lasted from __________ B.C.E.
A) 1100-300
B) 900-720
C) 700-340
D) 800-480
E) 1200-907
Answer: D
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21. The word __________ means “love of wisdom.”
A) poetics
B) Socratic
C) atomism
D) philosophy
E) materialism
Answer: D
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22. __________ was an important school of pre-Socratic philosophy.
A) Platonism
B) Aristotelianism
C) Scholasticism
D) Materialism
E) Idealism
Answer: D
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23. Horizontal bands used in organizing a design are called __________.
A) murals
B) friezes
C) geometric
D) devotionals
E) registers
Answer: E
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24. Athenian pottery can be divided into two types: black-figure and __________.
A) white-figure
B) decorative
C) red-figure
D) geometric
E) Gorgon
Answer: C
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25. The __________ column on Greek temples probably originated in Egypt two thousand years
earlier.
A) decorated
B) pedimented
C) shafted
D) grounded
E) fluted
Answer: E
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26. A band of relief elements below the cornice of a Greek temple is called the __________.
A) entablature
B) stylobate
C) frieze
D) capital
E) architrave
Answer: C
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27. The Greek equivalent to our musical scale is called a __________.
A) mood
B) tone
C) harmony
D) mode
E) plan
Answer: D
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28. The Greek doctrine of __________ asserted that music could affect character.
A) Dorian
B) mode
C) ethos
D) philos
E) Pythagoras
Answer: C
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29. For the Greeks, dance, music, and __________ were inseparably entwined.
A) pleasure
B) distraction
C) bodies
D) daily life
E) drama
Answer: E
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30. Sappho is called a __________ because she wrote her poems to be accompanied by a lyre.
A) lyricist
B) lyrist
C) moralist
D) singer
E) ethicist
Answer: B
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Fill in the Blank
31. Hesiod depicted the hard life of an emigrant farmer in his poem __________.
Answer: Works and Days
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32. Hesiod’s most famous work is the __________, which traces the mythological history of the
Greek gods.
Answer: Theogony
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33. The poet __________ is the source of such fables as that of the tortoise and the hare.
Answer: Aesop
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34. Much of Greek culture can be seen as __________: original ideas on which later ideas are
based.
Answer: prototypes
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35. __________ was replaced by iron during the Greek Middle Ages.
Answer: Bronze
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