Deck 3: The Aegean and Archaic Greece

Question 1

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 1

D

Question 2

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 2

D

Question 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 3

D

Question 4

The Greek Archaic period lasted from __________ B.C.E.

A) 1100-300
B) 900-720
C) 700-340
D) 800-480
E) 1200-907

Question 5

The Minoan civilization was centered on the city of __________.

A) Crete
B) Thessaly
C) Knossos
D) Solon
E) Thebes

Question 6

The Hellene calendar began on the date of the first __________.

A) Greek War
B) Persian War
C) Olympics
D) Egyptian War
E) Peloponnesian War

Question 7

__________ 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

Question 8

Minoan __________ had running water and elaborate drainage systems.

A) cities
B) villages
C) houses
D) palaces
E) ships

Question 9

The Mycenaean military was the basis of Homer's __________.

A) Odyssey
B) Aeneid
C) Dialogues
D) Tragedies
E) Iliad

Question 10

Minoan civilization was centered on __________.

A) militarism
B) politics
C) trade
D) hunting
E) agriculture

Question 11

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

Question 12

__________ refers to a freestanding sculpture of a nude male youth.

A) Ionic
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Kouros
E) Doric

Question 13

__________ 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

Question 14

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

Question 15

The __________ supplanted the Minoans as rulers of Crete.

A) Spartans
B) Persians
C) Mycenaeans
D) Alexandrians
E) Egyptians

Question 16

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

Question 17

Minoan __________ has yet to be fully deciphered.

A) symbolism
B) religion
C) sculpture
D) pottery
E) writing

Question 18

An example of Mycenaean architecture is the __________ Gate at the Palace of Mycenae.

A) Gods
B) Greek
C) Wolf
D) Lion
E) Giant

Question 19

__________ refers to the basic Greek city-state.

A) Demos
B) Plutos
C) Polis
D) Acropolis
E) Kouros

Question 20

__________ refers to a sculpture of a fully clothed female.

A) Kouroi
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Contrapposto
E) Polis

Question 21

The __________ column on Greek temples probably originated in Egypt two thousand years earlier.

A) decorated
B) pedimented
C) shafted
D) grounded
E) fluted

Question 22

__________ was an important school of pre-Socratic philosophy.

A) Platonism
B) Aristotelianism
C) Scholasticism
D) Materialism
E) Idealism

Question 23

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

Question 24

The Greek equivalent to our musical scale is called a __________.

A) mood
B) tone
C) harmony
D) mode
E) plan

Question 25

The word __________ means "love of wisdom."

A) poetics
B) Socratic
C) atomism
D) philosophy
E) materialism

Question 26

Horizontal bands used in organizing a design are called __________.

A) murals
B) friezes
C) geometric
D) devotionals
E) registers

Question 27

__________ was replaced by iron during the Greek Middle Ages.

Question 28

Much of Greek culture can be seen as __________: original ideas on which later ideas are based.

Question 29

For the Greeks,dance,music,and __________ were inseparably entwined.

A) pleasure
B) distraction
C) bodies
D) daily life
E) drama

Question 30

The festivals of the god __________ gave birth to Greek drama.

Question 31

The Greek doctrine of __________ asserted that music could affect character.

A) Dorian
B) mode
C) ethos
D) philos
E) Pythagoras

Question 32

__________ often had signatures and typically served as funerary and temple art.

Question 33

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

Question 34

The Greek gods were called __________ because they dwelled on Mount Olympus.

Question 35

Hesiod depicted the hard life of an emigrant farmer in his poem __________.

Question 36

Hesiod's most famous work is the __________,which traces the mythological history of the Greek gods.

Question 37

Athenian pottery can be divided into two types: black-figure and __________.

A) white-figure
B) decorative
C) red-figure
D) geometric
E) Gorgon

Question 38

The poet __________ is the source of such fables as that of the tortoise and the hare.

Question 39

The Dipylon Vase originally served as a __________ monument.

Question 40

The Greek polis was owned by the __________.

Question 41

The Greeks referred to cities by the collective name of their citizens.

Question 42

Minoan art tells us that they likely had a cult of a sacred wolf.

Question 43

The Greeks believed the gods invented musical instruments,and Athena played the __________.

Question 44

The heroes of Homer's poems are __________,not individual,real people.

Question 45

The Greek legend of the Minotaur probably stemmed from a Minoan cult of the sacred bull.

Question 46

Were the Greek gods always virtuous?

Question 47

What is the name for the style of Greek temples during the Archaic period?

Question 48

Mycenaeans practice mummification.

Question 49

The Greeks took the Minoans as their model.

Question 50

The religious rituals of ancient Greece centered on __________,from which Greek theatre likely developed.

Question 51

By the end of the Archaic period,Greek city-states no longer included slaves.

Question 52

Scholars call Epic poems that draw their material from legends and oral traditions __________.

Question 53

Minoan architecture employed both circular and rectangular columns.

Question 54

The Greek literary tradition begins with __________,rather than written,works.

Question 55

What were the criteria for being a Greek citizen?

Question 56

Which Greek philosopher argued that mathematics discovers universal constants?

Question 57

The Greek polis was comprised of four distinct sections.

Question 58

The Greeks represented gods in human terms.

Question 59

Achilles and Odysseus were both figures drawn from Mycenaean culture.

Question 60

How was the government of the Greek polis different from a monarchy?

Question 61

Compare and contrast the Minoan and Mycenaean palaces.How do their architecture and design inform us about differences between these two societies?

Question 62

Select a type of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy.Discuss its content,then suggest its possible influence on later or modern society's thinking.

Question 63

Discuss the role of music in Greek society.How did it relate to everyday and religious life? How did it relate to the other arts? How does the Greek conception of music differ from modern conceptions?