Deck 2: The Cultural Context of Classical Myth

Question 1

How many people does Greece support today?

A) Seventy million
B) Eleven million
C) Six million
D) Twenty-five million

Answer 1

B

Question 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

Answer 2

B,D

Question 3

What are the two principal groups of Greek islands?

A) The Cylcades
B) The Peloponnese
C) The Tyrrhenians
D) The Sporades

Answer 3

A,D

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 9

Which Greek historian coined the word history, which means "inquiry"?

A) Herodotus
B) Thucydides
C) Homer
D) Aristophanes

Question 10

According to Aristotle, "man is by nature a _______ animal."

A) free
B) political
C) social
D) savage

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 14

Which of the following words signify a stage in a Greek female's development?

A) sophrosynê
B) gynê
C) nymphê
D) korê

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 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

Question 19

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

A) Akkadians
B) Etruscans
C) Hurrians
D) Carthaginians

Question 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

Question 21

This is a representation of a _______.

A) haruspicy
B) gymnasium
C) symposium
D) tropaion