Deck 5: The Art of Ancient Greece

Question 1

The Classical Greek style can best be described as

A) stylized and organic
B) stylized and idealized
C) figurative and non-representational
D) idealized but non-figurative
E) naturalistic but idealized

Answer 1

E

Question 2

Which of the following was not a famous woman in ancient Greece?

A) Sappho of Lesbos
B) Iaia of Kyzikos
C) Aspasia
D) Artemisia

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The main Greek media used by sculptors were

A) bronze and iron
B) marble and terracotta
C) terracotta and bronze
D) bronze and marble
E) gold and marble

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which best describes Greek government during the Classical period?

A) democracy
B) autocracy
C) tyranny
D) monarchy
E) aristocracy

Question 5

Which of the following is not a Greek god or goddess?

A) Ares
B) Artemis
C) Hestia
D) Poseidon
E) Venus

Question 6

Greek history first becomes well documented around

A)1200 B.C.
B)1000 B.C.
C)900 B.C.
D)800 B.C.
E)450 B.C.

Question 7

Black-figure pottery is from the

A) Geometric period
B) late Classical period
C) Archaic or early Classical
D) Hellenistic period

Question 8

A Greek drinking cup was called a(n)__________.

A) krater
B) amphora
C) lekythos
D) kylix

Question 9

"Know Thyself" was inscribed in stone at

A) Athens
B) Olympia
C) Delphi
D) Delos
E) Eleusis

Question 10

An oracle was a

A) temple
B) shrine
C) altar
D) priest
E) magician

Question 11

A Dipylon vase was

A) an Egyptian treaty marker
B) an Athenian funerary vessel
C) the repository of the law in Chaldea
D) a place of safekeeping during the Olympiads

Question 12

The Greek alphabet came from

A) Egypt
B) Mycenae
C) Crete
D) Phoenicia
E) Syria

Question 13

Which of the following do not belong together?

A) Zeus - thunderbolt
B) Juno - peacock
C) Hephaestos - hearth
D) Neptune - trident
E) Hermes - caduceus

Question 14

Apollo's sacred island was

A) Thera
B) Crete
C) Delphi
D) Delos
E) Atlantis

Question 15

The Pythian Games originated at

A) Delos
B) Olympia
C) Athens
D) Delphi
E) Pylos

Question 16

A Greek two-handled storage jar is known as a(n)__________.

A) hydria
B) kylix
C) krater
D) amphora

Question 17

Which of the following is not a pair?

A) Zeus and Jupiter
B) Dionysos and Bacchus
C) Demeter and Ceres
D) Hades and Hebe
E) Athena and Minerva

Question 18

Which of the following did not take part in the Trojan War?

A) Achilles
B) Ajax
C) Odysseus
D) Sophokles
E) Agamemnon

Question 19

Which of the following do not belong together?

A) hydria - water jar
B) amphora - storage jar
C) krater - flask for pouring oil
D) kylix - drinking cup
E) oenochoe - jug for pouring wine

Question 20

A nude standing figure of a young man is known in Greek art as a(n)___________.

A) kore
B) entasis
C) lapith
D) kouros

Question 21

Which do not belong together?

A) volute, shaft, base, flutes
B) abacus, volute, base, frieze
C) metope, triglyph, abacus, echinus
D) abacus, volute, echinus, metope
E) stylobate, drums, echinus, metope

Question 22

To the Greeks,barbarians were

A) cannibals
B) Persians
C) Egyptians
D) Scythians
E) foreigners

Question 23

The earliest example of the use of contrapposto was in the sculpture of the __________.

A) Kouros from Tenea
B) Kritios Boy
C) Laocoön
D) Perikles

Question 24

Which was not a technique or process used by the Greeks?

A) lost-wax
B) black-figure
C) red-figure
D) white ground
E) mummification

Question 25

Which is not an aspect of Athena?

A) virginity
B) victory
C) fertility
D) war
E) wisdom

Question 26

Which is not a pair?

A) pediment - triangle
B) metope - trapezoid
C) triglyph - vertical
D) shaft - cylinder
E) architrave - rectangle

Question 27

The Riace bronzes were found in

A) Riace
B) a cave
C) the sea
D) a grave
E) a temple

Question 28

The Parthenon metopes represented

A) the battle between Greeks and Trojans
B) the battle between Lapiths and Centaurs
C) the battle between the gods and Titans
D) the battle between Greeks and Amazons
E) all of the choices are correct.

Question 29

Which do not belong together?

A)Exekias - Geometric
B)Myron - Early Classical
C)Polykleitos - Classical
D)Lysippos - Fourth Century B.C.
E)Phidias - Classical

Question 30

What subject was portrayed on the frieze around the Parthenon?

A) Panathenaic Procession
B) Dionysiac Procession
C) Labors of Herakles
D) Battle of Gods and Giants

Question 31

"Classical" means

A) old-fashioned and valuable
B) traditional and of high quality
C) out-of-date and trite
D) traditional and stylized
E) idealized and valuable

Question 32

Which is not part of the Erechtheum?

A) the Ionic Order
B) caryatids
C) Doric columns
D) an irregular plan

Question 33

Contrapposto is

A) a twist at the neck
B) a counter position
C) a twist at the waist
D) stepping forward
E) standing at attention

Question 34

The director of the sculptural programs of the Parthenon was __________.

A) Praxiteles
B) Polykleitos
C) Myron
D) Phidias

Question 35

The general who commissioned the Parthenon was

A) Alkiabiades
B) Sophokles
C) Herodotos
D) Xenophon
E) Perikles

Question 36

Which set is correct?

A)Nike Temple (427 - 424 B.C.)
B)Parthenon (439 - 419 B.C.)
C)Erechtheum (421 - 405 B.C.)
D)Propylaea (480 - 450 B.C.)

Question 37

Which is found in the Parthenon sculptures?

A) contrapposto
B) isocephaly
C) symmetry
D) neither contrapposto, isocephaly, or symmetry
E) contrapposto, isocephaly, and symmetry

Question 38

Which is not part of the Parthenon plan?

A) naos
B) treasury
C) pronaos
D) propylaea
E) peristyle

Question 39

The statue of Athena in the Parthenon naos was made of

A) marble and bronze
B) ivory and bronze
C) ivory and marble
D) gold and marble
E) gold and ivory

Question 40

Which of the following is not predominantly Doric?

A) Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis
B) Parthenon
C) Temple of Poseidon, Paestum
D) Basilica, Paestum

Question 41

Which is not part of Greek theater architecture?

A) orchestra
B) pronaos
C) proscenium
D) skene
E) parodos

Question 42

The Winged Victory was found in

A) Sparta
B) Athens
C) Macedon
D) Samothrace
E) Rhodes

Question 43

Which was a Greek mathematician?

A) Solon
B) Praxiteles
C) Pythagoras
D) Plato
E) Socrates

Question 44

Plato's spokesman in the Dialogues was

A) Perikles
B) Herodotos
C) Sophokles
D) Demosthenes
E) Socrates

Question 45

Which did Alexander the Great not conquer?

A) Egypt
B) Rome
C) Persia
D) Palestine
E) Phoenicia

Question 46

Who was not a Greek tragedian?

A) Aristophanes
B) Sophokles
C) Aeschylus
D) Euripides

Question 47

Herodotos is called

A) the father of poetry
B) the father of theater
C) the father of rhetoric
D) the father of history
E) the father of philosophy

Question 48

Greek theater began

A) inside of temples
B) outside of temples
C) in the hills
D) by the sea
E) around trees

Question 49

A female figure used as a column is known as a

A) caryatid
B) kore
C) kouros
D) atlantid

Question 50

The first known Greek artist to celebrate the female nude was

A) Praxiteles
B) Phidias
C) Perikles
D) Lysippos
E) Exekias

Question 51

The Trojan War took place around

A)800 B.C.
B)1000 B.C.
C)1200 B.C.
D)900 B.C.
E)600 B.C.

Question 52

The priest who warned the Trojans not to bring in the giant wooden horse was

A) Herakles
B) Laocoön
C) killed by snakes
D) Laocoön and killed by snakes

Question 53

Troy was located in

A) East Greece
B) the Cyclades
C) Persia
D) Anatolia
E) Mycenae

Question 54

Alexander the Great was

A) an Athenian
B) a Persian
C) a Pergamene
D) a Macedonian
E) a Mycenaean

Question 55

Which of the following is true?

A) Homer wrote the Laws
B) Plato wrote the Iliad
C) Socrates wrote Dialogues
D) Demosthenes wrote speeches
E) Euripides wrote comedies

Question 56

Who wrote the Republic?

A) Homer
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Perikles
E) Herodotos

Question 57

Demosthenes was

A) a tragedian
B) an orator
C) a historian
D) a poet
E) a sculptor

Question 58

Greek Hellenistic art is

A) realistic
B) in a typical "corkscrew" arrangement
C) more passionate
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 59

Who wrote the Oresteia?

A) Aeschylus
B) Sophokles
C) Euripides
D) Herodotos
E) Plato

Question 60

Which one was not a Greek mathematician?

A) Euclid
B) Archimedes
C) Pythagoras
D) Solon

Question 61

Which one was not a Greek sculptor?

A) Praxiteles
B) Myron
C) Phidias
D) Polykleitos
E) Exekias