Chapter 12 Multiple Choice Quiz

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. Who was appointed regent after Alexander's death?

Lysimachus correct incorrect

Antigonus the One-Eyed correct incorrect

Perdiccas correct incorrect

Ptolemy correct incorrect

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. After his attempted invasion of Egypt failed, what happened to Perdiccas?

He returned to Macedon correct incorrect

His officers assassinated him correct incorrect

Ptolemy imprisoned him correct incorrect

He resigned the regency correct incorrect

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. Who ruled Macedon after Olympias' death?

Cassander correct incorrect

Philip III correct incorrect

Roxane correct incorrect

Antigonus the One-Eyed correct incorrect

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. Hellenistic sculpture departed from earlier norms in its emphasis on

Highly idealized figures correct incorrect

Realistic figures correct incorrect

Portraits of the aristocracy correct incorrect

Imagery from classical literature correct incorrect

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. Which god was invented by command of Ptolemy I?

Osiris correct incorrect

Isis correct incorrect

Sarapis correct incorrect

Anubis correct incorrect

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. A Greek city, probably Alexandria on the Oxus, was found by French archaeologists at Ai Khanoum, in modern

Iran correct incorrect

Afghanistan correct incorrect

India correct incorrect

Egypt correct incorrect

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. The Garden was the philosophical school created at Athens in 306 BC by

Zeno correct incorrect

Diogenes correct incorrect

Aristotle correct incorrect

Epicurus correct incorrect

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. The "Pharos," a 300-foot-high tower topped with a beacon fire, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and blazed brightly in the harbor of

Athens correct incorrect

Pylos correct incorrect

Alexandria correct incorrect

Syracuse correct incorrect

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. The Septuagint was

A collection of 70 of the best plays from Athens' Classical period correct incorrect

A list of philosophical maxims that, if obeyed, would lead to the "best life" correct incorrect

A translation of the Jewish scriptures into Greek correct incorrect

A book of recipes, compiled from all over the Hellenistic world correct incorrect

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. The mathematician and librarian Eratosthenes calculated the

circumference of the earth correct incorrect

precise weight of Ptolemy II correct incorrect

number of books that had ever been written by a Greek person correct incorrect

distance from the earth to the sun correct incorrect