Chapter 07 Multiple Choice Quiz

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. The Parthenon was devoted to which god or goddess?

Hera correct incorrect

Zeus correct incorrect

Aphrodite correct incorrect

Athena correct incorrect

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. Greek tragedies always took place within what time span?

A week correct incorrect

Twelve hours correct incorrect

Twenty-four hours correct incorrect

A month correct incorrect

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. What did Sophocles add to Greek tragedy?

A third actor correct incorrect

A second actor correct incorrect

A chorus correct incorrect

Female performers correct incorrect

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. In 433 BC, despite the Thirty Years' Peace, Athens helped which city-state defeat Corinth?

Megara correct incorrect

Corcyra correct incorrect

Syracuse correct incorrect

Plataea correct incorrect

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. An attack on which city finally ended the peace between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians in 431 BC?

Megara correct incorrect

Corcyra correct incorrect

Syracuse correct incorrect

Plataea correct incorrect

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. The festival of Dionysus included ___ days of performances.

Two correct incorrect

Five correct incorrect

Ten correct incorrect

Twelve correct incorrect

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. This writer not only created the field of history, but was also a skilled raconteur who embedded stories of bizarre cultural practices into his narrative.

Herodotus correct incorrect

Thucydides correct incorrect

Myron correct incorrect

Anaxagoras correct incorrect

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. Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy culminates in

The murder of several children by their mother correct incorrect

The burial of a brother against the will of the king correct incorrect

A self-blinding after a terrible discovery correct incorrect

A decision in a murder trial correct incorrect

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. In Euripides' Medea, Jason's attitude is best described as

Sympathetic about his wife's abandonment of her non-Greek family and traditions correct incorrect

Calculated rationalization about how to improve his standing in the city correct incorrect

Excessive caution in making bold moves correct incorrect

Religious mania correct incorrect

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. The Athenian Agora served as all of the following except a

gathering place for well-born women correct incorrect

meeting place for the exchange of goods correct incorrect

focus for political activities correct incorrect

judicial center correct incorrect