Chapter 2 Quizzes

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. The monumental temple design so emblematic of Greek architecture emerged in which century?

Ninth century BC correct incorrect

Eighth century BC correct incorrect

Tenth century BC correct incorrect

Fifth century BC correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not found in the grave shafts at Lefkandi?

Two pairs of horses correct incorrect

The skeleton of a woman with several gold adornments correct incorrect

Two infants, buried alongside two toys in the shape of horses correct incorrect

A man's ashes, preserved in an urn from Cyprus correct incorrect

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. Homer asserts that ______ supports and defends the authority of the office of basileus.

Hera correct incorrect

Ares correct incorrect

Zeus correct incorrect

Cronus correct incorrect

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. The cities of Miletus, Ephesus, and Colophon along the Anatolian coast are significant for what reason?

They are the only three cities that survived the destruction of the Mycenaean kingdoms correct incorrect

They were founded by Phoenician traders and helped to reopen trade routes in the Aegean Sea correct incorrect

They are former regional capitals of the Hittite empire that formed the "Hittite triad" in the eleventh century BC correct incorrect

They are examples of early settlements founded by Greeks who left the mainland correct incorrect

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. Which Olympian goddess shuns contact with men and lives in the wilderness, where she both hunts and protects wild animals?

Athena correct incorrect

Demeter correct incorrect

Hestia correct incorrect

Artemis correct incorrect

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. The ______ is the ancestral plot of farmland that typically served as the main economic resource for an Iron Age Greek family.

hetairos correct incorrect

kleros correct incorrect

agora correct incorrect

hedna correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the three parts that comprise a 'government' in Homeric society?

A council correct incorrect

A draft board correct incorrect

An assembly correct incorrect

A law court correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the ways that many Greeks in the eighth century BC began to express their connection to their heroic past?

All priests gave up their birth name and took up the generic name of Calchas, after the prophet in Homer's Iliad correct incorrect

Old and long-neglected Mycenaean tombs began to receive votive offerings correct incorrect

Special shrines to legendary Mycenaean figures were erected correct incorrect

Wealthy Greeks began to bury their dead in the style of warriors correct incorrect

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. The major ______ sanctuaries and festivals attracted not just locals, but people from all over the Greek world.

Olympian correct incorrect

Demotic correct incorrect

Ecumenical correct incorrect

Panhellenic correct incorrect

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. In the second half of the eighth century BC, the Greeks linked up with the trading post at Al Mina, and established new centers of trade such as Pithecusae; in doing so, they were following the earlier example of which seafaring people?

The Celts correct incorrect

The Sicilians correct incorrect

The Phoenicians correct incorrect

The Hittites correct incorrect

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. Excavations at the village of ______ in the southwestern Peloponnesus have revealed an Iron Age "village chieftain's house" that is modest in size, and not that different from the homes of the surrounding community.

Nichoria correct incorrect

Lefkandi correct incorrect

Pylos correct incorrect

Messenia correct incorrect

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. The encounter between Diomedes and Glaucus in Homer's Iliad is an illustration of the power of what Greek social institution?

Xenia correct incorrect

Respect for the authority of one's elders correct incorrect

Kleos aphthiton correct incorrect

The laws of the demos correct incorrect

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. According to mythological tradition, what sparked the Trojan War?

Agamemnon's humiliation at the hands of Priam, king of Troy correct incorrect

Paris' abduction of Helen, Menelaus' wife, from Sparta correct incorrect

Paris' butchering of Menelaus, Agamemnon's brother, in his own home correct incorrect

Helen's affair with Agamemnon, which causes her to flee to Troy and seduce Paris correct incorrect

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. The Greeks borrowed the letters for their alphabet from the ______ alphabet.

Etruscan correct incorrect

Syrian correct incorrect

Hurrian correct incorrect

Phoenician correct incorrect

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. Which of the following, as we can infer from the Homeric epics, was the smallest unit of Early Iron Age society?

The oikos correct incorrect

The demos correct incorrect

The kleros correct incorrect

The polis correct incorrect

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. The evidence suggests that between 1200 and 1000 BC Greece experienced a surprising population resurgence following the destruction of the Mycenaean kingdoms.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. In Hesiod's Theogony, the Olympian gods first create the universe, and then create the first men and women.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Modern comparative studies of oral traditions have demonstrated that bards can compose long, complex poems in performance, much as Homeric bards did.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. By the Early Iron Age, socioeconomic divisions had created clear distinctions between an elite group of wealthy landowners and the common mass of small landholders.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Mass literacy was achieved in ancient Greece strikingly soon after the emergence of the Greek alphabet.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect