Chapter 3 Quizzes

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. Which of the following Presocratic philosophers rejected the doctrines of Pythagoras and argued that all matter is in flux, famously asserting that you cannot step in the same river twice?

Heraclitus correct incorrect

Parmenides correct incorrect

Xenophanes correct incorrect

Anaximander correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not one of the responsibilities of the oikist, or founder of a new colony?

Leading the settlers out to their new colony correct incorrect

Assigning kleroi to the settlers correct incorrect

Assuming the office of basileus for a period of five years correct incorrect

Establishing the new city's defenses and sanctuaries to the gods correct incorrect

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. The process of the political unification of citizens in the capital and the settlements in the surrounding countryside is known as ______.

amphictyony correct incorrect

panhellenism correct incorrect

synoecism correct incorrect

politokopia correct incorrect

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. What is the name of the vase-painting technique devised by the Corinthians?

Red-figure correct incorrect

Black-figure correct incorrect

Reverse-slip correct incorrect

Low-fired correct incorrect

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. Which sea became almost entirely ringed with Greek colonies in the Archaic and Classical periods?

The Red Sea correct incorrect

The Caspian Sea correct incorrect

The Black Sea correct incorrect

The Baltic Sea correct incorrect

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. As they began to dominate the pottery export market, the Athenians invented a new style of vase-painting known as "______."

high-fired correct incorrect

reverse-slip correct incorrect

red-figure correct incorrect

black-figure correct incorrect

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. Female citizens were denied any formal participation in the affairs of the polis, save for what exception?

Their public role in religious matters correct incorrect

The right to participate in the popular assembly correct incorrect

The right to serve on juries in which the plaintiff or defendant was a woman correct incorrect

The right to bring a lawsuit against another woman correct incorrect

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. Zeus, according to Hesiod, commanded the creation of a "beautiful evil" named ______, who then released plagues and diseases into the world.

Epimethea correct incorrect

Pandora correct incorrect

Medusa correct incorrect

Helen correct incorrect

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. What are the names given to the two main types, or "orders," of Greek temple architecture?

Ionic and Corinthian correct incorrect

Doric and Ionic correct incorrect

Doric and Corinthian correct incorrect

Ionic and Aeolic correct incorrect

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. The pioneers in the colonization of Italy were the ______.

Euboeans correct incorrect

Athenians correct incorrect

Megarians correct incorrect

Phocaeans correct incorrect

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. Which of the following poets styled himself as a soldier of fortune, and wrote some poetry that was so outrageous to the Spartans that they banned the recitation of his verses?

Ibycus correct incorrect

Hipponax correct incorrect

Archilochus correct incorrect

Mimnermus correct incorrect

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. What is the name given to an "association of neighbors," in which several independent poleis unite to maintain and safeguard an important sanctuary of a god?

Systasis correct incorrect

Symmachia correct incorrect

Geitonia correct incorrect

Amphictyony correct incorrect

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. What is the name given to a territory and its people that lacks a central polis, some form of central government, or a formal political union?

Ethnos correct incorrect

Agora correct incorrect

Hoi polloi correct incorrect

Apoikia correct incorrect

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. What is the form and who is the addressee of Hesiod's Works and Days?

A list of important tasks on the family farm, addressed to his son Idomeneus correct incorrect

A sermon, addressed to his brother Perses correct incorrect

A collection of fables, addressed to his son Idomeneus correct incorrect

A eulogy addressed to his father Pinarios correct incorrect

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. The sanctuary of Apollo at ______, where the Pythia gave inspired answers to Greeks and non-Greeks from all over the Mediterranean, was the most famous oracle in antiquity.

Delphi correct incorrect

Cumae correct incorrect

Dodona correct incorrect

Thebes correct incorrect

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. According to our evidence, by the early seventh century, all Greeks were living in city-states.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Sparta established no less than ten overseas colonies, including the important cities of Syracuse and Byzantium.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. There were only individual events at the ancient Olympic games and at other Panhellenic athletic festivals; there were no team events.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Archaic Greek statues were brightly painted.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Hoplite battles were usually brief and casualties were normally light for both sides.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect