Chapter 4 Quizzes

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. The ______ was a "secret police" force designed to terrorize helots and keep them under control.

lykoi correct incorrect

cynoscephalae correct incorrect

thanatopheroi correct incorrect

krypteia correct incorrect

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. Until what age were Spartan men obligated to remain fit and continue their military service?

Fifty correct incorrect

Sixty correct incorrect

Forty-five correct incorrect

Sixty-five correct incorrect

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. What is the name of the "dining group" that was central to the social experience and education of Spartan young men?

Symposion correct incorrect

Synoecism correct incorrect

Syssition correct incorrect

Synhedron correct incorrect

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. At the age of seven, Spartan boys left home to be trained in groups known as "______."

syssitia correct incorrect

herds correct incorrect

prides correct incorrect

shield rows correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not one of the characteristics, according to Plutarch and Xenophon, of Spartan marriages?

Young grooms would visit their brides in secret at night, and try to avoid detection as they went to and from their barracks correct incorrect

Some couples might have children together before they ever saw each other in the daylight correct incorrect

A couple's marriage could, by law, last no more than five years correct incorrect

Women were married after a process of ritual "capture," which involved having their heads shaved and being dressed in men's clothing correct incorrect

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. What is the principal difficulty for historians in writing about Sparta?

The sheer lack of ancient sources that say anything about Sparta correct incorrect

Many of our ancient sources have an idealized image of Spartan society correct incorrect

Many of our ancient sources are Athenian, and thus hostile to Spartan society and culture correct incorrect

Almost all of our ancient sources for Sparta are literary, and not historical correct incorrect

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. Full Spartan male citizens referred to themselves as ______.

homoioi correct incorrect

epheboi correct incorrect

aristoi correct incorrect

agathoi correct incorrect

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. Until the end of the fifth century, Spartans were permitted to use only what as money?

Grain correct incorrect

Livestock correct incorrect

Iron correct incorrect

Lead correct incorrect

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. One ephor was always designated as ______, meaning that his name at Sparta was used to designate the year.

basileus correct incorrect

eponymous correct incorrect

archon correct incorrect

lunar correct incorrect

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. The ephors at Sparta were elected by what process, which the philosopher Aristotle later derided as "childish"?

Secret ballot correct incorrect

A show of hands correct incorrect

Striking spears on shields correct incorrect

Acclamation by shouting correct incorrect

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. Which of the following philosophical works is marked by the inclusion of a number of features drawn from an idealized version of Sparta?

Plato's Republic correct incorrect

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics correct incorrect

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations correct incorrect

Aristotle's Politics correct incorrect

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. As a result of the conquest of neighboring regions, the ______ may have outnumbered Spartan citizens by a ratio of seven to one, or even higher.

perioeci correct incorrect

Argives correct incorrect

Lacedaemonians correct incorrect

helots correct incorrect

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. What was the sole basis of the Spartan economy?

The export of simple craft goods correct incorrect

Agriculture correct incorrect

The lead and silver mines of Mt. Taygetus correct incorrect

The slave market, in which Sparta annually sold a share of its helot population correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not one of the checks on the power of the ephors?

Ephors served for only one year correct incorrect

Ephors could not be re-elected correct incorrect

Ephors had to swear each morning at an altar of Zeus to uphold the laws without bias correct incorrect

Ephors were subject to audit by their successors correct incorrect

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. The conquest of which two areas in the eighth century BC made Sparta one of the largest Greek states?

Argos and Naupactos correct incorrect

Laconia and Messenia correct incorrect

Attica and Argos correct incorrect

Arcadia and Boeotia correct incorrect

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. The perioeci were obligated to serve in the Spartan government, but were not permitted to serve in the army.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The male infants of Spartan citizens were inspected by Spartan officials to determine whether they would be raised or abandoned to death.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. According to Plutarch, Lycurgus permitted Spartan women to participate in processions and at festivals, but forbade them from doing so in the nude.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Helots were subjected to an annual beating to remind them that they were inferior to the Spartans.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Any member of the Peloponnesian League could convene a meeting of the League.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect