Chapter 6 Quizzes

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. Who led the Delian League's successful naval campaigns against the Persians in the aftermath of the Persian Wars of 480-479 BC?

Ephialtes correct incorrect

Cimon correct incorrect

Pericles correct incorrect

Phidias correct incorrect

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. Who was the Spartan general whose behavior and personality issues within the Hellenic League afforded the Athenians a chance to create and lead a new alliance of Greeks?

Pausanias correct incorrect

Pleistoanax correct incorrect

Leonidas correct incorrect

Pleistarchus correct incorrect

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. A woman of higher status than a prostitute, but who was still paid to associate with men, was known as a ______.

phile correct incorrect

hetaera correct incorrect

despoina correct incorrect

basilis correct incorrect

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. What was the fate of Ephialtes not long after he carried through his political reforms in Athens?

He was ostracized correct incorrect

He fled to Corinth, afraid of his political enemies in Athens correct incorrect

He died in the initial campaign of the "First" Peloponnesian War correct incorrect

He was assassinated correct incorrect

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. The polis of ______ played an important role in the outbreak of both Peloponnesian Wars.

Elis correct incorrect

Megara correct incorrect

Troezen correct incorrect

Gortyn correct incorrect

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. Which of the following measures did Pericles introduce at Athens?

Abolition of debt for all metic merchants correct incorrect

Pay for jury service correct incorrect

A ban on exports to any members of the Peloponnesian League correct incorrect

That all meetings of the ekklesia should be held out in the open, on the Pnyx correct incorrect

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. Which two regions were vital sources of grain imports into Athens?

Spain and Carthage correct incorrect

Sicily and Thrace correct incorrect

The Black Sea region and Egypt correct incorrect

Macedonia and Carthage correct incorrect

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. The threats facing the Greek cities of Magna Graecia after 480 BC were mainly the result of what?

Constant raids by Carthaginian pirates correct incorrect

Economic difficulties resulting from Carthaginian embargoes correct incorrect

Natural disasters in both Italy and Sicily correct incorrect

Changes in the political organization of various other peoples of the Italian peninsula correct incorrect

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. Manual work done indoors was despised by the Greek aristocracy, who derided it as "______" labor.

banausic correct incorrect

pnigean correct incorrect

demiurgic correct incorrect

asthenic correct incorrect

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. The states of the Delian League made their contributions in either ______.

men or money correct incorrect

men or ships correct incorrect

ships or money correct incorrect

money or citizenship rights for Athenians correct incorrect

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. What event in 454 BC made it clear that the Delian League had undoubtedly transformed itself into the Athenian Empire?

The Athenians' possession of the Megarian port of Pegae correct incorrect

The incorporation of Phocis and Locris into the Delian League correct incorrect

The rebellion and subjugation of the island of Thasos correct incorrect

The transfer of the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens correct incorrect

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. The lyric poet ______ is remembered mainly for his epitaphs for Greeks who died fighting during the Persian Wars.

Thucydides correct incorrect

Ischomachus correct incorrect

Simonides correct incorrect

Pindar correct incorrect

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. What was the political fate of Themistocles?

He was assassinated in Athens correct incorrect

He fled to Sparta after falling out with his political allies in Athens correct incorrect

He retired from politics and died on his family farm correct incorrect

He was ostracized and eventually fled to Persia correct incorrect

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. Which of the following art forms provides us with the most information about the ordinary details of Greek daily life in the fifth century BC?

Bronze sculpture correct incorrect

Vase painting correct incorrect

Epic poetry correct incorrect

Marble sculpture correct incorrect

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. The economic foundation of an oikos at the beginning of a marriage typically consisted of which two things?

A piece of land from the wife's father and livestock from the husband's family correct incorrect

The house, from the wife's family, and livestock from the husband's family correct incorrect

A piece of land from the wife's father, and any wedding gifts received from the husband's best man correct incorrect

The wife's dowry and a husband's contribution, usually of land and the house correct incorrect

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. Children of both sexes participated in the religious services of an Athenian family.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Pericles' citizenship law of 451 BC limited Athenian citizenship to those whose parents were both Athenians.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The size of juries in modern Western jurisprudence has its origin in the small size of Athenian juries (between 11-15 men) in the fifth century BC.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. In Athens, Themistocles favored friendly relations with Sparta and opposed the advance of democracy, while Cimon encouraged rivalry with Sparta and was in favor of further democratic developments.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Greeks could be married to more than one spouse at a time.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect