Introduction Quizzes

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. What is the Greek name for both the ancient and modern Greek homeland?

Graeci correct incorrect

Graioi correct incorrect

Achaea correct incorrect

Hellas correct incorrect

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. How were the words of a text usually arranged on a papyrus roll?

In long horizontal rows, each spanning the whole length of the roll correct incorrect

Vertically, in small blocks correct incorrect

Vertically, with alternating columns beginning at the top and bottom edges correct incorrect

Horizontally and in columns correct incorrect

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. Our richest source for the Roman conquests in the provinces of their empire, and for important figures of the Late Hellenistic period, is ______.

Callimachus correct incorrect

The Augustan History correct incorrect

Plutarch correct incorrect

Seneca correct incorrect

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. For which era of ancient Greek history are our sources the fullest and most extensive?

The Archaic Age correct incorrect

The Classical period correct incorrect

The Bronze Age correct incorrect

The Hellenistic period correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not one of the specialists on whom historians of ancient Greece rely to process the physical and material remains of antiquity?

Paleographers correct incorrect

Dendrologists correct incorrect

Archaeologists correct incorrect

Epigraphists correct incorrect

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. The "Mediterranean triad" consisted of ______.

Meat, cheese, and grapes correct incorrect

Fruits, cheese, and olives correct incorrect

Grain, tobacco, and meat correct incorrect

Grain, grapes, and olives correct incorrect

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. Which of the following are the earliest Greek texts we have?

Herodotus' History and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War correct incorrect

Aristotle's The Athenian Constitution and Plutarch's Life of Solon correct incorrect

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey correct incorrect

Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days correct incorrect

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. The word ______ denotes a category of literary composition defined according to its form and content.

langue correct incorrect

genre correct incorrect

parole correct incorrect

synchrony correct incorrect

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. About how much of the landscape of Greece is covered by mountains?

25 percent correct incorrect

35 percent correct incorrect

50 percent correct incorrect

75 percent correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was not a very small part of the typical ancient Greek diet?

Meat correct incorrect

Grains correct incorrect

Butter correct incorrect

Milk correct incorrect

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. It is primarily on the basis of the dating of ______ that archaeologists established a chronology for prehistoric and early historic Greece.

Inscriptions correct incorrect

Temple locations correct incorrect

Clay pots correct incorrect

Papyrus fragments correct incorrect

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. What is the name given to the syllabic writing system that survives on tablets that date to the Late Bronze Age?

Pylian correct incorrect

Cretan correct incorrect

Linear B correct incorrect

Style LB1 correct incorrect

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. For archaeologists, a crucial opportunity for establishing "absolute" dates in the chronology of ancient Greek history arises when which of the following occurs?

The name of a Greek individual is recorded on a found object correct incorrect

A datable object from another culture is found alongside Greek objects correct incorrect

There are clear signs of fire damage, producing "baked artifacts" correct incorrect

A durable metal such as gold or silver is found at a site correct incorrect

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. Our primary Greek source for the Persian Wars is ______.

Herodotus correct incorrect

Thucydides correct incorrect

Appian correct incorrect

Aristotle correct incorrect

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. Whose death in 323 BC marks the end of the Classical period?

Solon correct incorrect

Alexander III ("the Great") correct incorrect

Diodorus of Sicily correct incorrect

Plato correct incorrect

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. With the exception of building stone and clay, Greece is not especially rich in raw materials.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Hesiod's Theogony is set in the poet's own day and addresses social concerns of the time.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The best environment for the survival of papyrus is a hot and dry one.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. The tragedians of fifth-century Athens borrowed their plots from ancient myths, but their plays sometimes reflect contemporary social and political concerns.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect

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. Archaeologists frequently find ancient Greek artifacts made of wood, cloth, and leather.

True. correct incorrect

False. correct incorrect