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1. The port of Athens was the city of :
A. Eleusis B. Megara C. Piraeus D. Corinth |
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2. The oracle of Delphi was located on what mountain?
A. Olympus B. Ida C. Dicte D. Parnassus |
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3. Of how many books was Homer’s Iliad composed?
A. 6 B. 12 C. 15 D. 24 |
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4. Into how many months was the Athenian calendar divided?
A. 10 B. 12 C. 13 D. 15 |
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5. Who believed philosophers should study ethics and human relationships rather than debating the makeup of
the physical world, attracting attention to himself that eventually led to his forced suicide in 399?
A. Sophocles B. Epicurus C. Zeno D. Socrates |
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6. Which direction did the vast majority of Greek temples face?
A. East B. North C. Towards the nearest coast D. Towards Olympus |
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7. The Thracian slave who lived on Samos and established the genre of fables was:
A. Homer B. Aesop C. Hesiod D. Alcaeus |
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8. The island sacred to Apollo, as his birthplace, and the home of a 5th-century treasury was:
A. Melos B. Paros C. Delos D. Ithaca |
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9. Which great palace was the cultural and political hub of Minoan Crete?
A. Phaestos B. Kata Zakro C. Mallia D. Knossos |
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10. The influential lyric poet who made her home at Mytilene in the 6th century was:
A. Alcaeus B. Aspasia C. Sappho D. Xanthippe |
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11. What school of philosophy was named after the painted porch in which its founder Zeno taught?
A. Epicureanism B. Cynicism C. Stoicism D. Peristylism |
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12. In which of the following poleis would women enjoy the most freedom and power?
A. Athens B. Thebes C. Corinth D. Sparta |
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13. What early actor’s career flourished, along with most other arts, in the rule of Peisistratus?
A. Hippias B. Thespis C. Hipparchus D. Thales |
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14. Tablets containing what script were found by Carl Blegan at Pylos and have since been deciphered?
A. Linear A B. Linear B C. Doric D. Ionic |
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15. What was a primary source of purple dye for ancient Greek clothing?
A. fruits B. mushrooms C. ores D. sea snails |
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16. The name Kerameikos refers to the Athenian
A. market B. cemetery C. council house D. path to the Parthenon |
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17. What roadway connected Athens with Eleusis, originating in the cemetery of Athens?
A. Eleusinian Way B. Demeter’s Way C. Sacred Way D. Persephone’s Path |
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18. The author who finished Thucydides and also recounted his own journey, the March of the 10,000, in his
Anabasis was:
A. Xenophon B. Herodotus C. Lysander D. Callimachus |
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19. The 16-ft spear introduced by Phillip II of Macedon was the:
A. drachma B. oikos C. sarissa D. peplos |
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20. Which of the following was NOT one of the classes established during Solon’s reforms?
A. metics B. thetes C. zeugitae D. hippeis |
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21. A relief of a Minoan column, Cyclopean masonry, a relieving triangle, and lionesses can all be found on
famous remains of a gateway at:
A. Sparta B. Mycenae C. Samos D. Ephesus |
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22. A famous play in which women unite and withhold themselves from their husbands to force an end to the
Peloponnesian War is called:
A. Bacchae B. Peace C. The Assemblywomen D. Lysistrata |
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23. The Athenian politician who also wrote poetry was:
A. Cleisthenes B. Draco C. Solon D. Pericles |
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24. The Attic orator who, in the early 4th century, made several speeches in trials, including a defense of
Euphiletos on charges of murdering the adulterer Eratosthenes, was:
A. Demosthenes B. Lysias C. Thrasybulus D. Isagoras |
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25. To an Athenian citizen, a foreigner living in Athens without citizenship was known as a/an:
A. mede B. metic C. helot D. basileos |
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26. Which archon was charged with organizing the annual City Dionysia?
A. thesmotheta B. basileus C. polemarch D. eponymous |
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27. What would it mean if a temple were described as dipteral?
A. Its naos possessed two wings C. Its peristyle was two rows deep
B. Its stylobate was two steps tall D. It lacked a pronaos |
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28. Eponymos, basileos, and polemarch are variations on the position of:
A. archon B. strategos C. ephor D. hoplite |
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29. The dialect of Greek spoken by commoners, hence its name, was:
A. Koine B. Kore C. Thete D. Boeotian |
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30. The seafaring people with whom the Greeks cooperated to colonize the Mediterranean were the:
A. Egyptians B. Dorians C. Phocians D. Phoenicians |
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31. The lead architect and engineer of the Periclean building program was:
A. Praxiteles B. Phidias C. Phineas D. Pythagoras |
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32. A typical archaic statue of a nude, iconic male figure was a/an:
A. oikos B. kore C. kouros D. obol |
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33. Who was the most famous author of Greek New Comedy?
A. Aristophanes B. Menander C. Euripides D. Lolander |
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34. Where were the Pythian Games held?
A. Pythos B. Pylos C. Delphi D. Sparta |
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35. What healing center and sanctuary to Asclepios boasts the best-preserved Greek theater?
A. Epidauros B. Delos C. Delphi D. Ephesus |
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36. Who measured the circumference of the earth remarkably accurately?
A. Empedocles B. Pythagoras C. Euclid D. Eratosthenes |
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37. Which poet from Mytilene included the military as subjects of his poetry, stemming from his own
experiences in battle?
A. Alcaeus B. Pindar C. Hesiod D. Tyrtaeus |
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38. Which Athenian sculptor’s bronze Discobolos remains his most famous work, albeit reproduced?
A. Lysippos B. Praxiteles C. Myron D. Phidias |
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39. What was the predominant food sweetener used by the Greeks?
A. sugar B. fruit juice C. vanilla D. honey |
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40. What was a major goal of the procession of the Panathenaic Festival?
A. to present Athena Polias with a new peplos
B. to remember the fallen soldiers who saved Greece
C. to display the power of the Athenian military and intimidate Sparta
D. to honor the hard-working Athenian slaves |
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| A. to present Athena Polias with a new peplos |
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41. The choicest marble used in Greek sculpture and architecture came from the island of:
A. Delos B. Thera C. Paros D. Melos |
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42. On which river was the city of Sparta located?
A. Xanthus B. Eurotas C. Halys D. Eridanus |
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43. Put these pottery styles in chronological order:
A. Black Figure, Red Figure, Orientalizing, White Ground, Geometric
B. Red Figure, Black Figure, White Ground, Orientalizing, Geometric
C. Orientalizing, Geometric, Red Figure, Black Figure, White Ground
D. Geometric, Orientalizing, Black Figure, Red Figure, White Ground |
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44. Which of the following games did NOT exist?
A. Isthmian B. Nemean C. Boeotian D. Olympian |
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45. Which rocky platform near the Acropolis was the meeting-place of the Ecclesia?
A. Pnyx B. Mt. Lycabettus C. Kerameikos D. Erectheum |
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46. Who was the premiere physician during the age of Pericles?
A. Hippocrates B. Hippolytus C. Hipparchus D. Harmodius |
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47. Which of the following would have demonstrated hubris in a Greek’s eyes?
A. Aristides, by helping ostracize himself C. Demosthenes, by fleeing from battle
B. Xerxes, by bridging the Hellespont D. Alcibiades, by mocking the Mysteries |
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48. After the reforms of Ephialtes, which body’s jurisdiction was reduced to murder trials?
A. Ecclesia B. Boule C. Apella D. Areopagus |
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49. According to Thucydides, standard pay for a good day’s work as a hoplite or unskilled worker was one of
these. Jurors received just half of one.
A. mina B. obol C. drachma D. talent |
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50. Which elegist wrote to commemorate the Athenians who fell at Marathon and Thermopylae?
A. Simonides B. Ion C. Solon D. Mimnermus |
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51. What was both the public and political assembly area and later the marketplace of Athens?
A. Foros B. Kerameikos C. Plaka D. Agora |
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52. What tragedy by Aeschylus is the oldest surviving work in the history of theater?
A. Seven Against Thebes B. The Persians C. Agamemnon D. Prometheus Bound |
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53. Water, Earth, Fire, Air: These were identified by whom as the four “roots”?
A. Democritus B. Heraclitus C. Empedocles D. Thales |
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54. What is the name of the gateway protecting the ascent to the Athenian Acropolis?
A. Propylaea B. Lion Gate C. Tholos D. Labyrinth |
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55. Who, along with his teacher Leucippus, has been credited with founding atomic theory?
A. Thales B. Heraclitus C. Empedocles D. Democritus |
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56. What work by Thucydides included Pericles’s Funeral Oration?
A. The Republic C. The History of Athens
B. History of the Peloponnesian War D. The Persian Wars |
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57. What was the assembly of 28 elders and 2 kings of Sparta named?
A. Gerousia B. Apella C. The Ephors D. Ecclesia |
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58. What drinking cup had a wide, flat, shallow design with two horizontal handles?
A. amphora B. kylix C. krater D. oenochoe |
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59. What silver coin was worth one sixth of a drachma?
A. mina B. chalkos C. obol D. talent |
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60. What Messenians were forced into serfdom by Sparta and watched over by the crypteia?
A. hetaerae B. helots C. metics D. medes |
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61. Whose 508 BC reforms made the Boule an assembly of 500 rather than 400?
A. Solon B. Thrasybulus C. Theramenes D. Cleisthenes |
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62. What was the heliaea?
A. a court B. an assembly of generals C. a cult D. the cavalry regiment |
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63. The Mycenean tholos tomb boasting a corbel arch, a long dromos entrance, and a tumulus is the:
A. Tomb of Menelaus C. Tomb of Agamemnon
B. Tomb of Orestes D Tomb of Clytemnestra |
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64. What was the innermost room of a typical Greek temple, where the god would reside?
A. naos B. opisthodomos C. peristylium D. metope |
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65. What form of 10-year exile was implemented by Cleisthenes, after Solon’s example, as a form to check the
rise to power of dangerous politicians?
A. seisachtheia B. ostracism C. sympoliteia D. bouleterion |
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66. Which order of columns would be the primary order found east of Athens?
A. Doric B. Composite C. Corinthian D. Ionic |
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67. Why was Aristotle’s school called Peripatetic?
A. He talked in circles, rambling on aimlessly
B. His logic was flawed, being circular
C. He walked around as he talked
D. From his perch on the Pnyx everyone around him could see and listen |
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68. Who made an enormous step in sculpture when he depicted Aphrodite fully nude for the first time?
A. Praxiteles B. Polyclitus C. Lysistratus D. Lysippos |
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69. What 7th century Spartan state poet used his elegiac skills to argue for the power of the kings and to rally the
troops during turbulent times in Sparta?
A. Hesiod B. Tarentos C. Tyrtaeus D. Tyro |
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70. With what event does Homer’s Iliad end?
A. The sack of Troy C. The death of Patroclus
B. The duel between Paris and Menelaus D. The funeral games of Hector |
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71. Which of Sophocles’s works about Oedipus was written last, despite its position in the story?
A. Oedipus Tyrannos B. Oedipus at Colonus C. Antigone D. Thebais |
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72. What “father of history” born in Halicarnassus wrote an account of the Persian Wars, our primary source for
the time?
A. Hesiod B. Herodotus C. Thucydides D. Xenophon |
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73. Who reportedly told Roman soldiers he was too busy with his geometry to see their general, leading to his
death?
A. Archimedes B. Pythagoras C. Euclid D. Eratosthenes |
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74. The “back room” of a temple, often added to balance out the pronaos, is known as the:
A. naos B. cella C. opisthodomos D. procella |
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75. The name for Solon’s “shaking off” of debts is:
A. seismoteia B. seisachtheia C. sympoliteia D. asynteia |
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76. Tall vessels with two handles used to transport and store wine as well as to mark graves are known as:
A. amphorae B. oinochai C. krateres D. rhyta |
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77. On the way from the wedding to the groom’s house, the attendants would sing a:
A. epithalamion B. hyporkhema C. partheneia D. hymenaeus |
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78. The philosopher who in 385 BC established his school, the Academy, and was a student of Socrates was:
A. Aristotle B. Zeno C. Anaxagoras D. Plato |
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79. If an assemblyman proposed a decree contrary to existing he law, he could be charged for:
A. graphe paranomon B. graphe anamon C. bouletera paranomon D. bouletera anamon |
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80. The euphemism given as a name to foreign women, courtesans, slave women, and prostitutes was:
A. aspasiana B. hetaera C. pornai D. epikleros |
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81. A large open mixing bowl with volute, calyx, and bell variations was a:
A. kantharos B. kylix C. krater D. amphora |
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82. The wide tunic worn by both men and women, common starting in the Classical period was the:
A. chiton B. peplos C. zoma D. chlamys |
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83. The prolific Athenian orator who delivered four speeches against Philip II in the 340’s BC was:
A. Isocrates B. Isagoras C. Pericles D. Demosthenes |
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84. A religious festival held by Sparta and other Doric states in honor of Apollo at the end of summer was the:
A. Daidala B. Lycaea C. Carnea D. Eleutheria |
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85. This poet from around 700 BC was tending sheep on Mt. Helicon when the Muses told him to write poetry,
such as his Theogony and Works and Days.
A. Homer B. Hesiod C. Herodotus D. Hipponax |
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86. The comedy by Aristophanes which took third place – i.e. last place – at the City Dionysia of 423 was:
A. Knights B. Wasps C. Birds D. Clouds |
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87. Whose comedy entitled Frogs which took first place at the Lenaea in 405?
A. Aristophanes B. Aristomenes C. Menander D. Euripides |
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88. Six hundred feet were equal to about one:
A. daktylos B. stadion C. palaste D. orygia |
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89. What Athenian tragedian whose family came from Phyle wrote 92 plays including the posthumously
produced Bacchae of 405, following his death in 406?
A. Sophocles B. Aeschylus C. Menander D. Euripides |
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90. The first poet known to have employed bucolic poetry was the 3rd century poet:
A. Theocritus B. Thucydides C. Theander D. Theon |
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91. Starting in the Bronze Age, what engraved stone slabs were used to mark and identify the graves of the
dead?
A. stelai B. tumuli C. lekythoi D. larnakes |
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92. Which of the following would best describe your oikos?
A. Your place of employment C. The temple altar at which you sacrifice
B. Your neighborhood D. Your family and household |
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93. What native of Samos moved to Croton, where his religious society for the worship of Apollo made the
colony strong, and is now noted for his musical and mathematical theories?
A. Archimedes B. Eratosthenes C. Pythagoras D. Euclid |
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94. Whose philosophical school, the Garden, included women and slaves, and sought pleasure as the ultimate
good?
A. Eucleides B. Epicurus C. Zeno D. Socrates |
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95. What son of Naumauchus, student of Plato, and tutor of Alexander wrote philosophy, history, and science?
A. Aristotle B. Socrates C. Hippocrates D. Isagoras |
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96. Which Athenian tragedian won 24 competitions with 96 of his 123 plays, which included Electra, Ajax, and
the Oedipus trilogy?
A. Euripides B. Aeschylus C. Sophocles D. Aristophanes |
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