Question 1

The Persian Wars were touched off by

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A)  the Persian burning of Sparta.
B)  the Persian occupation of Crete.
C)  Macedonian defiance of Darius.
D)  Athenian support of the Ionian revolt.
E)  Spartan attacks on Anatolian provinces of Persia.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

With the Persian Wars behind them, the Greeks

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A)  entered their Classical period.
B)  experienced a prolonged war between Athens and Sparta.
C)  became conscious of their common culture and developed contempt for foreigners as "barbarians."
D)  united into the Delian League.
E)  All of theseF) C) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 3

Herodotus's historiai examined

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A)  peoples in Europe, Asia, and Africa and the Persian Wars.
B)  the Peloponnesian War.
C)  scientific subjects such as the circumference of the earth.
D)  medicine and the four humors.
E)  the history of all religions.F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 4

All of the following are true of Athenian drama except that it

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A)  originated in festivals to Dionysus, the god of wine.
B)  involved open-air performances.
C)  was a poetic medium for the ideology of the polis.
D)  was the best prose of Classical Greece.
E)  affected modern comedy and tragedy.F) None of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 5

Unlike Herodotus, Thucydides was all of the following except

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A)  a contemporary of the events he described.
B)  concerned with careful observation and historical accuracy.
C)  a historian of many ancient civilizations.
D)  interested in the effects of war on the human soul.
E)  interested in emphasizing primary evidence.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 6

The first woman to win at the Olympics was

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A)  Athena
B)  Xenophon
C)  Cynisca
D)  Sappho
E)  AgesilausF) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 7

Why is Herodotus considered the first Western historian? Is there any significant difference between his work and that of Thucydides?

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Question 8

Arete means

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A)  Excellence
B)  Integrity
C)  Harmony
D)  War
E)  GovernmentF) All of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 9

In Sophocles' Antigone, the heroine

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A)  struggles to obey divine rather than human law.
B)  obeys the laws of the community rather than Zeus.
C)  kills her brother and tries to bury him.
D)  marries Orestes.
E)  commits suicide rather than disobey divine law.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 10

Which is not a social class in ancient Sparta

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A)  Similars
B)  Perioikoi
C)  Helots
D)  Demos
E)  None of the above are an ancient Spartan social classF) None of the above
G) A) and C)

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