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Chapter Two
The Aegean and Archaic Greece
Multiple Choice
1. __________ refers to the basic Greek city-state.
A) Demos
B) Plutos
C) Polis
D) Acropolis
E) Kouros
Answer: C
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2. __________ means the “high city,” and referred to the elevated place in the center of the city occupied by the temples of the gods.
A) Plutos
B) Aristos
C) Kouros
D) Hellenes
E) Acropolis
Answer: E
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3. __________ is a style of vase painting that made use of bold, simple, linear designs.
A) Archaic
B) Kouros
C) Classical
D) Geometric
E) Kore
Answer: D
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4. In three-dimension art, the __________ style consisted of figures that exhibit a stiff, frontal pose.
A) kouros
B) geometric
C) contrapposto
D) Doric
E) archaic
Answer: E
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5. __________ refers to a freestanding sculpture of a nude male youth.
A) Ionic
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Kouros
E) Doric
Answer: D
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6. __________ refers to a sculpture of a fully clothed female.
A) Kouroi
B) Koric
C) Kore
D) Contrapposto
E) Polis
Answer: C
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7. __________ refers to the arrangement of body parts in sculpture so that the weight-bearing leg is apart from the free leg, thereby shifting the hip/shoulder axis.
A) Kore
B) Kouroi
C) Doric
D) Polis
E) Contrapposto
Answer: E
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8. The __________ order refers to a style of architecture employing columns capped by heavy lintels and a pedimented roof.
A) platea
B) Ionic
C) trireme
D) Doric
E) Corinthian
Answer: D
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9. The Minoan civilization was centered on the city of __________.
A) Crete
B) Thessaly
C) Knossos
D) Solon
E) Thebes
Answer: C
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10. Minoan __________ has yet to be fully deciphered.
A) symbolism
B) religion
C) sculpture
D) pottery
E) writing
Answer: E
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11. Minoan __________ had running water and elaborate drainage systems.
A) cities
B) villages
C) houses
D) palaces
E) ships
Answer: D
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12. The “Palace of __________” had so many rooms that Greek myth called it the “labyrinth of the Minotaur.”
A) Minoan
B) Crete
C) Knossos
D) Aegean
E) Minos
Answer: E
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13. Minoan civilization was centered on __________.
A) militarism
B) politics
C) trade
D) hunting
E) agriculture
Answer: C
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14. The __________ supplanted the Minoans as rulers of Crete.
A) Spartans
B) Persians
C) Mycenaeans
D) Alexandrians
E) Egyptians
Answer: C
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15. The Mycenaean military was the basis of Homer’s __________.
A) Odyssey
B) Aeneid
C) Dialogues
D) Tragedies
E) Iliad
Answer: E
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16. The stones used to construct Mycenaean fortresses were so large that the later Greeks called them __________.
A) Minotauran
B) Cyclopean
C) Zeusian
D) Athenian
E) Mycenaean
Answer: B Page Ref: 57
17. An example of Mycenaean architecture is the __________ Gate at the Palace of Mycenae.
A) Gods
B) Greek
C) Wolf
D) Lion
E) Giant
Answer: D
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18. The four centuries between the Mycenaean and Greek civilization are called the Greek __________.
A) Adolescence
B) Hellenes
C) Historia
D) Middle Ages
E) Hellenistic Age
Answer: D
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19. The Hellene calendar began on the date of the first __________.
A) Greek War
B) Persian War
C) Olympics
D) Egyptian War
E) Peloponnesian War
Answer: C
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20. The Greek Archaic period lasted from __________ B.C.E.
A) 1100-300
B) 900-720
C) 700-340
D) 800-480
E) 1200-907
Answer: D
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21. The word __________ means “love of wisdom.”
A) poetics
B) Socratic
C) atomism
D) philosophy
E) materialism
Answer: D
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22. __________ was an important school of pre-Socratic philosophy.
A) Platonism
B) Aristotelianism
C) Scholasticism
D) Materialism
E) Idealism
Answer: D
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23. Horizontal bands used in organizing a design are called __________.
A) murals
B) friezes
C) geometric
D) devotionals
E) registers
Answer: E
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24. Athenian pottery can be divided into two types: black-figure and __________.
A) white-figure
B) decorative
C) red-figure
D) geometric
E) Gorgon
Answer: C
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25. The __________ column on Greek temples probably originated in Egypt two thousand years earlier.
A) decorated
B) pedimented
C) shafted
D) grounded
E) fluted
Answer: E
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26. A band of relief elements below the cornice of a Greek temple is called the __________.
A) entablature
B) stylobate
C) frieze
D) capital
E) architrave
Answer: C
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27. The Greek equivalent to our musical scale is called a __________.
A) mood
B) tone
C) harmony
D) mode
E) plan
Answer: D
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28. The Greek doctrine of __________ asserted that music could affect character.
A) Dorian
B) mode
C) ethos
D) philos
E) Pythagoras
Answer: C
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29. For the Greeks, dance, music, and __________ were inseparably entwined.
A) pleasure
B) distraction
C) bodies
D) daily life
E) drama
Answer: E
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30. Sappho is called a __________ because she wrote her poems to be accompanied by a lyre.
A) lyricist
B) lyrist
C) moralist
D) singer
E) ethicist
Answer: B Page Ref: 71
Fill in the Blank
31. Hesiod depicted the hard life of an emigrant farmer in his poem __________.
Answer: Works and Days
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32. Hesiod’s most famous work is the __________, which traces the mythological history of the Greek gods.
Answer: Theogony
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33. The poet __________ is the source of such fables as that of the tortoise and the hare.
Answer: Aesop
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34. Much of Greek culture can be seen as __________: original ideas on which later ideas are based.
Answer: prototypes
Page Ref: 73
35. __________ was replaced by iron during the Greek Middle Ages.
Answer: Bronze
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36. The Greek polis was owned by the __________.
Answer: citizens
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37. The Greek gods were called __________ because they dwelled on Mount Olympus.
Answer: Olympian
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38. The festivals of the god __________ gave birth to Greek drama.
Answer: Dionysus
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39. The Dipylon Vase originally served as a __________ monument.
Answer: grave
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40. __________ often had signatures and typically served as funerary and temple art.
Answer: Kouroi
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41. The Greeks believed the gods invented musical instruments, and Athena played the __________.
Answer: flute
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42. The religious rituals of ancient Greece centered on __________, from which Greek theatre likely developed.
Answer: dance
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43. The Greek literary tradition begins with __________, rather than written, works.
Answer: oral
Page Ref: 68
44. Scholars call Epic poems that draw their material from legends and oral traditions __________.
Answer: primary
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45. The heroes of Homer’s poems are __________, not individual, real people.
Answer: types
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True or False
46. Minoan architecture employed both circular and rectangular columns.
Answer: True
Page Ref: 55
47. Minoan art tells us that they likely had a cult of a sacred wolf.
Answer: False
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48. The Greeks took the Minoans as their model.
Answer: False
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49. Achilles and Odysseus were both figures drawn from Mycenaean culture.
Answer: True
Page Ref: 56
50. Mycenaeans practice mummification.
Answer: True
Page Ref: 56
51. The Greek polis was comprised of four distinct sections.
Answer: False
Page Ref: 59
52. The Greek legend of the Minotaur probably stemmed from a Minoan cult of the sacred bull.
Answer: True
Page Ref: 55
53. By the end of the Archaic period, Greek city-states no longer included slaves.
Answer: False
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54. The Greeks referred to cities by the collective name of their citizens.
Answer: True
Page Ref: 59
55. The Greeks represented gods in human terms.
Answer: True
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Short Answer
56. What is the name for the style of Greek temples during the Archaic period?
Answer: Doric
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57. How was the government of the Greek polis different from a monarchy?
Answer: it was governed by the citizens
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58. What were the criteria for being a Greek citizen?
Answer: male, free, adult, and native-born
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59. Were the Greek gods always virtuous?
Answer: no, sometimes they are worse than humans
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60. Which Greek philosopher argued that mathematics discovers universal constants?
Answer: Pythagoras
Page Ref: 61
Essay
61. Select a type of pre-Socratic Greek philosophy. Discuss its content, then suggest its possible influence on later or modern society’s thinking.
62. Compare and contrast the Minoan and Mycenaean palaces. How do their architecture and design inform us about differences between these two societies?
63. Discuss the role of music in Greek society. How did it relate to everyday and religious life? How did it relate to the other arts? How does the Greek conception of music differ from modern conceptions?