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1
Which of the following was not characteristic of Minoan civilization?
A)Linear A script
B)"cyclopean" walls
C)bull-leaping
D)seafaring
E)labyrinthine architecture
2
The Iliad and the Odyssey
A)analyze Greek cosmology.
B)are heroic tales of the Trojan War and its aftermath.
C)are histories of the Persian Wars.
D)recount the genealogy of the gods.
E)detail systems for foretelling the future.
3
The gods of ancient Greece
A)were immortal.
B)were like humans: amorous and quarrelsome.
C)intervened in human lives.
D)communicated through oracles.
E)All these answers are correct.
4
Herodotus was
A)the first historian.
B)the founder of Athenian democracy.
C)a natural philosopher.
D)a priest of Apollo.
E)an Olympic athlete.
5
Beginning in 508 B.C.E., who held the power to make laws and determine state policy in Athens?
A)elected representatives
B)adult men and women
C)male landowners
D)soldiers and slaves
E)All these answers are correct
6
Greek drama probably originated in
A)enactments of Greek epics.
B)religious rituals.
C)athletic games.
D)the Peloponnesian War.
E)All these answers are correct.
7
Which philosopher emphasized the underlying numerical proportion of reality?
A)Thales
B)Democritus
C)Pythagoras
D)Hippocrates
E)Socrates
8
Plato's idealism suggested that
A)matter is composed of indivisible atoms.
B)"man is the measure of all things."
C)truth and justice are relative.
D)reality is in the realm of unchanging Forms.
E)knowledge was dependent on direct experience.
9
Aristotle's contributions include all of the following EXCEPT
A)the empirical method of observation.
B)the classification of plants and animals.
C)treatises on politics, poetics, and ethics.
D)the doctrine of the Golden Mean.
E)inventing the dialectical method of reasoning.
10
Confucian philosophy was based on
A)moral order and proper conduct.
B)the suspension of critical judgment.
C)the renunciation of societal values.
D)the union of mind and body.
E)harmonizing the individual will with nature.
11
Classical Greek painting, sculpture, and architecture emphasized
A)symmetry.
B)humanism.
C)realism.
D)idealism.
E)All these answers are correct.
12
Which of the following is representative of Hellenistic culture?
A)the theater at Epidauros
B)the Analects
C)the Doryphorus (spear-bearer)
D)the Parthenon
E)Laocoön and his Sons
13
Most Greek islands are located in
A)Asia Minor.
B)the Adriatic Sea.
C)the Ionian Sea.
D)the Aegean Sea.
E)the Peloponnesus.
14
Troy is located
A)on the island of Crete.
B)near Mt. Olympus.
C)in Asia Minor near the Hellespont.
D)at the tip of the Italian peninsula.
E)on the Peloponnesus.
15
Athens is located
A)on the island of Crete.
B)in Asia minor near Miletus.
C)on the coast of the Aegean Sea.
D)on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.
E)on the Peloponnesus.





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