The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 2: The Contest for Excellence

True or False Quiz

1
Minoan palaces resembled the pyramids and ziggurats of ancient Egypt and Sumeria.
A)True
B)False
2
The task of translating Linear B was facilitated by its similarity to an early form of the Greek spoken language.
A)True
B)False
3
When the Greeks regained the skill of writing after about 800 B.C.E., it was used not only for commercial purposes, but also for writing poetry.
A)True
B)False
4
The Greek gods surpassed humans in their omnipotence and their transcendent perfection.
A)True
B)False
5
Eupalinus, an engineer in the sixth century B.C.E., constructed an enormous tunnel through a mountain that supplied a city on the island of Samos with fresh water.
A)True
B)False
6
The rational inquiries of some early Greek thinkers were sometimes met with suspicion and accusation of impiety by more religious Greeks.
A)True
B)False
7
Between 650 and 550 B.C.E., tyrants legitimized their authority through hereditary connections.
A)True
B)False
8
Men and women shared tasks equally in the Greek household.
A)True
B)False
9
Olives, and the oil pressed from them, were an important source of the economic prosperity of some city-states.
A)True
B)False
10
Prostitutes enjoyed some legitimacy in Greek social and political life.
A)True
B)False
11
Around 600 B.C.E., Athenian economic prosperity led to democratic political reforms.
A)True
B)False
12
Cleisthenes' constitution, adopted in 508 B.C.E., allowed for more direct democratic participation in Athens.
A)True
B)False
13
The Spartans created a militaristic state in part to keep control of the helot population.
A)True
B)False
14
When the Persians first invaded the Greek peninsula in 490 B.C.E., the Spartans came to the aid of their Athenian neighbors immediately.
A)True
B)False
15
Herodotus relied on myths and the Greek heroic tradition to construct his history of the Persian wars.
A)True
B)False
16
The Athenians seized control of the Delian League, but allowed the member city-states to control the treasury of the league.
A)True
B)False
17
Pericles encouraged more democracy in Athenian politics by introducing payment for participation as a juror or in the Council of 500.
A)True
B)False
18
The architects who created the Parthenon used optical illusion to create a vision of perfect proportion.
A)True
B)False
19
In Sophocles' most famous series, The Theban Plays, the main character Oedipus avoids fulfilling the prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother.
A)True
B)False
20
Alcibiades was accused of impiety when he allegedly destroyed a statue of Hermes and mocked religious rituals.
A)True
B)False
21
Sparta, along with the other allies in the Peloponnesian League, challenged Athenian power beginning in 431 B.C.E.
A)True
B)False
22
When the people of Melos sought neutrality, the Athenians respected their wishes and protected them from enslavement by the Spartans.
A)True
B)False
23
Socrates challenged the moral relativism of the Sophists and tried to explore the nature of right action.
A)True
B)False
24
Socrates left no writings of his own; we know of his ideas from the writings of his student Plato.
A)True
B)False
25
Playwrights used tragedy to criticize Greek society, but comedy never challenged the ideas or political problems of the time.
A)True
B)False
26
Hippocrates reinforced the idea that supernatural forces were at the root of all illnesses.
A)True
B)False
27
The wars among the poleis, sometimes fomented by the Persians, led to a decrease in democratic forms of government.
A)True
B)False
28
In Ancient Greece, the word for a city-state and its surrounding countryside is "polis."
A)True
B)False
29
The Greeks tended to view foreigners as "barbarians" and "enemies."
A)True
B)False
30
Herodotus chronicled the events of the Peloponnesian War.
A)True
B)False
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