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The Greek alphabet came from |
| | A) | Egypt |
| | B) | Mycenae |
| | C) | Crete |
| | D) | Phoenicia |
| | E) | Syria |
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2 | |
Which of the following was not a famous woman in ancient Greece? |
| | A) | Sappho of Lesbos |
| | B) | Iaia of Kyzikos |
| | C) | Aspasia |
| | D) | Artemisia |
| | E) | none of the above |
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3 | |
The Classical Greek style can best be described as |
| | A) | stylized and organic |
| | B) | stylized and idealized |
| | C) | figurative and nonrepresentational |
| | D) | idealized but nonfigurative |
| | E) | naturalistic but idealized |
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4 | |
Which best describes Greek government during the Classical period? |
| | A) | democracy |
| | B) | autocracy |
| | C) | tyranny |
| | D) | monarchy |
| | E) | aristocracy |
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5 | |
The main media used by Greek sculptors were |
| | A) | bronze and iron |
| | B) | marble and terracotta |
| | C) | terracotta and bronze |
| | D) | bronze and marble |
| | E) | gold and marble |
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6 | |
Which of the following do not belong together? |
| | A) | Zeus -- thunderbolt |
| | B) | Juno -- peacock |
| | C) | Hephaestos -- hearth |
| | D) | Neptune -- trident |
| | E) | Hermes -- caduceus |
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7 | |
Which of the following do not belong together? |
| | A) | hydria -- water jar |
| | B) | amphora -- storage jar |
| | C) | krater -- flask for pouring oil |
| | D) | kylix -- drinking cup |
| | E) | oenochoe -- jug for pouring wine |
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8 | |
"Classical" means |
| | A) | old-fashioned and valuable |
| | B) | traditional and of high quality |
| | C) | out of date and trite |
| | D) | traditional and stylized |
| | E) | idealized and valuable |
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9 | |
The Riace bronzes were found in |
| | A) | Riace |
| | B) | a cave |
| | C) | the sea |
| | D) | a grave |
| | E) | a temple |
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10 | |
Which do not belong together? |
| | A) | volute, shaft, base, flutes |
| | B) | abacus, volute, base, frieze |
| | C) | metope, triglyph, abacus, echinus |
| | D) | abacus, volute, echinus, metope |
| | E) | stylobate, drums, echinus, metope |
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11 | |
The general who commissioned the Parthenon was |
| | A) | Alkiabiades |
| | B) | Sophokles |
| | C) | Herodotos |
| | D) | Xenophon |
| | E) | Perikles |
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12 | |
Which is not part of the Parthenon plan? |
| | A) | naos |
| | B) | treasury |
| | C) | pronaos |
| | D) | archway |
| | E) | peristyle |
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13 | |
Which is not a pair? |
| | A) | pediment -- triangle |
| | B) | metope -- trapezoid |
| | C) | triglyph -- vertical |
| | D) | shaft -- cylinder |
| | E) | architrave -- rectangle |
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14 | |
The statue of Athena in the Parthenon naos was covered with |
| | A) | marble and bronze |
| | B) | ivory and bronze |
| | C) | ivory and marble |
| | D) | gold and marble |
| | E) | gold and ivory |
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15 | |
Which is not part of Greek theater architecture? |
| | A) | orchestra |
| | B) | pronaos |
| | C) | proscenium |
| | D) | skene |
| | E) | parodos |
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16 | |
The first known Greek artist to celebrate the female nude was |
| | A) | Praxiteles |
| | B) | Phidias |
| | C) | Perikles |
| | D) | Lysippos |
| | E) | Exekias |
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17 | |
Alexander the Great was |
| | A) | an Athenian |
| | B) | a Persian |
| | C) | a Pergamene |
| | D) | a Macedonian |
| | E) | a Mycenaean |
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18 | |
Greek Hellenistic art is |
| | A) | realistic |
| | B) | typically in a "corkscrew" arrangement |
| | C) | more passionate than Hellenic art |
| | D) | conveys inner character |
| | E) | all of the above |
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19 | |
Plato's spokesman in the Dialogues was |
| | A) | Perikles |
| | B) | Herodotos |
| | C) | Sophokles |
| | D) | Demosthenes |
| | E) | Socrates |
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20 | |
Which of the following is true? |
| | A) | Homer wrote the Laws |
| | B) | Plato wrote the Iliad |
| | C) | Socrates wrote Dialogues |
| | D) | Demosthenes wrote speeches |
| | E) | Euripides wrote comedies |
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