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Question #1

When he was born his person’s mother Thetis attempted to make him immortal by dipping him in the sacred waters of the river Styx. Only she didn’t dip one part. Who is this person? (This answer can be found at www.greek-gods.info.)

A Agamemnon

B Odysseus

C Paris

D Achilles

Question #2

What is areté?

A an eight line poem

B a kind of paint

C a cocept of virtue, excellence and goodness

D a musical instrument

Question #3

What is an hellanodikai?

A an island

B a courtesan

C an Olympic judge

D a vessel for holding oil

Question #4

How many years was Plato’s academy open?

A nearly 1,000 years

B nearly 10 years

C nearly 100 years

D less than one year

Question #5

How do Odysseus and his men escape the cyclopse monster, Polyphemos?

A They construct wings and fly away.

B Athena turns them into lions, long enough for them to make their escape.

C They tie themselves underneath sheep.

D THey masquerade as guests at a wedding party.

Question #6

Eli Hunt’s theory on a lost Olympic sport centers on what item?

A a blindfold

B a wheeled vehicle

C foot restraints

D hand restraints

Question #7

Art history professor Boona Wescoast says that, on the whole Greek monsters don’t so something that Polyphemos, the cyclopse from Homer’s Odyssey, does? What does Polyphemos do that is unusal when compared to many other Greek monsters?

A try to gobble people up

B try to fly

C try to rescue soldiers in battle

D try to dance

Question #8

According the psychology professor Marshall Duke, the source of the word “monster” derives from what word?

A covering

B warning

C uncle

D night

Question #9

Who was queen of the gods and what is her Roman counterpart?

A She is Artemis. Her Roman counterpart is Aphrodite.

B She is Hera. Her Roman counterpart is Juno.

C She is Hestia. Her Roman counterpart is Vesta.

D She is Ares. Her Roman counterpart is Diana.

Question #10

Who is not known as a playwright?

A Aristophanes

B Sophocles

C Socrates

D Eurpides

Question #11

Who is most often credited with writing The Iliad and The Odyssey?

A Horace

B Virgil

C Homer

D Sophocles

Question #12

What is post and lintel?

A an architecture term

B a method for creating sculptures in human

C an ancient Olympic sport

D a pottery term

Question #13

What is a krater?

A a vessel used for mixing wine and water

B the foundation on which most buiding from Ancient Greece were built

C a carving tool

D a kind of brick

Question #14

What does Fiero say is “central to all the arts of classical Greece”?

A “literacy”

B “deep religious beliefs”

C “meditation”

D “the human body and human experience”

Question #15

The Winged Victory at Samothrace — also called Nike of Samothrace — is a, WHAT?

A Sculpture found in King Tut’s tomb

B The first marble sculpture known to exist

C A document ending a war

D Hellenistic sculpture

Question #16

The Parthenon was built under the leadership of this Athenian statesman and orator. Who was this person?

A Augustus

B Pericles

C Julius Caesar

D Alexander the Great

Question #17

Oedipus is often considered the best-known character in Ancient Greek drama. In Greek drama, who is Antigone to Oedipus?

A only his mother

B his wife and mother

C only his wife

D his daughter

Question #18

Lydian mode is:

A a musical term

B a sculpture technique

C a poetry/literary term

D an architectural term

Question #19

In The Republic, he engages in conversations. In The Clouds, a drama, he appears as a character. He didn’t write these works. Fiero says of him, “he preferred to roam the streets of Athens and engage his fellow citizens in conversation and debate.” He, Fiero says, felt “that the unexamined life is not worth living.” Who is he?

A Aristophranes

B Aristotle

C Sophocles

D Socrates

Question #20

In architecture, what is a frieze?

A a sculptured or ornamental band

B a doorway

C the square panel between the beam ends under the roof of a structure

D a type of canopy

Question #21

Fiero calls this work, “the world’s first treaties on literary criticism.” What is the work and who wrote it?

A The work is A Look at Good and Evil and Socrates wrote it.

B The work is The Poetics and Aristotle write it.

C The work is Poetry: Line by Line and Sappho wrote it.

D The work is The Republic and Plato wrote

Question #22

During the 5th century b.c.e. there were state-sponsored drama festivals. The festivals were dedicated to a god. Among many things, this was the god of wine, agriculture and the fertility of nature. This god has close parallels to the Roman god Bacchus. What is the name of this god?

A Tital

B Athena

C Apollo

D Dionysus

Question #23

According to Fiero, with what were the Spohists cocnerned?

A judging sculpture

B forming a society that beleived in only one god

C developing theories of the solar system

D defining the limits of human knowledge

Question #24

A portion of The Republic includes The Allegory of the Cave. Who wrote The Republic?

A Aristotle

B Augustus

C Plato

D Sophocles

Question #25

Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe wrote “one of the most revealing images of the status of women in Minoan society is the famous “Toreador fresco” in which young women, shown with the conventional white skin, and darker-skinned men, engage in the dangerous sport that appears to involve somersaulting over the back __________.” The back of what?

A a charging bull

B dogs

C horses

D lions

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