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Question
1. All of the following were Greek philosophers or playwrights in the Classical Age EXCEPT:
A. Plato
B. Euripides
C. Zeno
D. Aristotle
2. In the Archaic period, the most serious foreign threat to Greece was
A. Persia
B. Carthage
C. Alexandria
D. Rome
3. A major engineering feat of the Romans was
A. irrigation
B. domes
C. the aqueduct
D. hot water systems
4. In Republican Rome, the patrician class was made up of
A. people descended from Etruscans
B. families descended from original senators
C. merchants and peasants
D. the aristocracy
5. The "Pax Romana" refers to
A. peaceful and constructive times in the early empire
B. the economic system in the early empire
C. Roman religion in the republic
D. the political system in the late empire
6. Greek Civilization began in
A. Crete
B. Macedon
C. Mycenae
D. Athens
7. The ultimate showdown between Athens and Sparta was
A. the First Punic War
B. The Battle of Marathon
C. The Peloponnesian War
D. The Battle of Thermopylae
8. Each of the following were Roman writers in the "Golden Age of Latin" EXCEPT:
A. Ovid
B. Obiden
C. Horace
D. Virgil
9. The Greeks became a world power during the Hellenistic age under the conquests of
A. Darius
B. Alexander
C. Philip of Macedon
D. Cleanthes
10. Education in Hellenistic Greece centered around
A. the temple of Achius
B. Sparta
C. the gymnasium
D. Ephesus
11. Which of the following was NOT a famous Roman historian?
A. Tacitus
B. Suetonius
C. Livy
D. Herodotus
12. The earliest and most powerful Greek city-state was
A. Thebes
B. Sparta
C. Corinth
D. Athens
13. All of the following are topics from the literature of Homer EXCEPT:
A. the Funeral Oration
B. The Trojan War
C. sirens
D. Odysseus
14. All of the following generals received a portion of Alexander's empire EXCEPT:
A. Attalus
B. Seleucus
C. Ptolemy
D. Pergamum
15. Which of the following was NOT a social class in the later Roman Republic?
A. nobiles
B. consuls
C. optimates
D. equestrians
16. The Punic War matched Rome against
A. Egypt
B. Persians
C. Greece
D. Carthage
17. The Greek figure credited as being the father of democracy is
A. Philip
B. Alexander
C. Thucydides
D. Pericles