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Greek Civilization 204

Frage 1 von 78

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In Herodotus' Histories, the term historis means?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • ‘plot’ or ‘storyline’

  • ‘biography’

  • ‘diary’ or ‘notebook’

  • ‘inquiry’ or ‘investigation’

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Frage 2 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ Clouds, the conflict between palaios and kainos is between _______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a) ‘old’ and ‘new’

  • b) ‘right’ and ‘wrong’

  • c) ‘black’ and ‘white’

  • d) ‘better’ and ‘worse’

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Frage 3 von 78

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A komos is ____________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a unit of measure or moderation

  • a kind of drink

  • a group of friends or family engaging in drink and contests against rival groups.

  • furniture at a symposium

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Frage 4 von 78

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A herm is _____________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a load bearing support beam in Greek architecture

  • a type of battle ship used during the Peloponnesian War

  • the legal charge brought up against someone who parodies the Eleusinian mysteries d) a post with a head and phallus placed at doorways and crossroads

  • a post with a head and phallus placed at doorways and crossroads

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Frage 5 von 78

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In Thucydides’ description of the Peloponnesian War, stasis means __________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a ‘stealing,’ i.e., theft of public goods for private consumption

  • a ‘forgetting,’ i.e., agreeing not to seek punishment/revenge on someone

  • a ‘standing apart,’ i.e., a political faction

  • a ‘deception,’ i.e., claiming one thing in public, but doing another in private

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Frage 6 von 78

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In Plato’s Apology, the term apologia means ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • trying to talk one’s way out of a problem

  • saying “I’m sorry”

  • giving a reasonable account of what one has done

  • all of the above

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Frage 7 von 78

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What does the name ‘Pheidippides’ mean? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Strong horse

  • ‘Cheap (or Thrifty) horse’

  • ‘He who races horses’

  • ‘He who writes comedies’

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Frage 8 von 78

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What is a sophist? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • someone who questions the existence of the gods by offering scientific causes for natural phenomena

  • someone who questions traditional authority through introducing innovations in literature, science,
    education, art, and even morality

  • someone who charges students a fee to teach them how to win arguments

  • all of the above

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Frage 9 von 78

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What is tokos? _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the acropolis OR the treasury

  • the name of a character in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

  • interest earned on an investment OR a child

  • the struggle between better and worse speech

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Frage 10 von 78

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In 5th century Athens, “new” education consisted in training in _______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • rhetoric

  • scientific principles

  • how to win an argument at any cost

  • all of the above

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Frage 11 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ The Clouds, who are the Nephelai? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Nephelai = ‘Clouds,’ agents of the Greek gods sent to punish practitioners of ‘new education’

  • Nephelai = ‘Better Speech,’ the representative of the ‘old education’ trained in Homeric ideals

  • Nephelai = ‘Worse Speech,’ the representative of the ‘new education’ trained in rhetoric and tricking the
    public into doing whatever one wants them to do

  • Nephelai = ‘Creditors’ who are hunting Strepsiades down for the debt he owes

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Frage 12 von 78

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What was the Lenaea and what happened then? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • festival during winter (Jan./Feb.) celebrated with performance of comedy

  • festival during spring (March/April) celebrated with performance of tragedy

  • plague during 431/430 BCE which killed nearly 1/3 of Athenian population

  • Athenian court located at edge of city where criminals were tried for murder

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Frage 13 von 78

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What does the name ‘Lysistrata’ mean? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • ‘She who brings sorrow to the people’

  • ‘She who refuses to have sex’

  • ‘She who breaks apart the army’

  • ‘She who is the fame of her father’

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Frage 14 von 78

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Who is Kreitton Logos? ________________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • “Worse Speech” which personifies the “New Education” in Athens

  • One of the “Clouds” worshipped by Socrates in Aristophanes’ Clouds

  • a kind of religious pollution that comes from shedding human blood

  • “Better Speech” which personifies “Old-Time Morality” in Athens

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Frage 15 von 78

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What does the word hippos mean? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a ‘horse’

  • an ‘aristocrat’

  • a ‘hippopotamus’

  • someone’s ‘hip’

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Frage 16 von 78

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What does the name ‘Strepsiades’ mean? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • He who has pain in his throat’

  • '‘He who destroys the army”

  • ‘He who twists, wrestles, or tricks his opponents in court’

  • ‘Cheap (or Thrifty) horse’

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Frage 17 von 78

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Where does the name “comedy” come from? —————.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • com + edy = “eat together”

  • co + medy = “heal together”

  • come + edy = “come and eat”

  • komos + odē = “song of the group of drunken revelers”

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Frage 18 von 78

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What is the pentecontaetia in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War? ______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the fifth book of Thucydides’ History.

  • the story of the 50 years between the Persian War and the Peloponnesian War.

  • the story of the 50 year long Peloponnesian War.

  • a list of 50 names of important events in Thucydides’ History.

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Frage 19 von 78

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What is a thesaurus?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a kind of dinosaur.

  • an epic poem about Theseus. .

  • a treasury.

  • a kind of war ship.

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Frage 20 von 78

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What kind of term is stephein “to twist”?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a technical term in wrestling, metaphorically used to describe a legal defendant.

  • a technical term in archery, metaphorically used to describe a moral failure.

  • a technical term in painting, metaphorically used to describe someone’s attitude.

  • a technical term in agriculture, metaphorically used to describe someone’s fame.

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Frage 21 von 78

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Why does the Persian ruler Xerxes decide to make war against the Greeks? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • In order to achieve something as great as his father and grandfather

  • A dream told him to go to war

  • In order to avenge the wrongs the Athenians did to the Persians

  • all of the above

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Frage 22 von 78

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How many chariot teams did Alcibiades enter in the Olympic games of 415 BCE? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • five

  • three

  • nine

  • seven

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Frage 23 von 78

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Who does Herodotus identify as the original ‘cause’ of hostilities between Greece and Persia? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Themistocles

  • Alcibiades

  • Croesus

  • Xerxes

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Frage 24 von 78

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Where did Cleon and Demosthenes surround and capture hundreds of Spartan hoplites? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Decelea

  • Syracuse

  • Leontini

  • Sphacteria

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Frage 25 von 78

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On what side did Alcibiades fight during the Peloponnesian War? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the Persians

  • the Athenians

  • the Peloponnesians

  • all of the above

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Frage 26 von 78

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Why was Thucydides exiled from Athens during the Peloponnesian War? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • he was friends with Critias and the 30 Tyrants.

  • he lost during the Olympic games of 416 BCE.

  • he was rich and Athenians feared he would install himself as tyrant.

  • he failed to defend Amphipolis from the Peloponnesians.

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Frage 27 von 78

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Athens says they will help rescue Sicily from Syracuse. What were Athens’ real motives? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • to give Alcibiades a chance to prove his innocence

  • to give Alcibiades a chance to prove his innocence

  • to stop supplies from going to Sparta and increase its own empire

  • all of the above

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Frage 28 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, what was Lysistrata’s plan? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • stop sexual reproduction and thus prevent Athens from sending more children off to die in war

  • convince men to stop Peloponnesian War by not having sex with them until they make peace

  • capture the Athenian treasury and prevent the city from spending more money on the war

  • all of the above

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Frage 29 von 78

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What does Socrates think his punishment should be? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • death

  • free meals at the Prytaneium (‘city hall’) like an Olympic champion

  • a large fine: an entire year’s wages

  • exile

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Frage 30 von 78

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According to Herodotus, why were the Persians unable to defeat the Greeks? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • any empire is essentially unsustainable because of its size and the difficulties of resupply

  • Greeks were a “hard” nation; Persians were a “soft” nation

  • the Persian leaders angered the gods with their hubris and were destined to suffer a tragic fall

  • all of the above

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Frage 31 von 78

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At what battle did both Cleon and Brasidas die? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Amphipolis

  • Delium

  • Sphacteria

  • Sicily

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Frage 32 von 78

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Why was Alcibiades brought to trial in Athens in 414 BCE? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • mocking the ritual of the Eleusinian mysteries

  • he was rich and Athenians feared he would install himself as tyrant

  • breaking phalluses off herm statues

  • all of the above

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Frage 33 von 78

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At the battle of Marathon, Darius’ army tried to reinstall _______________ as tyrant of Athens

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Alcibiades

  • Peisistratus

  • Hipparchus

  • Hippias

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Frage 34 von 78

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At the battle of Delium, who did Socrates save? —————.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Cleon

  • Thucydides

  • Alcibiades

  • all of the above.

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Frage 35 von 78

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What were the three complaints Corinth brought to the Peloponnesian League to make war on Athens? ______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Athens’ involvement in Corinth’s business at Corcyra, Potidaea, and Megara.

  • Athens’ attacks against Corinth’s colonies Mytilene, Amphipolis, and Melos.

  • Slanderous comments made about Cleon in two plays by Aristophanes.

  • Athens’ attitude toward Corinth, Thebes, and Sparta.

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Frage 36 von 78

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Why did Thucydides think Pericles was such an effective leader? _______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • his policy of “moderate empire”

  • his ability to “lead” the people, not “be led” by them

  • his incorruptible morality

  • all of the above

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Frage 37 von 78

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his ability to “lead” the people, not “be led” by them

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the disaster of Athens at Sicily in 413 BCE.

  • the Spartans’ surrender at the battle at Sphacteria in 425 BCE.

  • the Corinthian alliance with Argos during the Peace of Nicias.

  • Alcibiades’ defection to the Peloponnesian League to avoid trial in Athens in 415 BCE.

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Frage 38 von 78

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With the advice of Alcibiades, Sparta builds a fort at _________ that is extremely effective against Athens.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Pylos

  • Plataes

  • Potidaea

  • Decelea

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Frage 39 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ Clouds, Strepsiades finds Socrates in the “Thinkery” doing what? —————.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • being suspended in the air in a mēchanē.

  • being wheeled out on stage on an ekkuklema.

  • lecturing his students while standing on a bēma.

  • offering sacrifice to the gods by pouring liquid into a bothros.

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Frage 40 von 78

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Why was Sparta willing to make peace with Athens after the battle at Amphipolis in 421 BCE?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Sparta wanted the hostages captured at Sphacteria returned.

  • Sparta afraid of Athens’ influence on Messenians from the outpost at Pylos.

  • Sparta afraid about expiration of 30-year peace treaty with its hostile neighbor Argos.

  • all of the above

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Frage 41 von 78

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In Plato’s Apology Socrates claims that he can’t have intentionally corrupted the youth because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • corrupting the youth would make them harmful to Socrates himself, and nobody would willingly do that!

  • corrupting the youth would undermine traditional Greek morality.

  • corrupting the youth would make them stop paying Socrates for his professional teaching services.

  • all of the above

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Frage 42 von 78

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In Plato’s Apology Socrates claims that he can’t both be an atheist and worship “new” gods because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • this is an ad hominem attack by his accusers.

  • this is an ad hominem attack by his accusers.

  • this is an example of post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning.

  • this is a contradiction in terms.

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Frage 43 von 78

1

Socrates accepts his death sentence because he thinks:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • death does not destroy the soul, but frees it from the body (a distraction).

  • death is nothing but sweet, endless, dreamless sleep.

  • death is an opportunity to visit with the souls of famous heroes in the underworld.

  • all of the above

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Frage 44 von 78

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Socrates claims that he questions people in the agora because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • he needs the money.

  • he likes meeting new people and making friends.

  • he is trying to prove that the god Apollo is correct.

  • he is trying to corrupt the youth.

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Frage 45 von 78

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Socrates explains that he has a daimon that tells him __________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • who to kill.

  • what horse to bet on in the race.

  • yes” when he is saying something that is true.

  • “no” when he is saying something that is false.

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Frage 46 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ Clouds Strepsiades is afraid of the moon because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • he is afraid of werewolves when the moon is full.

  • the new moon signals the monthly interest due on his debts.

  • the new moon signals the power of witchcraft.

  • the waning moon reminds him of his mortality.

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Frage 47 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ Clouds Strepsiades is in debt because of _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • his son’s thrifty nature

  • his wife’s luxurious nature

  • the cost of his son’s education

  • all of the above

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Frage 48 von 78

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In Aristophanes’ Clouds Pheidippides explains that it is morally correct for him to beat his father because ____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Strepsiades is trying to cheat on his taxes.

  • Strepsiades dishonored his mother by marrying a woman from Egypt.

  • parents beat children to make them better and old age is a second childhood.

  • the rule of the world is that the mighty do what they want and the weak must suffer it.

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Frage 49 von 78

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Aristophanes’ Lysistrata can be considered “conservative” because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • at the end, the women climb down from the acropolis and return to their “traditional” roles as wives and
    mothers

    c) at the end, women remain in control of the city’s finances
    d) at the end, Aristophanes won first place in the poetic competition.

  • at the end, the men continue fighting.

  • at the end, women remain in control of the city’s finances

  • at the end, Aristophanes won first place in the poetic competition.

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Frage 50 von 78

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Socrates was probably put to death because of _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • corrupting the youth

  • not believing in the gods of the Athenians

  • his uncompromising morals and habit of making Athenians feel guilty

  • his friendship and involvement with Critias and other members of the 30 Tyrants

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Frage 51 von 78

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What does the contrast of demos vs. domos refer to?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • public vs. private spheres

  • abroad vs. domestic locations

  • comic vs. tragic plays

  • men vs. women

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Frage 52 von 78

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Who is NOT an accuser of Socrates?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Anytus

  • Hippolytus

  • Meletus

  • Lycon

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Frage 53 von 78

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What does metoikos mean?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • charioteer

  • sea merchant

  • city coordinator

  • resident alien

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Frage 54 von 78

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How large was an Athenian jury of the court?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 10-12

  • 50-212

  • 415-1,001

  • 501-2,000

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Frage 55 von 78

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How large was an Athenian jury of the court?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the theater of Dionysus

  • Pyrtaneion

  • a symposium

  • Aegospotami

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Frage 56 von 78

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The Spartan war strategy is:

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • An all-in frontal attack.

  • A sneak-in surprise attack during the night.

  • To starve them out by destroying crops and blocking imports.

  • Spartans are too busy partying to fight.

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Frage 57 von 78

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How long did the “30 Year” peace treaty between Athens and Sparta actually last?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • 5 years

  • 14 years

  • 23 years

  • 30 years

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Frage 58 von 78

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How does Socrates prove himself to be the wisest of all men? a

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • points out his pricey education.

  • Admits his ignorance.

  • Requests his students speak in his defense.

  • Recites the Iliad and Odyssey to the jury.

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Frage 59 von 78

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What is a Greek comedic play?

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • A safe opportunity for the common man to question politics and criticize the majority culture.

  • A funny display of impromptu jokes and gestures on stage.

  • A scripted play solely meant for entertainment and a demonstration of the playwright's mastery over
    irony.

  • A circus-like show that has acrobatics and little or no plot or storyline dictating the actors’ movements.

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Frage 60 von 78

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The social reversal seen in Aristophanes’s Lysistrata is: a) Lower class become the elite.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Lower class become the elite.

  • Women become politically dominant over men.

  • Foot soldiers command more respect than the Equites.

  • Slaves not only participate in, but also contribute to the upper class.

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Frage 61 von 78

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Passage #1
“For our part, we will not make a long speech no one would believe, full of fine moral arguments—that our empire is justified because we defeated the Persians, or that we are coming against you for an injustice you have done to us. And we don’t want you to think you can persuade us by saying that you did not fight on the side of the Lacedaemonians in the war, though you were their colony, or that you have done us no injustice. Instead, let’s work out what we can do on the basis of what both sides truly accept: we both know that decisions about justice are made in human discussions only when both sides are under equal compulsion; but when one side is stronger, it gets as much as it can, and the weak must accept that.”

Identify where this passage comes from: ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes

  • Plato’s Apology of Socrates

  • Herodotus’ Histories

  • Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War

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Frage 62 von 78

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Who is speaking to whom? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Socrates to his jury

  • Ambassadors of Persia to ambassadors of Athens

  • Ambassadors of Athens to ambassadors of Melos

  • Sparta to its allies

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Frage 63 von 78

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What is the speaker’s main point in this passage? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the addressee is a colony of Lacedaemonia

  • defeating Persia gives the speakers the right to ask for whatever they want

  • the following speeches will be full of “fine moral arguments”

  • justice (i.e., doing what is ‘right’ or ‘fair’) is the rule of the weak; the rule of the strong is to take
    whatever one wants

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Frage 64 von 78

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Why does the author of the work include this passage in the text? ______________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • author was eyewitness—this is what was really said

  • author is professional speech-writer and is just showing off his skill

  • author invents this speech so as to characterize the moral position of the speaker/speaker’s city

  • author thinks speaker’s arguments are ‘morally’ correct, and he wants his readers to know it

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Frage 65 von 78

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In this text, the speaker believes in the general principle ______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • a) good things come to those who wait.

  • might makes right.

  • know thyself and nothing in excess.

  • the good guys always come out ahead in the end.

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Frage 66 von 78

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In this text, the addressee believes he will be saved because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • he believes in the immortality of the soul and is not afraid of death.

  • he believes the underdog will win.

  • he believe Athens will be merciful towards him

  • he believes Sparta will save him.

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Frage 67 von 78

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What happens as a result of this speech in the text? ________.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • addressee is saved by last minute rescue mission of Lacedaemonians

  • speaker’s army destroys city of the addressee, kills the men and enslaves the women & children

  • speaker and addressee forge bonds of close friendship

  • addressee surrenders to speaker and hands over large amounts of money

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Frage 68 von 78

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“For their part the Greeks, knowing that their fate was sealed by those who were coming over the mountain, fought with reckless fury, exerting every ounce of strength against the enemy. By this time, most of them had had their spears broken and were hewing down the Persians with their swords. It was at this crisis that Leonidas fell, after showing exceptional courage, and with him many notable Spartans whose names, together with the names of all three hundred, I have taken care to learn, they being men of great worth.”

Where does this passage come from? ______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Aristophanes’ Clouds

  • Herodotus’ Histories

  • Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War

  • Lysias’ On the Murder of Eratosthenes

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Frage 69 von 78

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What is the author describing here? _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the battle at Plataea

  • the battle at Marathon

  • the battle at Sicily

  • the battle at Thermopylae

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Frage 70 von 78

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What happened in this battle that made it so famous? _______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the Spartans, Athenians, and Plataeans defeated the remnants of Xerxes’ great Persian army

  • the Athenians held off Persian invaders almost single-handedly

  • more than 300 Spartans and other Greeks lost their lives holding off a much larger Persian army for
    several days

  • in the aftermath, Socrates proves himself a heroic fighter and saved Alcibiades’ life

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Frage 71 von 78

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Why does the author include this episode in his narrative? ____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • author thinks this episode represents the character of a free state vs. subject state

  • author thinks this episode is a major event that changes the outcome of the war he is describing

  • author thinks this episode represents the national character of the two opposing sides

  • all of the above

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Frage 72 von 78

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By saying that he has taken care to learn “the names of all three hundred,” what is the author doing? _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • being thankful that he didn’t have to memorize more names

  • likening himself to Homer who commemorates the heroic actions of brave men who died young in battle

  • lying to his audience, since he does not go on to list the 300 names

  • trying to make us feel guilty for not memorizing the 300 names ourselves

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Frage 73 von 78

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What happened as a result of the events described here? ____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the Greeks came together to resist the Persian invasion as a single nation.

  • Athens continued its policy of “moderate empire.”

  • the author’s book became a best-seller.

  • Aeschylus made the event into a tragedy produced at Athens.

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Frage 74 von 78

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A modern statue of Leonidas in Sparta bears the inscription molon labe which means _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • “tonight we dine in hell!”

  • “this is Sparta!”

  • “come and get it!”

  • “even gods can bleed!”

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Frage 75 von 78

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The Greeks chose to fight the Persians in this location because ______.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • it was narrow and would work against the Persian army’s superior size.

  • it was hot and would work against the Persian army’s sensitivity to temperature.

  • it was dark and the Persians were not familiar with the territory.

  • it was close to silver mines and the Greeks wanted to protect those.

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Frage 76 von 78

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Passage #5
“But the greatest misery of all was the dejection of mind in those who found themselves beginning to be sick, for as soon as they made up their minds it was hopeless, they gave up and made much less resistance to the disease. Another misery was their dying like sheep, as they became infected by caring for one another; and this brought about the greatest mortality. For if people held back from visiting each other through fear, then they died in neglect, and many houses were emptied because there was no one to provide care. If they did visit each other, they died, and these were mainly the ones who made some pretense to virtue. For these people would have been ashamed to spare themselves, and so they went into their friends’ houses, especially at the end, when even family members, worn out by the lamentations of the dying, were overwhelmed by the greatness of the calamity. ... The present affliction was aggravated by the crowding of country folk into the city, which was especially unpleasant for those who came in. They had no houses, and because they were living in shelters that were stifling in the summer, their mortality was out of control.”

What text does this passage come from? _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • Herodotus’ Histories

  • Plato’s Apology

  • Clouds

  • Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War

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Frage 77 von 78

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What event is being described in this passage? ____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • the Corcyrean Revolution

  • the battle at Thermopylae

  • the plague at Athens

  • the destruction of Melos

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Frage 78 von 78

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The author takes special care describing this event because _____.

Wähle eine der folgenden:

  • he was trained in the “new education” system which included study of medicine.

  • he is trying to entertain his readers with tales of the macabre.

  • he thinks the events described here represent the cruelty of the Spartans.

  • all of the above

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