Midterm 1

Question 1

What civilization/time period did these works come from?

• Palace of Knossos
• Narmer Palette
• Funerary Mask
• Venus of Willendorf
• Victory Stele or Naram-Sim
• Harpist Figure

Answer 1

• Minoan
• Egyptian
• Mycenaean
• Prehistoric
• Mesopotamian

Question 2

What was the most common medium of the prehistoric art of the Cyclades islands?

Answer 2

Marble figurines

Question 3

What distinctive artistic artificers have been recovered from Jericho?

Answer 3

Restored skulls

Question 4

The statue of Khafre is an example of

Answer 4

Canon of Proportions

Question 5

What kind of masonry does the Lion’s Gate employ?

Answer 5

Cyclopean masonry

Question 6

Which king is credited with creating the babylonian legal code?

Answer 6

Hammurabi

Question 7

Who was the first great architect known to history?

Answer 7

Imhotep

Question 8

Which culture combined humans and animal features into one mythological creature?

Answer 8

Egyptian

Question 9

Which civilization produced the Snake Goddess?

Answer 9

Minoan

Question 10

What development during the Neolithic period made possible the growth of communities and villages?

Answer 10

Agriculture

Question 11

What have archaeologists posited that the purpose of Stonehenge was?

Answer 11

Solar calendar/observatory

Question 12

A tholos is a burial chamber in the shape of a

Answer 12

Beehive

Question 13

What architect created the step pyramid of Djoser?

Answer 13

Imhotep

Question 14

What civilization conquered the Hebrew people in 63 BCE?

Answer 14

Rome

Question 15

What term means belief in one God?

Answer 15

Monotheism

Question 16

The Hebrews’ deliverance from slavery in Egypt is know as

Answer 16

the Exodus

Question 17

Which is true of the Biblical account of creation?

Answer 17

• Humans are created last
• God exists before the earth
• Humans have dominion over all other creations
• God observes that each part is good

Question 18

How is the Hebrew bible divided?

Answer 18

The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings

Question 19

What question does the book of Job deal with?

Answer 19

Why do bad things happen to good people?

Question 20

In the Garden of Eden, God commands Adam and Eve to

Answer 20

eat from any tree except the tree of knowledge

Question 21

What was Abraham’s test of faith?

Answer 21

To sacrifice his son Isaac

Question 22

At the end of the book of Jonah,

Answer 22

Jonah is upset that the Ninevites are not destroyed, but God teaches him compassion

Question 23

What is the first thing Noah does after leaving the ark?

Answer 23

Builds an altar and gives burnt offerings

Question 24

What is the end outcome for Job?

Answer 24

His health and all of his household are restored (and increased)

Question 25

What is the meaning of the Hebrew word messiah?

Answer 25

The annointed one

Question 26

Covenant

Answer 26

Agreement between God and man “I will be your God, you will be my people”

Question 27

Decalogue

Answer 27

The 10 commandments

Question 28

Septaguint

Answer 28

An ancient greek version of the Hebrew bible, includes some books not commonly in today’s cannon

Question 29

Cella

Answer 29

Small inner room of a Greek temple which housed a statue of the god/goddess the temple was dedicated to

Question 30

Krater

Answer 30

Wide-mouthed ceramic vessel used for mixing wine and water (ex. Geometric krater from Dibylon cemetery)

Question 31

Meander

Answer 31

A continuous band of interlocking geometric designs, maze-like pattern (Geometric style pottery)

Question 32

Relief

Answer 32

Sculpture in which figures project from background they were carved from

Question 33

Epithet

Answer 33

A descriptive word or phrase that refers to a particular quality in a person or thing

Question 34

Ethos

Answer 34

The idea that unique sounds of musical modes was reflective of the tribes for which the modes were named

Question 35

Registers

Answer 35

Divisions in pottery telling a story or showing multiple images

Question 37

who was the first Greek woman to leave a literary record of her personal feelings?

Answer 37

Sappho

Question 38

What characterizes early Greek music?

Answer 38

Monophonic, made up of singular melodies

Question 39

What two opposing aspects of Greek civilization were represented by Apollo and Dionysus?

Answer 39

Logic and emotion

Question 40

What foreign enemy did the Greek city-states unite together to defeat at the end of the Archaic period?

Answer 40

Persia

Question 41

Orientalizing Style

Answer 41

Greek art adopted many motifs from eastern civilizations like mesopotamia, and egypt during the age of colonization (ex. fantastic beasts, human-animal blends)

Question 42

Why was Corinth so successful during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE?

Answer 42

Pottery exports

Question 43

How did their system of beliefs serve the Greeks?

Answer 43

Helped them to understand their own lives

Question 44

Who carved the Spear Bearer?

Answer 44

Polyclitus

Question 45

Who carved Hermes carrying the Infant Dionysus?

Answer 45

Praxiteles

Question 46

Who carved Aphrodite at Cnidus?

Answer 46

Praxiteles

Question 47

Who carved Laocoön and His Sons?

Answer 47

Athenadorus, Agesander, and Polydorus of Rhodes

Question 48

Who were the architects of the parthenon?

Answer 48

Ictinus and Callicrates

Question 49

What were the centers of Greek art and learning in the Hellenistic Period?

Answer 49

Alexandria, Pergamum, and Antioch

Question 50

What does the word "Hellenized" or "Hellenistic" mean?

Answer 50

The expanse of the Greek-influenced world before Cleopatra dies

Question 51

What does peripteral mean?

Answer 51

(Single) columns on all sides

Question 52

What is the Erechtheum?

Answer 52

Built at the Acropolis in Athens to commemorate numerous religious events and honor several deities, built on uneven ground which required creative solutions to architectural problems

Question 53

What was the cause of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 53

Athens's use of the Delian League's treasury

Question 54

Into which empire were the Hellenistic cities absorbed?

Answer 54

The Roman

Question 55

To whom was the Parthenon dedicated?

Answer 55

Athena

Question 56

What story was told by the Laocoön sculpture?

Answer 56

A trojan priest and his sons being strangled by sea serpents for trying to warn the trojans about the greek's wooden horse

Question 57

Who wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 57

Thucydides

Question 58

What accounts for the powerful position of Athens during the first half of the Classical period?

Answer 58

Athens's role in defeating the Persians

Question 59

Which of the following subjects (each representative of the triumph of civilization and order over chaos) is not depicted in the carved metopes of the Parthenon?

Answer 59

X the Greeks and the Amazons X the gods and the giants NO the Attalids and the Gauls (carved in the altar of Zeus in Pergamum) X the Lapiths and the centaurs

Question 60

Who wrote The Oresteia Trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)?

Answer 60

Aeschylus

Question 61

Who wrote The Suppliant Women?

Answer 61

Euripides

Question 62

Who wrote Lysistrata?

Answer 62

Aristophanes

Question 63

Who wrote Antigone?

Answer 63

Sophocles

Question 64

Who wrote Oedipus the King?

Answer 64

Sophocles

Question 65

Oedipus is initially prompted to investigate the death of the previous king because of ________.

Answer 65

The oracle of Apollo

Question 66

In Oedipus the King, the chorus’s final lines say ________.

Answer 66

not to call anyone happy until he or she is dead

Question 67

How did Oedipus come to be the king of Thebes?

Answer 67

He freed the city from a sphinx

Question 68

When Oedipus was born, ________.

Answer 68

His ankles were fastened together and he was left to die

Question 69

Oedipus left Corinth in order to

Answer 69

avoid his fate

Question 70

When Jocasta learns the truth about Oedipus’s parentage

Answer 70

she kills herself

Question 71

Who wrote plays of comedic escapism, including Lysistrata?

Answer 71

Aristophanes

Question 72

Where were ancient Greek plays performed?

Answer 72

Dionysian festivals

Question 73

Who was the greatest ancient Greek author of comedy plays?

Answer 73

Aristophanes

Question 74

What two emotions did Aristotle say a tragedy should make the audience feel?

Answer 74

Fear and pity

Question 75

When Oedipus visits the oracle at Delphi,

Answer 75

he learns that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother.

Question 76

What was the relationship between religion and theater in Classical Greece?

Answer 76

Theater was considered to be a religious ritual.

Question 77

Determine whether the following characteristics are positive or negative in terms of achieving happiness according to Aristotle.

Answer 77

poverty - education + old age + having children + focus on a single area of knowledge - impulse -

Question 78

Why doesn’t Aristotle think that we need to wait until someone is safely dead to call him or her happy?

Answer 78

Happiness is a kind of activity.

Question 79

From the reading in Culture and Values, what is an important concept that Aristotle developed regarding tragedy?

Answer 79

Catharsis

Question 80

Why does Aristotle say that children can’t be called happy?

Answer 80

They cannot yet act rationally in accordance with virtue.

Question 81

Aristotle criticizes Plato’s notion of the absolute good because ________.

Answer 81

he doesn’t see how the abstract notion would help people live any better

Question 82

What is the function or purpose of human beings, according to Aristotle?

Answer 82

Reason

Question 83

Among the older prejudices that Socrates says are the true reason that he is on trial, Socrates lists

Answer 83

that he is a busybody

Question 84

If you wanted to read Socrates’ writings, which would you choose?

Answer 84

The Oresteia Trilogy The Poetics and Nichomachean Ethics X None of the these choices The Republic

Question 85

How does Socrates envision spending time in the afterlife?

Answer 85

Continuing to question people

Question 86

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shackles definitely do NOT represent which of the following?

Answer 86

X Wisdom Ways to accomplish wealth Status Material Goods

Question 87

In speaking with the poets, Socrates concludes

Answer 87

that the poets compose by inspiration, not skill and knowledge.

Question 88

Aristotle’s most influential teacher was who?

Answer 88

Plato

Question 89

When discussing whether the threat of death should make him change his ways, Socrates mentions the example of

Answer 89

Achilles