Which of the following was not a famous woman in ancient


Question 1
The Minoan civilization was discovered by
Plato
Marinatos
Schliemann
Evans

Question 2
Cyclopaean refers to
a kind of wall
a citadel
a style of painting
a group of islands

Question 3
The two gold cups from Vapheio are
none of the above
Minoan and Mycenaean
Cycladic and Minoan
Mycenaean and Cycladic

Question 4
The heroes of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey may have come from
Athens
Minoan Crete
Mycenaean Greece
Santorini

Question 5
A type of Minoan script is
cuneiform
Linear B
hieroglyphics
none of the above

Question 6
Minoan goddesses or priestesses are often depicted holding
double axes
snakes
vases
plants

Question 7
Minoan Civilization is generally dated
2500 to 1500 BC
3000 to 1100 BC
4000 to 1000 BC
3500 to 1000 BC

Question 8
A corbeled vault is
a kind of tomb
a means of transporting water
the level of windows above the central passageway to let light in from outside
concentric stone rings piled to make an arch or domed room

Question 9
Mycenaean shrines were
at the edge of the sea
on hillsides
in temples
in palaces

Question 10
Which is not a Minoan site?
Knossos
Phaistos
Mycenae
Palaikastro

Question 11
Which is not part of the Parthenon plan?
propylaea
pronaos
naos
treasury

Question 12
Chryselephantine is
decorated with gold and ivory
a colonnade
an arcade
all of the above

Question 13
Which of the following was not a famous woman in ancient Greece?
Artemisia
Iaia of Kyzikos
Sappho of Lesbos
Aspasia

Question 14
Apollo's sacred islands was
Crete
Delos
Delphi
Thera

Question 15
Alexander the Great was
a Macedonian
a Pergamene
an Athenian
a Persian

Question 16
The Parthenon metopes represented
the battle between gods and Titans
the battle between Lapiths and Centaurs
all of the above
the battle between Greeks and Trojans

Question 17
Which of the following is not a Greek god or goddess?
Artemis
Hestia
Ares
Venus

Question 18
Contrapposto is
standing at attention
a torso shift
stepping forward
a twist at the neck

Question 19
What subject was portrayed on the frieze around the Parthenon?
Dionysiac Procession
Battle of Gods and Giants
Panathenaic Procession
Labors of Herakles

Question 20
Which is not part of the Erechtheum?
the Ionic Order
an irregular plan
Doric columns
caryatids

Question 21
Architectural sculpture decorated the _____ of the Etruscan temple?
interior
sides
roof
pediment

Question 22
A popular Etruscan building material was
travertine
terracotta
tufa
concrete

Question 23
Etruscan burials included
iron objects
bronze objects
ivory objects
all of the above

Question 24
The term "Etruscan" is
Lydian
Roman
Tyrrhenian
Greek

Question 25
A necropolis is a
a city beneath sea level
an underground city
someone who likes dead people
a city of the dead

Question 26
Terracotta sarcophagi showing life sized reclining figures are most typical of the
Etruscans
republican Romans
Greeks
Sumerians

Question 27
Which is not an Etruscan material?
papyrus
terra cotta
bronze
tufa

Question 28
Etruscan art is
lively
rigid frontality and symmetry
functional
geometric

Question 29
The wall paintings in Etruscan tombs show
events from everyday life
battle scenes
scenes of female admiration of male heroism
banqueters

Question 30
The Etruscan temple differed from the Greek temple because it had
a pitched roof
a podium
exterior decoration
a columned porch

Question 31
Nero, as described by Suetonius, exemplifies
grandiosity
political know-how
military strategy
generosity

Question 32
Two streets intersecting at right angles in ancient Roman cities were the
castra and decumanus
insula and decumanus
cardo and decumanus
castra and cardo

Question 33
Hercules is the son of
Juno and Amphitryon
Alkmene and Amphitryon
Juno and Jupiter
Jupiter and Alkmene

Question 34
Which is not true of the Villa of the Mysteries frescoes?
they include details of landscape
they have a red background
the figures are naturalistic
they represent an initiation rite

Question 35
Which is true of Roman temples?
they have a front and a back porch
they were peripteral
they are pseudo-peripteral
they have a double cella

Question 36
Pompeii was destroyed in
the first century BC
AD 79
AD 121
under Nero

Question 37
The first known Roman forum dates from
the reign of Julius Caesar
the first century AD
the reign of Augustus
the 6th century BC

Question 38
In the Odyssey Landscape illustrated in this chapter
there is no landscape detail
people are hunting animals
cannibals are depicted
Laestrygonians are depicted helping Odysseus' men

Question 39
The Tophet refers to
a Punic shrine
a site of child sacrifice
a temple
a site of ritual suicide

Question 40
The Colosseum was constructed during the reign of
Vespasian
Trajan
Constantine
Nero

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