CLASSICS 181 QUIZ 4 2020:
Map Test
Part One, Map Test. Identify the numbered items on the TWO maps provided by the most appropriate answers given below (ALL ITEMS 2 pts each).
1 a. Dunhuang b. Guangzhou, c. Louyang d. Taxila
2 a. Chang’an b. Minyue, c. Pataliputra, d. Turpan
3 a. Arikamedu b. Shule, c. Anyang, d. Dunhuang
4 a. Taxila, b. Hotan, c. Chang’an d. Pataliputra
5 a. Mohenjo Daro b. Taxila, c. Shule, d. Hotan
6 a. Alexandria, b. Antioch, c. Pergamum, d. Sardis
7 a. Memphis, b. Sidon, c. Rhodes, d. Alexandria
8 a. Samos, b. Sparta, c. Rhodes, d. Cyprus
9 a. Pergamum, b. Gordium, c. Pella, d. Antioch
10 a. Pergamum, b. Thebes, c. Miletus, d. Pella
PART TWO: MULTIPLE CHOICE. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WITH THE MOST APPROPRIATE ANSWER FROM THE TEXTBOOK AND IMAGE MATERIALS
11. Because of the oaths sworn on the Sacred Mount, the persons of ______ were sacrosanct, or “inviolable”, that is, they could not be touched. Through personal inviolability these magistrates could extend their protection to ordinary Roman citizens merely by placing their hand on them and asserting their auxilium or help. A. consuls, b. aediles, c. praetors, d. tribunes.
12. _____ was cruel and ruthless tyrant, determined to exploit the full laboring potential of the Chinese population in pursuit of his grandiose scheme for world domination. By relying on brute force and cold administrative efficiency, he successfully transformed China from a cluster of squabbling feudal states into a unified bureaucratic empire. A. Pan Chao, b. Ch’in Shih Huangdi, c. Kung Fu Tzu, d. Lao Tzu
13. _____ were expensive, “high class call women” who performed sexual favors but were equally trained in music, dance, and rhetoric. a. hoplites, b. hetairai, c. sophists, d. helots.
14. During the _____ Era, internecine warfare became the order of the day in China. Power bases became solidified at the regional level as the number of existing states was gradually reduced by civil wars from approximately 1000 in 1026 BC to 100 in 771, from 100 to 14 by 480 BC, and from 14 to 1 by 226 BC. A. Shia Dynasty, b. Tang Dynasty, c. Warring States, d. Ch’in Dynasty.
15. _____ represented the temporary restoration of royal authority at Rome. Appointed for 6 months they held imperium both inside and outside the city and imposed martial law on the state by suspending all other elected magistracies and by ruling through appointed subordinates. a. censors, b. consuls, c. praetors, d. dictators.
16. To the Chinese _____ humans were naturally evil, partial, bent on evil, corrupt, rebellious, and disorderly. The role of the state was to direct them to proper behavior through the codification of law and the exaction of severe punishment. A. Mohists, b. Taoists, c. Confucianists, d. Legalists.
17. _____ represented the power of life and death over everyone outside the walls of Rome or the right to command armies. It was based on the religious authority of a general to take the auspices. a. clementia, b. sacrosanctitas, c. auctoritas, d. imperium
18. The Zhou Dynasty introduced the concept of ______, that is, that the support of T’ien could be conferred on any family that was morally worthy of the task and that royal power in China was transferable under the proper religious circumstances. A. jen, b. Mandate of Heaven, c. wet rice agriculture, d. Taoism
19. Recent scholars have observed that the expansion of Chinese territory into nomad territories actually compelled neighboring pastoralists to forge larger, stronger confederacies. By the time of the Ch’in dynasty (226-202 BC), these amalgamated confederacies were dominated by the emperor and supreme council of the _________. As raiding along the borders of the Chinese states accelerated, the exposed principalities responded by constructing extensive perimeters of earthen barriers along the newly claimed frontiers. These defenses would eventually develop into the Great Wall of the Ch’in and Han dynasties. A. Bactrians, b. Hsiung Nu, c. Manchu, d. Khmer
20. Unlike urban settlement patterns in the West, in Bronze Age China settlements were organized according to _____, elite enclosures (fortified precincts) surrounded by a scattering of workshops and artisan villages. The remains of the enclosures demonstrated that they were constructed typically of pounded earth through the use of wood framing. A. agora, b. city states, c. palace economies, d. urban clusters
21. In Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata and her following barricaded themselves inside the: a. Athenian Acropolis, b. Parthenon, c. Athenian Agora, d. in their homes.
22. _____ was founded in 301 BC by one of Alexander the Great’s successors, a general who campaigned with him all the way to India and back. Its capital city, Alexandria, boasted a population of 1 million, the mausoleum of Alexander himself, the world’s greatest library, and the Museion, a “think tank” where the world’s greatest scholars, including Archimedes, conducted their research. A. Seleucid Syria, B. Attalid Pergamum, C. Ptolemaic Egypt, D. Antigonid Macedonia.
23. To recruit gentry scholars into the government, the _____ successfully promoted principles of Confucianism as tenets of its regime. Implementation of the state examination process guaranteed a steady stream of Confucian or educated gentlemen into the cadres of the imperial bureaucracy. A. Zhou Dynasty, b. Ch’in Dynasty, c. Han Dynasty, d. Shang Dynasty
24. _______ propounded a belief in the equality of all races of people and in the benevolent dominion of a father-god. Their philosophy stressed accepting one’s lot in life without complaint and pursuing emotional self control. a. the Stoics, b. the Presocratics, c. the Cynics.
IMAGE QUESTIONS
25. The artifacts presented in IMAGE 1 belong to which Classical culture: a. Archaic Greece, b. Classical Athens, c. Bronze Age China, d. Early Roman Empire
26. IMAGE 2 illustrates which city? A. Pergamum, b. Antioch, c. Chang’an, d. Alexandria
27. Identify the artifacts in IMAGE 3: a. statue of Chandragupta, b. terracotta warriors of Chin Shih Huangdi, c. statues representing the rulers of the Zhou Dynasty, d. statuettes of Chinese Buddhist monks who visited Taxila
28. Image 4 was a “split-level” construction, with two floors in the main part of the house and two additional floors in terrace construction directly behind. The double storied interior peristyle allowed indirect sunlight and air circulation throughout the building while the absence of exterior windows repelled the heat of the sun. a. Temple of Asclepius at Epidauros, b. the Areopagus of Athens, c. the Altar of Zeus at Pergamum, d. the House of the Herms at Delos.
29. Image 5 is which following monument: a. the Athenian Agora, b. the Parthenon, c. the Erechtheion, d. the Propylea.
30. The building exhibited in IMAGE 6 is a. a bath, b. a stadium, c. a council house, d. a basilica
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