Greecequizchap6,Sec3_4
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This Quiz tests your knowledge on important concepts in Chapter 6, sections 3 and 4 of your Holt World History text.
- 1.All are TRUE about Macedonia in the 4th century B.C. EXCEPT
- A.
It was located in the north of Greece
- B.
People lived in villages and were war-like
- C.
Nobles had power
- D.
It was a democracy in which people voted
- 2.All are TRUE of Philip of Macedon EXCEPT
- A.
He had been a Greek prisoner
- B.
He hated Greek culture
- C.
He had a large and well-disciplined army
- D.
He gained colonies once belonging to Athens
- E.
He did not succeed in his planned invasion of Persia
- 3.Alexander the Great's Greek tutor was
- A.
Socrates
- B.
Plato
- C.
Crito
- D.
Aristotle
- 4.Alexander the Great's main military and political goal was
- A.
To bring ultimate destruction to the Persian Empire
- B.
To conquer all of Greece
- C.
To create a unified world under his rule and living with Greek-like culture
- D.
To be better than his father at conquering
- 5.The term "Hellenistic" means
- A.
"Greek"
- B.
"Greek-like", with influences from Asia and the Mediterranean
- C.
"like Helen of Sparta"
- D.
"superior"
- 6.All philosophical belief that the aim of life is to avoid pain and seek pleasure is part of
- A.
Epicureanism
- B.
Stoicism
- C.
Cynicism
- D.
Skepticism
- 7.Probably the greatest mathematician of the Hellenistic period, who calculated pi, was
- A.
Euclid
- B.
Pythagorus
- C.
Aristarchus
- D.
Archimedes
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