The Hellenistic World Discussion Questions

The Hellenistic World Discussion Questions
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The Hellenistic World Discussion Questions
1. The occupation of Jerusalem by Antiochus IV led to a Jewish revolt
that is celebrated today in the Jewish holiday of
(A) Rosh Hashanah
(B) Hanukkah
(C) Yom Kippur
(D) the Sabbath
(E) Passover
2. All of the following are true of Alexander the Great EXCEPT that
(A) he led a combined Macedonian and Greek army against Persia
(B) he wanted to receive the same honors as a god
(C) he modeled himself on Achilles, the hero of Homer’s Iliad
(D) his soldiers were intensely loyal and would follow him anywhere
(E) he spread Greek colonists and culture through ancient
southwestern Asia
3. Alexander the Great smashed Darius III and ended the Persian
(Achaemenid) Empire at the battle of
(A) Gaugamela (Arbela)
(B) Ipsus
(C) Chaeronea
(D) Issus
(E) Thymbra (Sardis)
4. In The Republic, Plato wrote about
(A) a system for international peace
(B) the importance of monotheism for a successful city-state
(C) ideal forms of government
(D) why poets should play an important role in a city-state’s
government
(E) why people should avoid caves
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5. The Diadochi were
(A) an informal group of realistic Hellenistic sculptors
(B) peripatetic philosophers
(C) rival successors to Alexander the Great
(D) the dynasty of Macedonian kings that succeeded Alexander
(E) the advisers to Mithradites who helped created the kingdom
of Pontus
6. After the Peloponnesian War, Athens’s economy slowly revived because
of trade and
(A) a production boom in the silver mines
(B) plunder taken from military expeditions
(C) the production of goods in homes and small shops
(D) the return of soldiers from the war
(E) the destruction of the Long Walls in 393 BCE
7. The influence of Greek culture during the Hellenistic period was strongest
among
(A) urban populations in Egypt and southwestern Asia
(B) farmers in the Persian countryside
(C) the Romans
(D) the people of western India
(E) merchants in North Africa and southern Europe
118. Aristotle’s followers were known as
(A) Sophists
(B) Republicans
(C) Peripatetics
(D) Academicians
(E) Stoics
9. All of the following are true of Stoicism EXCEPT that
(A) its followers believed human actions had meaning if taken
in the pursuit of virtue
(B) its followers believed politics were incompatible with virtue
(C) its followers believed fate controlled everything
(D) it was founded by Zeno of Citium
(E) its philosophy advocated equal citizenship for women
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10. Menander is famous as
(A) one of the greatest writers of Greek tragedies
(B) the man who moved Hellenistic sculpture to a more emotional
perspective
(C) the best-known representative of Athenian New Comedy
(D) the originator of the idea of philosophical materialism
(E) the ingenious architect who laid out the street plan for Alexandria,
Egypt
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