1st Semester HISTORY EXAM QUESTIONS, Part II

Who freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from the Persian rule? 

• Philip II
• Euclid
• Alexander the Great
• Demosthenes 

The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by performing 

• acrobatics. 
• rituals. 
• prayers. 
• dances. 

The Macedonian king who loved Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia was called 

• Alexander the Great
• Philip II
• Aeschylus 
• Homer

Homer's epic, the Iliad, is about 

• the Trojan War. 
• Alexander the Great. 
• Gilgamesh. 
• the oracle at Delphi. 

Herodotus wrote

• the Odyssey.
• the History of the Persian Wars.
• The Book of the Dead.
• Antigone. 

The Odyssey was written by 

• Sophocles
• Homer
• Euripides
• Aesop

Aristotle taught his students to follow the 

• golden rule.
• Golden Fleece.
• golden mean.
• golden times.

Modern examples of drama include 

• CDs.
• concerts. 
• movies and plays. 
• games. 

The library that attracted scholars from all over the world was located in 

• Babylon
• Rome
• Alexandria
• Thebes

The group of people that believed that the human mind could understand everything were called 

• Epicureans 
• Sophists 
• Stoics 
• philosophers