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This is the Greek word for "city," used to designate the independent city-states of ancient Greece.
A) polis
2. This is a type of standing male statue, always shown nude.
A) kouros
3. One of the Greek orders of architecture, elaborate and graceful in style, it features columns that have capitals decorated with volutes that look "scroll-like."
A) Ionic
4. She is Odysseus's ever-faithful wife who refuses to declare her husband dead and remarry one of her suitors.
B) Penelope
5. This term identifies a sculptural technique in which figures are carved out of a block of stone, part of which is left to form a background.
A) relief
6. He is the blind poet traditionally considered the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
B) Homer
7. This is a Greek double-reed musical instrument that is similar to the modern oboe.
B) aulos
8. He is the hero of the Odyssey, Homer's epic account of the hero's return home from the Trojan War.
C) Odysseus
9. In the Greek's war with Troy, he was the Greek's greatest warrior whose argument with Agamemnon is the subject of Homer's Iliad.
B) Achilles
10. This is the Greek term for "excessive pride."
B) hubris
11. This is the head or crowning part of a column.
B) capital
12. One of the Greek orders of architecture, simple and austere in style, it features columns that have undecorated capitals.
B) Doric
13. This statue marks the "turning point" between the late Archaic world and the early Classical world.
C) Kritios Boy
14. Which of the following was the basic political unit of ancient Greece?
A) city-state
15. According to Greek mythology, who was the king of the gods?
A) Zeus
16. According to Greek mythology, who was the wife of the king of the gods?
C) Hera
17. Who is considered the "Father of History"?
B) Herodotus
18. The ancient Greek system of religion was monotheistic.
B) False
19. In Greek sculpture, the kore is the female; the kouros is the male
A) True
20. The term

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