Greek Culture & Art quiz

1. The Ottoman Empire had a significant influence on Greek culture.

a) true b) false

2. Greeks today tend to regard the years before the Revolution, ___________, in which culturual development was perceived to have halted completely.

a) "years of glory" b) "years of darkness" c) "years of misery" d) "the black years"

3. Greek culture regards the ____________ approach.

a) "eye for an eye" b) "live for today" c) "live and let live" d) "live for tomorrow"

4. Only a minor assortment of ancient Greek art has survived.

a) true b) false

5. The Greek language has a total of ____ million speakers worldwide.

a) 12 b) 10 c) 23 d) 15

6. In the modern era, Greeks continue to contribute to the field(s) of--

a) science b) mathematics c) philosophy d) all of the above

7. Which is not one of Greek culuture's four main art forms?

a) story telling b) sculpture c) painting d) pottery

8. There are 3 scholarly distinctions of ancient Greek art: archaic, classical & Hellenistic.

a) true b)false

9. Greek painters worked mainly on ________.

a) paper b) wooden panels c) cave walls d) glass

10. Many ancient marble sculptures were burned to form lime in the Middle Ages.

a) true b) false.

Statue of a kouros (youth) 590–580 B.C.; ArchaicGreek, Attic Naxian marble;
The Greeks learned to quarry stone and plan the execution of large-scale statues from the Egyptians, who had been working very hard stones for centuries. This noble figure of a youth is one of the earliest freestanding marble statues from Attica, the region around Athens. It is a type of sculpture known as a kouros (male youth), characteristically depicted nude with the left leg striding forward and hands clenched at the side. Most kouroi were made in the archaic period, between the late seventh and early fifth centuries B.C., and are believed to have served as grave markers or as dedications.

The Parthenon is a Doric peripteral temple, which means that it consists of a rectangular floor plan with a series of low steps on every side, and a colonnade of Doric columns extending around the periphery of the entire structure. Each entrance has an additional six columns in front of it. It was built to replace two earlier temples of Athena on the Acropolis. One of these, of which almost no trace remains today, stood south of the Parthenon (between the Parthenon and the Erechtheum). The other, which was still being built at the time of the Persian sack in 480, was on the same spot as the Parthenon. We know the names of the architects (Iktinos and Kallikrates) and also of the sculptor (Pheidias) who made the massive chryselephantine cult statue of the goddess.