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The Byzantine Empire – Quiz
Directions: Select the best possible answer from the given options.
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ANSWER KEY
1. What city served as the capital of the Byzantine
Empire?
Empire circa 1300?
a. Adrianople
a. Eastern Orthodoxy
b. Ankara
b. Hasidic Judaism
c. Constantinople
c. Roman Catholicism
d. Nicodemia
d. Shi’ite Islam
2. Which of the following modern countries was not
part of the Byzantine Empire?
7. The city of Constantinople is now called
__________.
a. Bulgaria
a. Athens
b. Egypt
b. Byzantium
c. France
c. Istanbul
d. Germany
d. Sarajevo
3. What Eastern Roman emperor assumed the
throne in 527 C.E.?
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6. What was the state religion of the Eastern Roman
8. Which of the following was not a Byzantine
invention?
a. Anastasius I
a. cannon
b. Justinian I
b. flamethrower
c. Romulus Augustus
c. grenade
d. Theodoric the Great
d. hand-trebuchet
4. A Byzantine-made version of the ancient Roman
legal code became known as the __________.
9. What was the state language of the Eastern
Roman Empire after the 7th century?
a. Byzantine Constitution
a. Arabic
b. Justinian Code
b. Greek
c. Ten Commandments
c. Latin
d. Twelve Tables
d. Russian
5. What group conquered Constantinople in 1453?
a. Bulgarians
10. What renowned church was built by Emperor
Justinian in the sixth century?
b. Greco-Romans
a. Canterbury Cathedral
c. Kievan Rus
b. Hagia Sophia
d. Ottomans
c.
Notre Dame
d. St. Peter’s Basilica
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