World History- Mr. Joyce FINAL EXAM ESSAY ORGANIZER
Answer the following questions in Complete sentences
Define: Political Allegory:
Define: NATURAL RIGHTS:
How is LORD OF THE FLIES (LOTF) a political allegory?
In LOTF, explain why Ralphʼs government failed. Use at least 2 examples of mistakes
he made.
1.
2.
Give 2 suggestions of what Ralph could have done to try to save his “government.”
1.
2.
What is a dictatorship?
Explain how the second part of the movie LOTF (Government under Jack) shows the
structure of a dictatorship:
How is LOTF similar to Nazi Germany? Use 2 specific examples.
1.
2.
Give 2 examples of how Jack is a dictator.
1.
2.
How does a dictatorship violate NATURAL RIGHTS?
Explain what happened to Jackʼs dictatorship. Use at least 2 examples of mistakes he
made.
1.
2.
William Golding felt that dictatorships will always end badly. Give 2 examples from the
movie that show Goldingʼs negativity about dictatorship.
1.
2.
Exam 3 KEY
1. Which statement about the ancient Greek Olympics is not true??
c. There were separate events for men, for boys, and for women.
2. Which statement about the ancient Greeks is most accurate?
b. Greece achieved its great economic success largelydue to it being surrounded on
three sides by seas.
3. In Greek cities, what was the agora?
e. the market place.
4. What set off the first of Greece's wars with the Persian Empire?
C. Athens' burning of a Persian city
5. The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, meaning it was
a. ruled by the few.
6. Which of the following happened at the battle of Marathon?
b. an outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persian army.
7. Which of the following was part of the structure of Spartan government?
e. Spartan government was made up of b, c. and d.
8. Greece was dominated by city-states. The Greek name for a city-state was
c. polis.
9. A Spartan warrior was told to return from war
c. victorious or dead.
10. Greek tyrants were
c. rulers who seized power by force.
11. In Athens by 500 B.C., every male citizen
b. could vote on all major issues.
12. The Persians won the battle of Thermopylae, but not before they were
held off for 3 days by three hundred
e. Spartans.
13. The Persian Empire was defeated in its second war with Greece after
losing a naval battle at __________ and a land battle at _____________.
b. Salamis/Plataea
14. Much of what we know about Athens before the advent of writing we
learned from paintings
a. on pottery, especially vases.
15. The Greeks invented a method of fighting involving the formation of
infantry soldiers into a phalanx. Under what circumstances was a Greek
phalanx best suited as the basis of military tactics?
c. in mountainous areas with many valleys and passages
16. Which statement about the experience of growing up for boys in ancient
Athens and in ancient Sparta is most accurate?
c. Athenian boys had a greater range of choices about their adult careers than did
Spartan boys.
17. Which statement about the experience of growing up for girls in ancient
Athens and in ancient Sparta is most accurate?
a. Girls in Athens had less freedom outside the home than did girls in Sparta.
18. Who did King Leonidas select to fight at Thermopylae?
B. soldiers with sons
19. Athens established the world's first democracy. This democracy was
based upon rule by which citizens?
C. adult males
20. If you were a helot in Sparta,
C. you were, for all practical purposes, a slave.
21. What was the outcome of the Peloponnesian Wars?
C. the Greeks defeated Persia
22. Athens became an empire by
B. establishing colonies an allies throughout the areas surrounding the Mediterranean
Sea.
23. Triremes were the backbone of
E. the Athenian navy
24. The Athenian leader Pericles called Athens "the school of Greece"
because
A. other Greek city-states sent their sons there to get an education.
B. Athens alone had schools.
C. the Athenians alone allowed girls to get an education.
D. the best artists, scientists, doctors, musicians, philosophers, etc., all came from
Athens.
E. all of the above statements are true
25. Who were known as the Immortals?
E. the best Persian soldiers.
Exam 4 KEY
1. The major striking force for Alexander the Great, that singled him out as
an innovative general, was his use in battle of
A. cavalry.
2. The father and mother of Alexander the Great were
D. Philip/Olympias.
3. Greek history and Roman history were both influenced by their
e. mountains and seacoast.
4. Rome experienced many forms of government during her history. Which
form of government did Rome NOT experience?
B. democracy
5. Rome staged gladiator contests in the
d. Colosseum.
6. From which part of Roman society did all Senators come from?
C. the patricians
7. The two leaders of the Roman Senate were called
C. consuls.
8. In a democracy, the people make the laws directly. In a republic, the laws
are made by
C. elected leaders.
9. Rome's chief rival for power in the Mediterranean Sea region was located
in North Africa, and was finally defeated by Rome after the two Punic Wars.
This rival city-state was known as
B. Carthage.
10. Which of the following was a common punishment for boys in Athens
and Rome, but NOT in Sparta?
e. spanking on the buttocks, with either a sandal, switch or strap
11. The First Triumvirate and the Second Triumvirate were
C. Successive groups of generals (3 in each group) who dominated Roman political life
between the Spartacus Rebellion and the reign of the first emperor, Octavian.
12. The last of the Egyptian Pharaohs, who became involved in romantic
affairs with Roman generals Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, was
B. Cleopatra.
13. Roman dictators were
e. restricted to 6 months in power.
14. The name "Caesar" eventually became the title of
C. all Roman emperors.
15. Which of the following statements about the Roman toga is accurate?
E. It was worn by both Roman men and Roman boys.
16. The powerful Persian Empire was finally destroyed by an army under
the command of
b. Alexander the Great.
17. Historian believe that the gladiator Spartacus most likely died
C. in combat, in his last battle.
18. In a Roman family the head of the family was called the paterfamilias.
This was usually the husband/father, but if he died, it could be any of the
following EXCEPT
A. the mother.
19. A Morse High 9th grade team 1 student buries his/her diary on the front
lawn, describing school life for the writer today. This diary, certainly
dedicated to Mr. Joyce, in two hundred years, if discovered, will be
considered to be
c. an artifact.
20. Roman sculptors created statues that
D. were realistic to create as accurate an image of the model as possible.
21. What kind of historical source would the student diary (question 19)
represent?
b. a primary source
22. Julius Caesar was
B. assassinated.
23. The name "Twelve Tables" was given to
B. Rome's first code of laws.
24. All of the below were sources of slaves in ancient Rome. Which was the
major source?
D. conquered peoples
25. Which of the following increased the power of military generals under
Rome's republic?
A. the increase in the size of armies as Rome conquered other countries
B. the shift in 107 B.C. from the Senate paying soldiers to individual generals paying
soldiers
C. the slave rebellion in 73 B.C., which created a fear in Rome of future slave revolts
E. A through C all increased the power of generals.
26. Which statement about Roman boys and girls is accurate?
A. Both boys and girls could attend school.
27. What was the cause of Alexander the Great's death at age 32?
E. no one knows for certain
28. When did a Roman boy become an adult under law?
E. depending upon the period in Rome's history, between the ages of 14 and 1
29. Why was math a difficult subject for Roman school children?
B. Roman numerals are a difficult system to work with in calculations.
30. Which statement about Roman armies is accurate?
b. Roman armies focused primarily on infantry tactics in battle, rather than on
cavalry.
c. Roman foot soldiers main weapon was the Spanish sword.
e. Both b and c are correct.