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This document is a quiz testing knowledge about various aspects of Greek history, culture, and literature. It contains 20 multiple choice questions about topics like the earliest inhabitants of Greece, periods of Greek history like the Neolithic and Ottoman periods, Greek cuisine, drinks, languages, folk songs, and 6 masterpieces of Greek literature including The Iliad, The Odyssey, and works by Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon, Simonides of Ceos, and Theocritus. The questions are answered with brief but factually correct responses about each subject area.

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This document is a quiz testing knowledge about various aspects of Greek history, culture, and literature. It contains 20 multiple choice questions about topics like the earliest inhabitants of Greece, periods of Greek history like the Neolithic and Ottoman periods, Greek cuisine, drinks, languages, folk songs, and 6 masterpieces of Greek literature including The Iliad, The Odyssey, and works by Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Anacreon, Simonides of Ceos, and Theocritus. The questions are answered with brief but factually correct responses about each subject area.

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Quiz.

1. The history of Greece can be traced back to _______________.

Answer: Stone Age hunters

2. A period beginning with the establishment of agricultural societies in 7000 BC and ending in 3200/3100
BC.

Answer: Neolithic

3. Covering a period from 1453 up until the Greek Revolution of 1821.

Answer: Ottoman Greece


4-7. Greece also features a large number of islands, of various sizes, both large ones including _______.
Answers : crete
Euboea
Rhodes
Corfu
8. is characteristic of the healthy Mediterranean diet, which is epitomized by dishes of Crete.
Answer: Cuisine

9. Is an anise-flavoured aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus.

Answer: Ouzo

10. Is a purified form of the Greek Language midway between modern and ancient forms set in train during the
early nineteenth century

Answer: Katharevousa

11.-12. Demotiko which is divided into two cycles.

Answer: Akritic

Klephtic

13. Became the forerunners of the Greek modern urban popular song.
Answer: Heptanesean kantdhes

14. refers to literature written in common Modern Greek, emerging from late Byzantine times in the 11th
century.

Answer: Modern Greek Literature


15-20. Give the 6 Masterpieces in Greece
Answers: The Iliad and The Odyssey
Tyrtaeus
Alcaeus of Mytilene
Anacreon
Simonides of Ceos
Theocritus

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