DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Read the paragraph and indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. “Athenians suffered further hardship [from the plague] owing to the crowding into the city of people from the country districts; and this affected the new arrivals especially. For since no houses were available for them, and they had to live in huts that were stifling [hot and without air] in the hot season, they perished [died] in wild disorder. Bodies of dying men lay one upon another and half-dead people rolled about in the streets and, in their longing [desire] for water, near all the fountains. The temples, too, in which they had quartered [sheltered] themselves were full of the corpses of those who had died in them; for the calamity [disaster] which weighed upon them was so overpowering that men, not knowing what was to become of them, became careless of all law.”
—Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War: Volume 1

11. According to the passage by the historian Thucydides, who suffered the most from the crowding in the city?

A. the people already living in the city
B. the people still living in the country
C. the new arrivals from the country
D. government officials

12. According to the passage, why were many corpses found near the city’s fountains?

A. Sick people longed for water.
B. Sick people longed to bathe.
C. The plague was spread by water.
D. There was no place else to put them

13. According to the passage, what symbolized to Thucydides that the plague was causing people to stop caring about following laws?

A. people living in the temples
B. people living in huts
C. people dying by the fountains
D. people moving in from the country

14. According to the passage on the previous page, why did people become careless of the law?

A. They hated the government.
B. They blamed the government for the plague.
C. Those who suffered from the plague tended to be criminals.
D. They didn’t know what was to become of them.

15. According to the passage on the previous page, why did new arrivals to Athens live in huts?

A. Huts were the cheapest form of housing.
B. No houses were available for them.
C. They preferred living in huts.
D. Everyone in Athens lived in huts.

16. Which Greek tyrant became popular by giving land to landless farmers?

A. Xerxes
B. Solon
C. Peisistratus
D. Cyrus

17. Which of these did the Mycenaeans learn from the Minoans?

A. navigating by the sun and stars
B. advances in philosophy and the arts
C. making iron tools
D. pottery making

18. A 300-year period of time in Greece beginning around 1100 b. c. is called the Dark Age because

A. Persians conquered Greece and ruled with absolute power.
B. trade and farming failed, and many stopped reading and writing.
C. there were natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, plagues, and famines.
D. the Greek city-states fought one another so much that the economy failed completely.

19. The Athenian assembly appointed ten generals who

A. were educational leaders.
B. led armies into battle.
C. carried out the assembly’s laws.
D. tried to increase trade.

20. Sparta finally was able to defeat Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War

A. by burning the city.
B. because they killed the leaders of the Athenian army.
C. when they received assistance from Macedonia.
D. by destroying their naval fleet and blockading the city.