Sample Exam

Note:  This is a sample of exam format and content ONLY.  The questions below are representative of ones that may appear on exams in this course.  You should remember that this specific exam was NOT used in sections of CIV 100 team-taught by Professors Dannehl and Kelley and thus includes questions on subjects not covered in the current course.

CIV 100-01-02                                                                                             NAME_________________________
EXAM I

PART I.  MULTIPLE CHOICE.  (1.5 POINTS PER QUESTION).  For each of the following items, circle the letter that corresponds to the response that best completes the sentence or answers the question.

1.    Which is unrelated to the others in Socrates' view?
       a.  virtue
       b.  faith
       c.  knowledge
       d.  happiness

2.    Platonic love involves:
       a.  disgust with sex.
       b.  paternal affection.
       c.  love of the state.
       d.  soul halves.

3.    The school of philosophy that preceded Socrates was:
       a.  Sophists.
       b.  Albigensians.
       c.  Mithraic.
       d.  Ptolemaic.

4.    Socrates wrote:
       a.  The Republic.
       b.  Poetics.
       c.  Confessions.
       d.  nothing.

5.    Jesus thought people should:
       a.  work hard to accumulate wealth.
       b.  defy Rome by refusing to pay taxes.
       c.  earn money to contribute to Hebrew causes.
       d.  be indifferent to wealth.

6.    Which of the following does not belong?
       a.  Epicureanism
       b.  Zoroastrianism
       c.  Christianity
       d.  Judaism

7.    The Covenant involved:
       a.  God's promise to favor his chosen people.
       b.  an alliance among the 12 tribes of Israel.
       c.  the pope's authority.
       d.  the heirarchy of bishops in the early church.

8.    The Germanic strain in the Middle Ages contributed:
       a.  a strong literary tradition.
       b.  the ideal of personal loyalty to a lord.
       c.  a sophisticated political structure.
       d.  matriarchal organization of society.

9.    St. Thomas Aquinas was:
       a.  an important philosopher.
       b.  a hermit.
       c.  the founder of a monastic order.
       d.  a defender of the supremacy of the pope.

10.  Land in return for military service is:
       a.  manorialism.
       b.  feudalism.
       c.  functional theory of society.
       d.  militia organization.

11.  Individuals of which social group profited most from the expansion of the Roman territorial empire?
       a.  plebeians
       b.  patricians
       c.  centuries
       d.  Carthaginians

12.  The official responsible for the administration of Roman law was the:
       a.  censor.
       b.  oracle.
       c.  praetor.
       d.  senator.

13.  Which of the following was not a characteristic of Roman law?
       a.  It was grounded on earlier religious principles.
       b.  Rights and punishments depended on social status.
       c.  It was based on natural law.
       d.  It was universal.

14.  The concept of paterfamilias originates with:
       a.  the Greeks.
       b.  the Romans.
       c.  early Christians.
       d.  the Roman Catholic Church.

15.  The two ancient authors who define what we call the "epic" are:
       a.  Homer and Cicero.
       b.  Homer and Vergil.
       c.  Vergil and Ovid.
       d.  Sophocles and Vergil.

16.  Rome's aqueducts were made possible by which of the following architectural innovations?
       a.  post-and-lintel columns
       b.  semicircular arch
       c.  the flying buttress
       d.  embankment

17.  Which of the following is an inaccurate statement?
       a.  Greek architecture perfected the post-and-lintel construction.
       b.  The "Discus Thrower" is an ideal representation of the male figure.
       c.  The Parthenon shows the harmony between the spiritual and the secular.
       d.  The Homeric epics were composed during the Athenian age.

18.  The Greek audience would have viewed Sophocles' play Antigone as:
       a.  an argument for dictatorship.
       b.  an argument for moderation.
       c.  an argument against obeying the gods.
       d.  an argument for a woman ruler.

19.  The conqueror who wanted to fuse the best features of Greek culture and Middle Eastern culture was:
       a.  Alexander of Macedonia.
       b.  Pericles of Athens.
       c.  Zoroaster of Persia.
       d.  Hector of Troy.

20.  In the medieval functional view of society:
       a.  Christianity wages a holy war against Islam.
       b.  peasants can rise to be nobility through hard work.
       c.  each individual is born into an assigned social class.
       d.  all peasants are tied to the land.
 

PART II.  SHORT ESSAYS.  (EACH SHORT ESSAY WORTH 35 POINTS).

DIRECTIONS:  On side one of the attached sheet of blank paper, answer one of the short essay questions from Group A.  On side two of the attached sheet of blank paper, answer one of the short essay questions from Group B.

Group A (side one):

1.  Compare the Greek and Roman conceptions of citizenship.

2.  Which civilization showed greater religious innovation--Classical Greece or the Roman Empire?

Group B (side two):

1.  According to the text, how did the social position of women differ in Classical Greece versus the Roman Republic?

2.  How does the Code of Hammurabi differ from Roman law?

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