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Herodotus Quiz 1

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1. Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus on the southwestern coast of what is today
Albania  Greece  Cyprus  Turkey  Ukraine  No Answer
2. The region was governed at the time by
Macedonia  Athens  Sparta  Assyria  Egypt  Persia  No Answer
3. As far as we know, Herodotus' family
was rather wealthy 
was quite poor 
was wiped out by the governing authorities 
was closely allied with the governing authorities 
had produced several famous sculptors, although none of their work survives today 
No Answer
4. It is believed that most of his travels would have taken place
as the family fled as political refugees 
when he was in his 20s or early 30s 
after he retired from a career as a history teacher, during which he became ever more curious about the “real” facts of the supposed history he had been teaching 
as a guest of a wealthy Egyptian merchant, who was his friend, patron, and some say lover 
No Answer
5. We do not know how Herodotus died, but apparently he spent the last years of his life in an Athenian colony in
Turkey  Macedonia  Cyprus  Crete  southern Italy  No Answer
6. Herodotus suspected that many of the Greek gods were in fact
transformations of older Egyptian “originals” 
anthropomorphizations of natural forces 
divinized misrepresentations of prehistoric Greek heroes 
originally demons whom people flattered out of fear and then came think well of based on the lie of their own flattery 
projections of Greek ideals about parenthood 
inherited from ancient Babylon 
No Answer
7. Herodotus’ visit to Egypt came during the XXVIIth dynasty, when Egypt was ruled by a “pharaoh” who was in fact
Greek  Persian  Kushite  Assyrian  Babylonian  No Answer
8. Herodotus’ account of his visit to Egypt makes up much of Book II of his
History of Egypt 
History of the Peloponnesian War 
The Histories 
Lives of Noble Grecians 
Nature of Things 
Metamorphoses 
No Answer

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This consummately cool, pedagogically compelling, self-correcting,
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