Question 1
Which of the following best describes the policy favored by Pericles to live in peace with Sparta in the years following the First Peloponnesian War?
A. reckless
B. expansionist
C. isolationist
D. conservative
E. speculative
Question 2
Because the Stoics strove for inner harmony of the individual, ________.
A. their aim was a life lived in accordance with divine will
B. their attitude was upbeat and filled with optimism
C. their goal was to maintain intense involvement and interest in things going on around them
D. they employed wild and resistant methods
E. they forbade any kind of political activity
Question 3
After the time of Alexander the Great, the Greeks turned to ________ for solutions to their problems.
A. politics
B. religion, philosophy, and magic
C. humanism, revived from the fifth century b.c.e.,
D. the belief in human ability to manage forces around them
E. positive thinking