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SAMPLE MID-TERM EXAMINATION

The Mid-Term Examination will be held on Wednesday, February 10, at the regular class time and place. The exam will last 48 minutes. You will write your answers directly on the exam itself, rather than on a bluebook. The exam will cover all the reading assigned through the week of February 8 and all classes through that day. The following is a sample, designed to help you prepare for the exam by showing you the format that the exam will have and giving you an idea of the kind of questions that might be asked. As you prepare, make sure you consider the assigned reading as well as what has been discussed in class; some of the questions will be drawn from the readings, and if you have not read the assignments, you will probably have some difficulty in doing well on the exam.

Part A. Short Questions (40%). Answer five of the following questions in the space provided. (Remember that these are sample questions.)

    1. The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, published in Vienna, was   ____________________.

    2. Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in the year   _________.

    3.  __________________ was the first capital of independent Greece.

    4. The siege of what city by the Turks ended in disaster for the Greeks, but it helped bring the Powers into the struggle?         

         _________________

    5. The so-called ___________________ in 1909 was an attempt to modernize Greece in response to the revolution of the

     "Young Turks."

    6. What does rhouspheti mean in the context of 19th century Greece? _______________________________________

 

Part B. Map  (20%).  Select the proper letter for FOUR of the following locations:

 

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Arta ______

Nafplion _____

Smyrna _____

Constantinople _____

Thessaloniki _____

 

Part C. Essay (40%). Write an essay on ONE of the following questions. Be sure to explain yourself and provide evidence to demonstrate your answer. Support your generalizations with specific evidence. For help in writing answers to essay exams in history, look at the Department's Web Page http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/history/essayexm.htm.

The following are samples.

  1. Based on what you have learned in this course what was more responsible for the establishment of an indepenent Greece: the heroism of the klefts or the action of the Philhellenes?

    2. Before 1922 was the "megale idea" a good thing or a bad thing for Greece?  Explain.

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