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Greek alphabet
  • 1. How is the digraph ⟨ου⟩ pronounced?
A) /u/
B) /e/
C) /o/
D) /i/
  • 2. What sound does the digraph ⟨αι⟩ represent?
A) /e/
B) /i/
C) /u/
D) /a/
  • 3. In Modern Greek, how is the Ancient Greek diphthong ⟨αυ⟩ pronounced?
A) [au]
B) [af]
C) [avf]
D) [av]
  • 4. Under certain conditions, how is the combination ⟨ευ⟩ pronounced?
A) [ef]
B) [efv]
C) [ev]
D) [eu]
  • 5. What sound does the consonant combination ⟨μπ⟩ stand for?
A) [m]
B) [p]
C) [b]
D) [mp]
  • 6. What sound does the consonant combination ⟨ντ⟩ stand for?
A) [nd]
B) [n]
C) [d]
D) [t]
  • 7. What sound does the digraph ⟨τζ⟩ represent?
A) [z]
B) [d͡z]
C) [t͡s]
D) [dz]
  • 8. What sound does the digraph ⟨τσ⟩ represent?
A) [s]
B) [ts]
C) [t͡s]
D) [d͡z]
  • 9. How is the letter ⟨γ⟩ pronounced when placed before another velar consonant?
A) [g]
B) [n]
C) [j]
D) [ŋ]
  • 10. What sound does ⟨γκ⟩ represent before vowels ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩, and ⟨u⟩?
A) [k]
B) [g]
C) [ŋ]
D) [ɟ]
  • 11. What sound does ⟨γκ⟩ represent before vowels ⟨e⟩ and ⟨i⟩?
A) [ɟ]
B) [ŋ]
C) [g]
D) [k]
  • 12. When did the use of the Greek alphabet begin?
A) 4th century BC
B) 9th century AD
C) 5th century BC
D) Late 9th or early 8th century BC
  • 13. From which alphabet was the Greek alphabet derived?
A) Cyrillic
B) Phoenician
C) Coptic
D) Latin
  • 14. How many letters are in the standard Euclidean Greek alphabet?
A) 24
B) 30
C) 26
D) 22
  • 15. What distinguishes the Greek alphabet as the earliest known script?
A) It was written from left to right
B) It was the only script to use diacritics
C) Systematically writing vowels as well as consonants
D) It was the first to use lowercase letters
  • 16. Which script version became standard throughout the Greek-speaking world by the end of the 4th century BC?
A) Coptic-derived alphabet
B) Byzantine cursive script
C) Archaic variant
D) Ionic-based Euclidean alphabet
  • 17. Which of these is an ancestor of the Latin script?
A) Cyrillic script
B) Phoenician alphabet
C) Modern Greek
D) Greek alphabet
  • 18. When did Byzantine scribes begin to use the lowercase form of letters?
A) 9th century
B) 4th century BC
C) 5th century BC
D) Late 9th century BC
  • 19. From what did Byzantine scribes derive the lowercase letters?
A) Cursive styles of uppercase letters
B) Mathematical technical symbols
C) Latin minuscule
D) Phoenician symbols
  • 20. What is the primary difference regarding punctuation in ancient Greek?
A) It used the same punctuation as modern English
B) It used no letters at all
C) It used many periods and commas
D) It was written with little punctuation
  • 21. What orthography did ancient Greek use for diacritics?
A) Monotonic orthography
B) Cursive orthography
C) Simplified orthography
D) Polytonic orthography
  • 22. Which diacritics are kept in modern Greek?
A) Only the polytonic marks
B) Only the grave accent
C) No diacritics at all
D) Stress accent (acute) and the diaeresis
  • 23. In what fields is the Greek alphabet used as a source of symbols today?
A) Mathematics and science
B) Only in religious texts
C) Only in history classes
D) Only in computer programming
  • 24. Why are sound values different between Ancient and Modern Greek?
A) The Phoenician origins were rediscovered
B) The alphabet lost 10 letters
C) Significant phonological shifts over time
D) The alphabet was rewritten in the 9th century
  • 25. What is true about the mapping from spelling to pronunciation in Modern Greek?
A) It is only predictable for consonants
B) It is based on ancient phonetic rules
C) It is entirely unpredictable
D) It is usually regular and predictable
  • 26. What happened to the voiced plosive consonants from Ancient to Modern Greek?
A) They became silent
B) They became fricative sounds
C) They were removed from the alphabet
D) They merged into vowels
  • 27. What is the name of the simplified orthography adopted in 1982?
A) Ancient Greek
B) Katharevousa
C) Polytonic
D) Monotonic
  • 28. What does the rough breathing mark signify in a word-initial position?
A) A hiatus
B) A stressed vowel
C) The presence of an iota
D) An /h/ sound
  • 29. Which letter carries a rough breathing mark when it appears at the beginning of a word?
A) Alpha
B) Rho
C) Iota
D) Omega
  • 30. What does the diaeresis diacritic indicate in Greek?
A) A silent letter
B) An /h/ sound
C) A stressed syllable
D) A hiatus
  • 31. How is the acute accent called in the monotonic system?
A) Circumflex
B) Tonos
C) Breathing mark
D) Grave
  • 32. What is the purpose of the comma in specific Greek words like ό,τι?
A) To mark a stressed syllable
B) To indicate a pause in reading
C) To represent a breathing mark
D) To function similarly to a silent letter
  • 33. In the conventional English rendering of classical Greek names, what is the Greek letter ⟨κ⟩ replaced with?
A) s
B) k
C) ch
D) c
  • 34. In modern scholarly transliteration, how is ⟨κ⟩ usually rendered?
A) c
B) ch
C) q
D) k
  • 35. How is the Greek letter ⟨φ⟩ generally rendered in transliteration?
A) ph
B) th
C) f
D) p
  • 36. Which ISO standard defines a formal transcription system for Modern Greek?
A) ISO 900
B) ISO 843
C) ISO 1000
D) ISO 639
  • 37. Which letter was used for the vowel [a] (alpha) after being adapted from Phoenician?
A) The pharyngeal ʕen
B) The glottal stop consonant ʔalp
C) The glide consonant yod
D) The letter he
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