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