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