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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Athens, Pages 48 through 102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This event consists of discus, long jump, javelin, sprinting, and wrestling.
(a) Panathenaic.
(b) Pentathlon.
(c) Triada.
(d) Panhellenic.

2. To stave off future attacks, the Athenians build this to help protect their city.
(a) A large gunship.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A cannon.
(d) A wall.

3. This covered building is erected for the Panathenaic Games when Pericles decides to include musical events.
(a) Temple of Dionysus.
(b) Fourth century stoa.
(c) Odeon.
(d) Dorpfeld Theater.

4. This is a process used in ancient Athens whereby if a certain number of individuals believe a person to be a threat to democracy, he or she can be banished from the city for ten years.
(a) Oracleism.
(b) Ostracism.
(c) Orphism.
(d) Oligarchy.

5. The first king of Athens is ________, who establishes worship of the Greek gods.
(a) Xerxes.
(b) Pisistratus.
(c) Erechtheus.
(d) Theseus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The women of Athens are primarily expected to do this.

2. These houses are cut into the hillside.

3. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.

4. This person, the designer of the building, puts together a team of sculptors to create the sculptures outside the Parthenon.

5. Hades is the god of this.

(see the answer key)

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