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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. These types of Athenian houses are often built in connection to other houses.
(a) Semi-detached houses.
(b) Block houses.
(c) Workshop houses.
(d) Hill houses.

2. The final day of the festival is devoted to this.
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Races.
(c) A feast.
(d) Prizes.

3. Who is considered to this day to be the father of medicine, from Athens?
(a) Thiladius.
(b) Socrates,
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Exonerous.

4. What is the only crime in Athens for which a woman can divorce her husband?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Murder.
(c) Continued abuse.
(d) Theft.

5. Priestesses answer practical questions of the present and future here.
(a) Apollo at Delphi.
(b) Telesterium.
(c) Eleusis.
(d) Clepsydra Fountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ancient walls around the city are believed to have been built in ____.

2. This house displays an early example of the Masonry style, with plaster molded into rectangles in different colors.

3. Hades is the god of this.

4. A great statue of this goddess stands inside the west end of the central isle of the Parthenon.

5. The athletic events are intended to train men for this.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the poetry and music events of the Panathenaic feast.

2. Explain the marriage process, including the betrothal and the procession.

3. Explain Propylaea in detail, including materials used to make it.

4. Describe the ritual of childbirth, and what options are available to those who gave birth to unwanted children.

5. Explain the change to comedy in the fourth century.

6. Describe the tribal contests of the fifth day of the Panathenaic festival.

7. Compare and contrast the upbringing of young boys and girls in Athens.

8. Describe the political structure of fifth century Athens, and include the Agora and stoas.

9. Describe the Dark Age of Greece.

10. Explain the system of law and order in Athens.

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