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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Xenophon: The Ordinary Athenian Gentleman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word best describes the ancient Athenians?
(a) contol by priests
(b) fearful
(c) superstitious
(d) freedom

2. What was characteristic of Greek art?
(a) mind and spirit have no effect on art
(b) mind and spirit in equal balance
(c) spirit stronger than mind
(d) mind stronger than spirit

3. What does Hamilton consider to be the greatest of all Greek poetry?
(a) the poetry in Greek tragedy
(b) history
(c) the poetry in Greek comedy
(d) odes

4. The world's first academy was in _____________________.
(a) Sparta
(b) Rome
(c) Crete
(d) Athens

5. One writer whose works reveal the values of the society is ______________.
(a) Plato
(b) Salamis
(c) Thucydides
(d) Marathon

Short Answer Questions

1. As a young man, Xenophon was ________________________.

2. The freedom of Athenian thought and expression led to ____________________.

3. Xenophon because wealthy by __________________________.

4. Herodotus' History is concerned with ___________________________.

5. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?

(see the answer key)

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