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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Athenians as Plato Saw Them.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Greeks classified Pindar in the ________________________.
(a) simple school of writing
(b) aristocratic school of writing
(c) ornate school of writing
(d) austere school of writing

3. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.
(a) the athletes of the games
(b) the common man
(c) the kind
(d) the intellectuals

4. The Hindu artist ________________________.
(a) had limited freedom
(b) was dictated to by Hindu priests
(c) had no freedom
(d) had the most freedom

5. At the time of Sophocles ________________________.
(a) there was a literary class
(b) there was no literary class
(c) the teachers were the literary class
(d) the priests were the literary class

Short Answer Questions

1. Pindar believed that the wealthy and powerful would _____________________________.

2. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.

3. In Egypt ___________________________.

4. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.

5. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.

(see the answer key)

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