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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Herodotus: The First Sight-Seer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had the most freedom as an artist?
(a) the Hindu
(b) the Buddhist
(c) the Greek
(d) the Egyptian

2. The Greek acceptance of reality, as given in an oration by Pericles, makes them ___________________________.
(a) warm
(b) exaggerated
(c) interested in humanity
(d) seem cold and unemotional

3. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.
(a) was to function as advisors
(b) was limited to matters of religion only
(c) was to teach the population
(d) covered all intellectual activitries

4. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?
(a) Euripides
(b) Pericles
(c) Sophocles
(d) Aeschylus

5. In Egypt ___________________________.
(a) there was no interest in art
(b) the artist had some freedom of expression
(c) the priests dictated the pattern for art
(d) the artist had total freedom of expression

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Greeks feel about slavery?

2. Herodotus is known as ______________.

3. The Greeks classified Pindar in the ________________________.

4. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.

5. The priests of ancient Egypt _____________________________.

(see the answer key)

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