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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Aeschylus: The First Dramatist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.
(a) moral corruption
(b) a lack of the spiritual
(c) physical and spiritual perfection
(d) physical slovenliness

2. What was not a function of the chorus?
(a) to dance
(b) to answer questions from the audience
(c) to sing
(d) to present the author's views and opinions

3. Which of the following would you expect to give the shortest account of a situation?
(a) the Greeks
(b) the Hebrews
(c) Shakespeare
(d) the Bible

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

5. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.
(a) the Athenian culture and its contirubtions to the world ended
(b) the Athenian culture spread
(c) Sparta adopted the Athenian culture
(d) Sparta merged wih Athens

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?

2. Intellectual discussions took place _________________.

3. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.

4. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

5. The first scientists were the _________________.

(see the answer key)

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