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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which Pharaoh opposed the priests?
(a) Cleopatra
(b) Julius Caesar
(c) Akhenaton
(d) Ra
2. The first scientists were the _________________.
(a) Romans
(b) Greeks
(c) Mesopotmanians
(d) Egyptians
3. The Greeks _________________________.
(a) applied no limits to thoughts
(b) limited intellectual thought to priests
(c) limited thought to certain fields
(d) practiced mind control
4. The Greeks had different rules of standards that applied to different people. This is evidence of their ________________.
(a) values
(b) laws
(c) hypocrisy
(d) rules
5. What is one of the presumptions of Aristophanes' plays?
(a) the audience must be educated
(b) the audience is aware of the current thought and literature
(c) the audience will not understand his points without the chorus
(d) the audience is ignorant of literature
6. What word best describes the ancient Athenians?
(a) superstitious
(b) fearful
(c) contol by priests
(d) freedom
7. The Ancient Greeks of the time exhibited a ________________________.
(a) a desire for imperialism
(b) lack of interest in cultural and intellectual pursuits
(c) new power of the mind
(d) the same interests as other civilizations
8. The Greek aristocracy_______________________.
(a) had its own standard to live by
(b) lived by the same standards as others
(c) were liars and cheaters
(d) were not honorable men
9. Hamilton feels there is a great deal of similarity between Aristophanes and the comedy of ______________________.
(a) modern day Broadway
(b) fifteenth century England
(c) sixteenth century England
(d) seventeenth centiry France
10. Herodotus was the first Greek _______________________________.
(a) to write in prose and have it accepted as poetry
(b) to take an interest in mankind
(c) to write of history
(d) to write in verse
11. What was the crime that Socrates committed that resulted in his execution?
(a) corruption of youth and introduction of new gods
(b) support of the Egyptians
(c) criticism of the king
(d) debt
12. What is the reason for the Egyptian preoccupation with death?
(a) the fairness of the ruler
(b) belief in God
(c) the misery of everyday life
(d) good living conditions
13. Herodotus reported _____________________________.
(a) only what he found and substantiated
(b) anything he heard
(c) the facts whether he believed them or not
(d) only the facts he velieved
14. The primary interest of the ancient Egyptians was a preoccupation with _______________.
(a) the living
(b) the dead
(c) intellectual activities
(d) inventions
15. One writer whose works reveal the values of the society is ______________.
(a) Plato
(b) Salamis
(c) Marathon
(d) Thucydides
Short Answer Questions
1. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.
2. What had the most freedom as an artist?
3. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.
4. Which of the following would you expect to give the shortest account of a situation?
5. Who was charged with leadership in the Greek society of Pindar's time?
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