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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The dialogues of Plato indicate that Athenians _________________________-.
(a) were not intereted in intellectual discussions
(b) wanted to do their own thinking
(c) were not interested in intellectual thinking
(d) delegated intellectual things to the teachers

2. Poetic license ________________________________________.
(a) allows the poet to write in whatever way he wants
(b) requires briefness
(c) requires facts
(d) calls for simple statements

3. The first games, contests and competitions were held in _____________.
(a) Greece
(b) Rome
(c) Egypt
(d) Constantinople

4. The war with the Persians ended with the battle at ___________________.
(a) Salamis
(b) Thermopylae
(c) Sparta
(d) Athens

5. What is the reason for the Egyptian preoccupation with death?
(a) belief in God
(b) the fairness of the ruler
(c) good living conditions
(d) the misery of everyday life

Short Answer Questions

1. Aristophanes is described as _____________________.

2. How did the Greeks feel about slavery?

3. Herodotus is classified as a writer of ____________________.

4. Herodotus is known as ______________.

5. Marathon was the site of ____________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Western view of art?

2. Explain the way of the spirit.

3. Why does Hamilton feel that Greek writers have not been copied by writers of other countries as Greek sculptor and architecture has?

4. Why is the poetry of Pindar described as musical?

5. What were the characteristics of the austere school of writing?

6. Who basically engaged in intellectual discussions?

7. Who is Herodotus?

8. Why is Pindar considered to be important?

9. Why is the Greek artist called a spiritual materialist?

10. Why was it surprising that the ancient Greeks were scientists?

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