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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Athens, Pages 48 through 102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sophocles and Euripides are considered the best of these.
(a) Greek musicians.
(b) Greek playwrights.
(c) Greek performers.
(d) Greek comedians.

2. The most famous Athenian trial is that of this person.
(a) Themistocles.
(b) Erechtheus.
(c) Xanxes.
(d) Socrates.

3. What do many Athenians do to unwanted children?
(a) Expose them to the elements to die.
(b) Abort them.
(c) Murder them.
(d) Give them up for adoption.

4. The only trilogy to survive from ancient Athens is this.
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Argos.
(c) Clytemnestra.
(d) Oresteia.

5. It is estimated that the total Athenian military strength is around this many soldiers.
(a) Half a million.
(b) 4500.
(c) 450.
(d) 45,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. These allow state payments to be made for performance of civic duty, thereby allowing the poor to participate in politics.

2. The Pythian games are held at this place.

3. In 480 BC, a huge army under this Persian king breaks through the Spartan army at Thermopylae, and attacks Athens.

4. Most houses have lavatories, consisting of these.

5. This is where the boule meets.

(see the answer key)

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