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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. This is a process used in ancient Athens whereby if a certain number of individuals believe a person to be a threat to democracy, he or she can be banished from the city for ten years.
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Orphism.
(c) Ostracism.
(d) Oracleism.

2. This is found on the walls of many houses during the excavations at Olynthus in the 1930s.
(a) Painted plaster.
(b) Painted vases.
(c) Painted canvas.
(d) Paintings.

3. Who is considered to this day to be the father of medicine, from Athens?
(a) Exonerous.
(b) Thiladius.
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Socrates,

4. The oligarchic government of thirty pro-Spartan aristocrats who rule the Athenians following the war with Sparta is called this.
(a) The Thirty Angels.
(b) The Thirty Tyrants.
(c) The Thirty Rulers.
(d) The Thirty Devils.

5. This covered building is erected for the Panathenaic Games when Pericles decides to include musical events.
(a) Temple of Dionysus.
(b) Odeon.
(c) Fourth century stoa.
(d) Dorpfeld Theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is the political and legal center of the city of Athens.

2. The Panathenaic Games are only for these people.

3. Wealthy sons of Athenians are tutored by these, beginning around age seven.

4. What do many Athenians do to unwanted children?

5. This many main Gods are worshiped in Athens.

(see the answer key)

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