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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Athens, Pages 9 through 47.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is / are the most common forms of punishment in ancient Athens?
(a) Imprisonment.
(b) Flogging and branding.
(c) Execution.
(d) Fines, confiscation of property, loss of rights, or exile.

2. This is the market place and political center of Athens in the fifth century.
(a) Forum.
(b) Agora.
(c) Attica.
(d) Persia.

3. These are used to channel water to the city of Athens.
(a) Clay pipes.
(b) Glass pipes.
(c) Metal pipes.
(d) Gold ditches.

4. To stave off future attacks, the Athenians build this to help protect their city.
(a) A wall.
(b) A cannon.
(c) A large gunship.
(d) A bridge.

5. In 480 BC, a huge army under this Persian king breaks through the Spartan army at Thermopylae, and attacks Athens.
(a) Pisistratus.
(b) Themistocles.
(c) Erechtheus.
(d) Xerxes,

Short Answer Questions

1. The city is accessed through many of these built into the city walls.

2. The oligarchic government of thirty pro-Spartan aristocrats who rule the Athenians following the war with Sparta is called this.

3. What is the only crime in Athens for which a woman can divorce her husband?

4. In around 950 BC, Athens moves from a monarchy to this form of government.

5. Juries in Athens for criminal trials have a range of members that include this many people.

(see the answer key)

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