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

2. Domestic slaves are treated as these.
(a) Members of the family.
(b) Less than animals.
(c) Women, with no rights.
(d) Free adults.

3. This festival held every summer to honor Athena is called this.
(a) Pentalthelon.
(b) Panathenaea.
(c) Pentatrithon.
(d) Pentalia.

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

5. This is where the boule meets.
(a) The Acropolis.
(b) Boulestoa.
(c) Agora.
(d) Bouleuterion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. These events have a high risk of injury or death.

3. This many main Gods are worshiped in Athens.

4. This is the common form of Athenian currency.

5. This person is the first to do a dramatic reading, thereby beginning the Greek drama.

(see the answer key)

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