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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. At Olympia, women who watch the games are ___________________.
(a) Considered lower class.
(b) Used as slaves.
(c) Celebrated.
(d) Punished by death.

2. These rooms are so small, they are difficult to distinguish among the ruins of Athenian ruins.
(a) Bathrooms.
(b) Living rooms.
(c) Dining rooms.
(d) Kitchens.

3. This is the political and legal center of the city of Athens.
(a) The Oracle.
(b) The Acropolis.
(c) The Long Walls.
(d) The Agora.

4. Although no pictures of these have been found, we know these existed in fifth century Athens.
(a) Engines.
(b) Canons.
(c) Ships.
(d) Cranes.

5. This person is the first to do a dramatic reading, thereby beginning the Greek drama.
(a) Hermes.
(b) Athena.
(c) Thespis.
(d) Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. This is the best known storehouse for the equipment of the large Athenian navy.

2. These types of Athenian houses are often built in connection to other houses.

3. This house displays an early example of the Masonry style, with plaster molded into rectangles in different colors.

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

5. The ekklesia in fifth century Athens is the _________.

(see the answer key)

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