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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. Who serve as police officers, in a sense, in Athens?
(a) Men of the military.
(b) Public slaves.
(c) Women.
(d) Young men before they are of age to join the military.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hades is the god of this.

2. At Olympia, women who watch the games are ___________________.

3. This is the king of the Gods.

4. Priestesses answer practical questions of the present and future here.

5. A great statue of this goddess stands inside the west end of the central isle of the Parthenon.

(see the answer key)

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