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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. In 487 BC, laws are passed that dictate candidates for archonship must be chosen in this manner, instead of being elected.
(a) By assembly.
(b) By chance.
(c) By an election of kings.
(d) By lot.

2. A great statue of this goddess stands inside the west end of the central isle of the Parthenon.
(a) Hermes.
(b) Aphrodites.
(c) Athena.
(d) Demeter.

3. This is the common form of Athenian currency.
(a) Thesium.
(b) Enchala.
(c) Dollirium.
(d) Drachma.

4. This many main Gods are worshiped in Athens.
(a) Eighty.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Two.
(d) Twelve.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is considered to this day to be the father of medicine, from Athens?

3. The Panathenaic Games are only for these people.

4. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.

5. These are used to channel water to the city of Athens.

(see the answer key)

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