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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In around 950 BC, Athens moves from a monarchy to this form of government.
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Communism.
(d) Democracy.

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

3. ___________ is credited with building the first stage.
(a) Thespis.
(b) Xerxes.
(c) Pericles.
(d) Hermes.

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

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

6. This person, the designer of the building, puts together a team of sculptors to create the sculptures outside the Parthenon.
(a) Phidias.
(b) Elgin.
(c) Carrey.
(d) Palanthian.

7. The city is accessed through many of these built into the city walls.
(a) Gates,
(b) Windows.
(c) Dungeons.
(d) Ladders.

8. This is the amount sculptors are paid per sculpture for working on the sculptures from the Erechtheum.
(a) 6000 drachmae.
(b) 100 drachmae.
(c) 1000 drachmae.
(d) 60 drachmae.

9. These types of Athenian houses are often built in connection to other houses.
(a) Semi-detached houses.
(b) Block houses.
(c) Hill houses.
(d) Workshop houses.

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

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

12. Marriage in Athens is _______.
(a) Voluntary.
(b) Arranged.
(c) Forbidden.
(d) Mandatory.

13. Priestesses answer practical questions of the present and future here.
(a) Apollo at Delphi.
(b) Eleusis.
(c) Telesterium.
(d) Clepsydra Fountain.

14. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.
(a) Children's literature.
(b) Bible stories.
(c) Well known legends.
(d) Personal stories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This is the political and legal center of the city of Athens.

2. The Panathenaic Games are only for these people.

3. Wealthy sons of Athenians are tutored by these, beginning around age seven.

4. These rooms are so small, they are difficult to distinguish among the ruins of Athenian ruins.

5. This festival held every summer to honor Athena is called this.

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