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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the age of eighteen, Athenian boys must attend this.
(a) Etiquette lessons.
(b) Civil assemblies.
(c) Military training.
(d) Charm school.

2. These allow state payments to be made for performance of civic duty, thereby allowing the poor to participate in politics.
(a) Tributes and levies.
(b) Taxes.
(c) The Boule and tributes.
(d) The Boule and levies.

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

4. What is the only crime in Athens for which a woman can divorce her husband?
(a) Theft.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Murder.
(d) Continued abuse.

5. _______ is the god of wine and emotion.
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Maenads.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Athena.

6. The first king of Athens is ________, who establishes worship of the Greek gods.
(a) Theseus.
(b) Pisistratus.
(c) Xerxes.
(d) Erechtheus.

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

8. To protect its food supply, Athens decides they require a strong navy, the architect of which is this person.
(a) Xerxes.
(b) Erechtheus.
(c) Delphi.
(d) Themistocles.

9. The ekklesia in fifth century Athens is the _________.
(a) Senate.
(b) Citizen assembly.
(c) Congress.
(d) Monarchy.

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

11. 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 an election of kings.
(c) By lot.
(d) By chance.

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

13. This is a process used in ancient Athens whereby if a certain number of individuals believe a person to be a threat to democracy, he or she can be banished from the city for ten years.
(a) Ostracism.
(b) Oracleism.
(c) Orphism.
(d) Oligarchy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This is the amount sculptors are paid per sculpture for working on the sculptures from the Erechtheum.

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

3. Who serve as police officers, in a sense, in Athens?

4. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.

5. The only trilogy to survive from ancient Athens is this.

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