The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens & Rome Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Peter Connolly
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 115 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens & Rome Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. This event consists of discus, long jump, javelin, sprinting, and wrestling.
(a) Panhellenic.
(b) Panathenaic.
(c) Triada.
(d) Pentathlon.

5. This is a tradition for men where all would become so drunk they would need to be carried home by slaves.
(a) The Cyphon.
(b) The Sinphon.
(c) The Symposion.
(d) The Drinking Room.

6. How many members are there in the boule?
(a) 200.
(b) 500.
(c) 2000.
(d) 5000.

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

8. In 480 BC, a huge army under this Persian king breaks through the Spartan army at Thermopylae, and attacks Athens.
(a) Themistocles.
(b) Xerxes,
(c) Erechtheus.
(d) Pisistratus.

9. Juries in Athens for criminal trials have a range of members that include this many people.
(a) 201 - 2001 people.
(b) 21 - 201 people.
(c) 2001 - 20,001 people.
(d) 1 - 21 people.

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

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

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

13. Sophocles is said to have introduced this.
(a) Masks.
(b) Music.
(c) Scenery.
(d) Rhyme.

14. Over half the population of Attica are this.
(a) Farmers.
(b) Politicians.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Businessmen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 487 BC, laws are passed that dictate candidates for archonship must be chosen in this manner, instead of being elected.

2. The Pythian games are held at this place.

3. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.

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

5. Hades is the god of this.

(see the answer keys)

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