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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. These events have a high risk of injury or death.
(a) Chariot races.
(b) Boxing.
(c) Track events.
(d) Wrestling.

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

3. The oligarchic government of thirty pro-Spartan aristocrats who rule the Athenians following the war with Sparta is called this.
(a) The Thirty Tyrants.
(b) The Thirty Rulers.
(c) The Thirty Devils.
(d) The Thirty Angels.

4. 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.

5. This house displays an early example of the Masonry style, with plaster molded into rectangles in different colors.
(a) The House of Rainbows.
(b) The House of Many Colors.
(c) The House of Many Designs.
(d) The House of Many Shapes.

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

7. These objects are sparse, and generally made of wood.
(a) Furniture.
(b) Window frames.
(c) Bathtubs.
(d) Doorways.

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

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

10. Authors suggest there is a link between the theater and this.
(a) The Olympic games.
(b) Athena.
(c) Xerxes tent.
(d) Zeus.

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

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

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

14. Ancient walls around the city are believed to have been built in ____.
(a) 8th century AD.
(b) 6th century BC.
(c) 5th century BC.
(d) Both 5th and 6th century BC.

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

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

3. This is the king of the Gods.

4. Over half the population of Attica are this.

5. Sophocles and Euripides are considered the best of these.

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