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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 Symposion.
(c) The Drinking Room.
(d) The Cyphon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Panathenaic Games are only for these people.

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

3. This many main Gods are worshiped in Athens.

4. This person, the designer of the building, puts together a team of sculptors to create the sculptures outside the Parthenon.

5. These houses are cut into the hillside.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the various rooms located within Athenian households, using the book as your guide.

2. Describe the tribal contests of the fifth day of the Panathenaic festival.

3. Explain the great procession to the Acropolis.

4. Explain the system of law and order in Athens.

5. Describe the poetry and music events of the Panathenaic feast.

6. Explain the marriage process, including the betrothal and the procession.

7. Describe the political structure of fifth century Athens, and include the Agora and stoas.

8. Describe semi-detached houses as well as hill houses. Include details from the book.

9. Explain the change to comedy in the fourth century.

10. Describe the statues of the exterior of the Parthenon.

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