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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Xenophon: The Ordinary Athenian Gentleman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first games, contests and competitions were held in _____________.
(a) Greece
(b) Egypt
(c) Constantinople
(d) Rome

2. The dialogues of Plato indicate that Athenians _________________________-.
(a) were not intereted in intellectual discussions
(b) wanted to do their own thinking
(c) delegated intellectual things to the teachers
(d) were not interested in intellectual thinking

3. Marathon was the site of ____________________________.
(a) the Athenian victory over the Persians
(b) the Athenian victory over Sparta
(c) the Persian victory over Athens
(d) the Athenian victory over Rome

4. Herodotus is known as ______________.
(a) the father of history
(b) the father of travel
(c) the father of tragedy
(d) the father of comedy

5. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?
(a) second
(b) fourth
(c) fifth
(d) third

Short Answer Questions

1. As a young man, Xenophon was ________________________.

2. What was characteristic of Greek art?

3. What was the major issue in the war with the Persians?

4. Herodotus was the first Greek _______________________________.

5. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.

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