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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. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.
(a) was to teach the population
(b) covered all intellectual activitries
(c) was to function as advisors
(d) was limited to matters of religion only

2. At the time of Sophocles ________________________.
(a) there was no literary class
(b) there was a literary class
(c) the priests were the literary class
(d) the teachers were the literary class

3. Which of the following names is not considered to be one of the imponderables?
(a) Salamis
(b) Thermopylae
(c) Marathon
(d) Pliny

4. What was the major issue in the war with the Persians?
(a) freedom and liberty
(b) land
(c) national boundaries
(d) ownership of slaves

5. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?
(a) Euripides
(b) Pericles
(c) Sophocles
(d) Aeschylus

Short Answer Questions

1. Marathon was the site of ____________________________.

2. Which of the following would you expect to give the shortest account of a situation?

3. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?

4. One way to learn the values of a society is to look at ______________________.

5. The style of Greek writing is _____________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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