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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. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?
(a) kind
(b) intelligent
(c) honest
(d) devious

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

3. The world's first academy was in _____________________.
(a) Athens
(b) Sparta
(c) Crete
(d) Rome

4. Herodotus reported _____________________________.
(a) only the facts he velieved
(b) anything he heard
(c) only what he found and substantiated
(d) the facts whether he believed them or not

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Xenophon suggested that _____________________________________.

2. The first games, contests and competitions were held in _____________.

3. Xenophon because wealthy by __________________________.

4. Compared to the Hebrew writing in the Bible, Greek writing is ______________.

5. Poetic license ________________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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