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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. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.
(a) Athens
(b) Salamis
(c) Sparta
(d) Marathon

2. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) kill all the officers and leaders
(b) there was no plan
(c) split the force in half
(d) make slaves of the leaders

3. The Greeks had different rules of standards that applied to different people. This is evidence of their ________________.
(a) hypocrisy
(b) laws
(c) rules
(d) values

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

5. What was characteristic of Greek art?
(a) spirit stronger than mind
(b) mind and spirit in equal balance
(c) mind stronger than spirit
(d) mind and spirit have no effect on art

Short Answer Questions

1. Opposition to slavery was open and evident in the time of ______________.

2. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.

3. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.

4. Who was the only Athenian to suffer death for his opinions?

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

(see the answer key)

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