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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. Xenophon because wealthy by __________________________.
(a) by being a successful businessman
(b) working
(c) from his father's estate
(d) ransoming a rich Persian noble

2. Plato viewed the Greek people as ___________________.
(a) dull
(b) stupid
(c) apathetic
(d) intellectual with vitality

3. Greek writing can easily ________________________________________.
(a) be interpreted
(b) be translated into English
(c) be accomodated to the English style
(d) have the style and meaning lost in the translation

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Compared to Greek writing, English poetry is ____________________.

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

4. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.

5. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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