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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 is famous for his book called __________________________________.
(a) Anbasis
(b) The Treatise on War
(c) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(d) A History of War

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

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

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

5. The style of Greek writing is _____________________________________.
(a) very different from the styles of English writing
(b) more ornate than English writing
(c) the same as English writing
(d) incapable of being translated into English

Short Answer Questions

1. As a young man, Xenophon was ________________________.

2. What does Hamilton consider to be the greatest of all Greek poetry?

3. The games and competitions were considered so important by the Greeks that __________________________________.

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

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

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