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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. The games and competitions were considered so important by the Greeks that __________________________________.
(a) a truce of God was called at the start of the games
(b) they were cancelled for lack of participation
(c) they were only held when the king wanted them
(d) they were suspended during wars and conflicts

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

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

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

5. Greek writing can be characterized as ______________________.
(a) plain and matter of fact
(b) full of symbolism
(c) flowery
(d) complicated

Short Answer Questions

1. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.

2. Herodotus' History is concerned with ___________________________.

3. One writer whose works reveal the values of the society is ______________.

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

5. Xenophon's book is about _______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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