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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Pindar: The Last Greek Aristocrat.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Greeks _________________________.
(a) practiced mind control
(b) applied no limits to thoughts
(c) limited thought to certain fields
(d) limited intellectual thought to priests

3. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.
(a) montheistic
(b) represented by the gods and goddesses they believed in
(c) not important in the life of the ancient Greeks
(d) nonexistant

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

5. What was important to Greek poets?
(a) ornateness
(b) symbolism
(c) imagery
(d) meter

Short Answer Questions

1. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.

2. The primary interest of the ancient Egyptians was a preoccupation with _______________.

3. The power of the Egyptian priests came from ____________________________.

4. The Buddhist artist ________________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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