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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Religion of the Greeks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?
(a) they were executed
(b) they became slaves
(c) they were exchanged for enemy prisoners
(d) they were released after the war's end

2. What did the world of the dead represent to the ancient Egyptians?
(a) security, peace and pleasure
(b) existence with God
(c) the movement to a higher level
(d) the continuation of misery

3. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.
(a) Sparta and Thebes
(b) Athens and Sparta
(c) Thebes and Peloponnesia
(d) Athens and Rome

4. Xenophon's book is about _______________________________.
(a) the defeat of the Persians
(b) how the retreat of the Ten Thousand was successful
(c) Greek society
(d) discipline in the military

5. Which term does not apply to the Theater of Dionysus?
(a) loss of the sense of isolation
(b) worship
(c) community
(d) orgies

Short Answer Questions

1. Herodotus is known as ______________.

2. What was important to Greek poets?

3. The Hindu artist ________________________.

4. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?

5. Which of the following names is not considered to be one of the imponderables?

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