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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. Which city did Pindar live in?
(a) Athens
(b) Crete
(c) Sparta
(d) Thebes

2. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) King Lear
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) Macbeth
(d) Hamlet

3. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?
(a) intelligent
(b) honest
(c) kind
(d) devious

4. Opposition to slavery was open and evident in the time of ______________.
(a) Plato
(b) Socrates
(c) Euripides
(d) Aristotle

5. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?
(a) Aeschylus
(b) Euripides
(c) Pericles
(d) Sophocles

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?

2. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

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

4. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.

5. Reality to the ancient Egyptian, was directed toward _____________________.

(see the answer key)

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