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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. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.
(a) moral corruption
(b) physical slovenliness
(c) a lack of the spiritual
(d) physical and spiritual perfection

2. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?
(a) holy book
(b) dogma
(c) Zeus
(d) theology

3. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) kill all the officers and leaders
(b) split the force in half
(c) make slaves of the leaders
(d) there was no plan

4. Which Pharaoh opposed the priests?
(a) Ra
(b) Akhenaton
(c) Cleopatra
(d) Julius Caesar

5. Which of the following terms does not describe Greek writing?
(a) exaggeration
(b) reality
(c) fact
(d) simpleness

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not one of the plays of Aristophanes?

2. Herodotus was the first Greek _______________________________.

3. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?

4. According to Hamilton, Greek religion developed from _____________________________.

5. Who does Hamilton compare the work of Aristophanes to?

(see the answer key)

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