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

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

3. Greek writing is based on __________________.
(a) imagery
(b) reality
(c) symbolism
(d) simile

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason for the Egyptian preoccupation with death?

2. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.

3. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.

4. The Greek acceptance of reality, as given in an oration by Pericles, makes them ___________________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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