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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Greek Way of Writing.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The priests of ancient Egypt _____________________________.
(a) taught the common man
(b) yielded to the power of the king
(c) guarded their position of power as intellectuals
(d) were powerless

2. Reality to the ancient Egyptian, was directed toward _____________________.
(a) on life and death
(b) on art and culture
(c) where he would go after life
(d) on life itself

3. The artist conceptualizes reality in the form of _______________________.
(a) there is no reality in art
(b) the symbol
(c) pure concepts
(d) he ignores reality

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

5. Greek art is based on _________________________.
(a) the reality of what the artist sees
(b) symboliswm
(c) the orders of the priests
(d) abstractions of reality

Short Answer Questions

1. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.

2. A Greek writer was concerned with ______________________.

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

4. In Egypt ___________________________.

5. The Hindu artist ________________________.

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