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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Athenians as Plato Saw Them.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The style of Greek writing is _____________________________________.
(a) very different from the styles of English writing
(b) the same as English writing
(c) incapable of being translated into English
(d) more ornate than English writing

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

4. The Greeks _________________________.
(a) limited intellectual thought to priests
(b) limited thought to certain fields
(c) practiced mind control
(d) applied no limits to thoughts

5. Greek writing can easily ________________________________________.
(a) be translated into English
(b) be accomodated to the English style
(c) have the style and meaning lost in the translation
(d) be interpreted

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Pharaoh opposed the priests?

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

3. The Greek artist was __________________________.

4. The Egyptians believed that when a man died _____________________________________.

5. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.

(see the answer key)

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