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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. A Greek writer was concerned with ______________________.
(a) ornate style
(b) symbolism
(c) abstract concepts
(d) the beauty of common things

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

3. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.
(a) full of symbolism
(b) sing-songy
(c) musical
(d) full of imagery

4. Which of the following names is not considered to be one of the imponderables?
(a) Marathon
(b) Pliny
(c) Salamis
(d) Thermopylae

5. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.
(a) the common man
(b) the intellectuals
(c) the athletes of the games
(d) the kind

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the development of Athens, which group handled intellectual activities?

2. Which of the following would you expect to give the shortest account of a situation?

3. What did the world of the dead represent to the ancient Egyptians?

4. Poetic license ________________________________________.

5. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.

(see the answer key)

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