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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Herodotus: The First Sight-Seer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which city was responsible for a new civilization?
(a) Athens
(b) Crete
(c) Rome
(d) Sparta

2. Herodotus is known as ______________.
(a) the father of history
(b) the father of tragedy
(c) the father of comedy
(d) the father of travel

3. The first games, contests and competitions were held in _____________.
(a) Rome
(b) Greece
(c) Constantinople
(d) Egypt

4. The Greek architecture of the time was _________________________________.
(a) followed the style of the Egyptians
(b) highly ornate
(c) influenced by the East
(d) a simple expression of the intellect

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Opposition to slavery was open and evident in the time of ______________.

2. Compared to Greek writing, English poetry is ____________________.

3. At the time of Sophocles ________________________.

4. In the ancient world, before the rise of Athens and the Greeks, the greatest civilization was ________________.

5. Greek art is based on _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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