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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. What was not a function of the chorus?
(a) to dance
(b) to sing
(c) to answer questions from the audience
(d) to present the author's views and opinions

2. One writer whose works reveal the values of the society is ______________.
(a) Marathon
(b) Thucydides
(c) Plato
(d) Salamis

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

4. How did the Greeks feel about slavery?
(a) It was an accepted way of life
(b) They opposed slavery
(c) There were no slaves
(d) It was evil

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Poetic license ________________________________________.

2. Why is Pindar considered to be important?

3. The Hindu artist ________________________.

4. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.

5. Who was the only Athenian to suffer death for his opinions?

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