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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Aeschylus: The First Dramatist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was important to Greek poets?
(a) symbolism
(b) imagery
(c) ornateness
(d) meter

2. The games and competitions were considered so important by the Greeks that __________________________________.
(a) a truce of God was called at the start of the games
(b) they were cancelled for lack of participation
(c) they were only held when the king wanted them
(d) they were suspended during wars and conflicts

3. Herodotus was the first Greek _______________________________.
(a) to write in verse
(b) to write of history
(c) to write in prose and have it accepted as poetry
(d) to take an interest in mankind

4. Which of the following is not a name associated with the Athens civilization of this time?
(a) Jupiter
(b) Homer
(c) Plato
(d) Thucydides

5. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) make slaves of the leaders
(b) kill all the officers and leaders
(c) split the force in half
(d) there was no plan

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Aeschylus, Greek drama consisted of ____________________________.

2. Herodotus reported _____________________________.

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

4. Greek writing can easily ________________________________________.

5. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.

(see the answer key)

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