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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. Which city did Pindar live in?
(a) Thebes
(b) Crete
(c) Sparta
(d) Athens

2. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.
(a) Athens
(b) Sparta
(c) Marathon
(d) Salamis

3. The primary interest of the ancient Egyptians was a preoccupation with _______________.
(a) intellectual activities
(b) the living
(c) inventions
(d) the dead

4. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
(a) Mighty City
(b) City of Freedom
(c) Tyrant City
(d) City of Love

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?

2. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?

3. Plato viewed the Greek people as ___________________.

4. Aeschylus believed in the _____________________.

5. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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