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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. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.
(a) Sparta and Thebes
(b) Athens and Sparta
(c) Thebes and Peloponnesia
(d) Athens and Rome

2. Who was the only Athenian to suffer death for his opinions?
(a) Plato
(b) Socrates
(c) Aristophanes
(d) Aristotle

3. Those who are primarily concerned with the spiritual become ___________.
(a) artists
(b) scientists
(c) physicians
(d) archaeologtists

4. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.
(a) role of reason
(b) emphasis on fear
(c) lack of caring
(d) emphasis on ignorance

5. What was the crime that Socrates committed that resulted in his execution?
(a) criticism of the king
(b) debt
(c) corruption of youth and introduction of new gods
(d) support of the Egyptians

Short Answer Questions

1. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.

2. The Greeks had different rules of standards that applied to different people. This is evidence of their ________________.

3. The artist conceptualizes reality in the form of _______________________.

4. The freedom of Athenian thought and expression led to ____________________.

5. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?

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