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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Way of the Modern World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?
(a) intelligent
(b) honest
(c) devious
(d) kind

2. Hamilton feels there is a great deal of similarity between Aristophanes and the comedy of ______________________.
(a) fifteenth century England
(b) modern day Broadway
(c) sixteenth century England
(d) seventeenth centiry France

3. The term used to describe the Greek artist is ______________________.
(a) realist
(b) symbolist
(c) spiritual materialists
(d) abstractionist

4. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) beutiful workmanship
(b) crude
(c) great intellect
(d) poetic expression

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The most important oracle was at _________________.

3. Viewing things as part of the whole applies to all but _______________.

4. Greek writing is based on __________________.

5. Herodotus was the first Greek _______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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