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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The freedom of Athenian thought and expression led to ____________________.
(a) confusion
(b) panic
(c) the basis for science
(d) fear

5. Poetic license ________________________________________.
(a) requires briefness
(b) calls for simple statements
(c) requires facts
(d) allows the poet to write in whatever way he wants

6. Who was charged with leadership in the Greek society of Pindar's time?
(a) noone in particular
(b) the elected leaders
(c) the aristocracy
(d) royalty

7. Who, among the following, was a teacher?
(a) Aristophanes
(b) Aeschylus
(c) Sophocles
(d) Plato

8. What is the reason for the Egyptian preoccupation with death?
(a) belief in God
(b) the fairness of the ruler
(c) good living conditions
(d) the misery of everyday life

9. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?
(a) fourth
(b) second
(c) third
(d) fifth

10. In the ancient world, before the rise of Athens and the Greeks, the greatest civilization was ________________.
(a) Crete
(b) Sparta
(c) Rome
(d) Egypt

11. What does Hamilton consider to be the greatest of all Greek poetry?
(a) history
(b) the poetry in Greek comedy
(c) odes
(d) the poetry in Greek tragedy

12. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.
(a) a lack of the spiritual
(b) physical and spiritual perfection
(c) physical slovenliness
(d) moral corruption

13. Greek writing can easily ________________________________________.
(a) be interpreted
(b) be accomodated to the English style
(c) have the style and meaning lost in the translation
(d) be translated into English

14. The Hindu artist ________________________.
(a) had limited freedom
(b) had the most freedom
(c) was dictated to by Hindu priests
(d) had no freedom

15. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.
(a) comic book
(b) sports page
(c) newspaper
(d) romance novel

Short Answer Questions

1. Greek writing can be characterized as ______________________.

2. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.

3. How many actors were in a play written by Aristophanes?

4. At the time of Sophocles ________________________.

5. What did the world of the dead represent to the ancient Egyptians?

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