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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The priests of ancient Egypt _____________________________.
(a) were powerless
(b) taught the common man
(c) yielded to the power of the king
(d) guarded their position of power as intellectuals

3. Which city was responsible for a new civilization?
(a) Athens
(b) Crete
(c) Sparta
(d) Rome

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

5. The Athenian audience of Aristophanes ___________________________.
(a) was judgmental
(b) didn't understand his humor
(c) walked out
(d) was accepting of the subject matter

6. Of all the Greek poets, Pindar is described as the _____________________________.
(a) most difficult to read and translate
(b) easiest to read and translate
(c) easiest to read but hardest to translate
(d) average

7. Marathon was the site of ____________________________.
(a) the Persian victory over Athens
(b) the Athenian victory over Sparta
(c) the Athenian victory over Rome
(d) the Athenian victory over the Persians

8. What was the major issue in the war with the Persians?
(a) land
(b) national boundaries
(c) ownership of slaves
(d) freedom and liberty

9. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?
(a) Pericles
(b) Sophocles
(c) Aeschylus
(d) Euripides

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

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

12. The first scientists were the _________________.
(a) Greeks
(b) Mesopotmanians
(c) Romans
(d) Egyptians

13. Compared to Aristophanes _____________________.
(a) Gilbert is bawdier
(b) Gilbert is more restrained
(c) both are just as risque
(d) neither is risque

14. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.
(a) not important in the life of the ancient Greeks
(b) nonexistant
(c) represented by the gods and goddesses they believed in
(d) montheistic

15. Greek art is based on _________________________.
(a) abstractions of reality
(b) the orders of the priests
(c) symboliswm
(d) the reality of what the artist sees

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pindar considered to be important?

2. The term used to describe the Greek artist is ______________________.

3. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.

4. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?

5. Which of the following would you expect to give the shortest account of a situation?

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