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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the time of Sophocles ________________________.
(a) the teachers were the literary class
(b) the priests were the literary class
(c) there was no literary class
(d) there was a literary class

2. The distinction between mind and spirit is important in the area of ___________.
(a) art
(b) government
(c) law
(d) philosophy

3. Opposition to slavery was open and evident in the time of ______________.
(a) Euripides
(b) Socrates
(c) Plato
(d) Aristotle

4. What word best describes the ancient Athenians?
(a) superstitious
(b) contol by priests
(c) freedom
(d) fearful

5. The Greek architecture of the time was _________________________________.
(a) influenced by the East
(b) followed the style of the Egyptians
(c) highly ornate
(d) a simple expression of the intellect

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

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

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

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

10. The world's first academy was in _____________________.
(a) Athens
(b) Crete
(c) Sparta
(d) Rome

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

12. The Greek aristocracy_______________________.
(a) had its own standard to live by
(b) were liars and cheaters
(c) lived by the same standards as others
(d) were not honorable men

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

14. The Greek acceptance of reality, as given in an oration by Pericles, makes them ___________________________.
(a) warm
(b) exaggerated
(c) interested in humanity
(d) seem cold and unemotional

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Plato viewed the Greek people as ___________________.

3. What had the most freedom as an artist?

4. Which of the following is not a name associated with the Athens civilization of this time?

5. The Greeks _________________________.

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