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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Intellectual discussions took place _________________.
(a) wherever men met
(b) in the forums
(c) in the schools
(d) in the temples

2. What did the world of the dead represent to the ancient Egyptians?
(a) existence with God
(b) the movement to a higher level
(c) the continuation of misery
(d) security, peace and pleasure

3. The Egyptians believed that when a man died _____________________________________.
(a) it didn't matter what he was surrounded with
(b) he should have with him the same kind of things that he had in life
(c) they would destroy the body
(d) the body must return to dust

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

5. The first games, contests and competitions were held in _____________.
(a) Egypt
(b) Rome
(c) Greece
(d) Constantinople

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

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

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

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

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

11. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?
(a) exaggeration
(b) fact
(c) praise
(d) honesty

12. One way to learn the values of a society is to look at ______________________.
(a) science
(b) its literature
(c) daily life
(d) history

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was characteristic of Greek art?

2. The Athenian audience of Aristophanes ___________________________.

3. The Hindu artist ________________________.

4. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.

5. In Egypt ___________________________.

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