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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Pindar believed that the wealthy and powerful would _____________________________.
(a) abuse the power
(b) use their power to improve their own position
(c) ignore their responsibilities
(d) use their power to help others

5. What was characteristic of Greek art?
(a) mind and spirit in equal balance
(b) mind and spirit have no effect on art
(c) mind stronger than spirit
(d) spirit stronger than mind

6. Who does Hamilton compare the work of Aristophanes to?
(a) Poe
(b) Gilbert
(c) Longfellow
(d) Milton

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

8. Reality to the ancient Egyptian, was directed toward _____________________.
(a) where he would go after life
(b) on life itself
(c) on life and death
(d) on art and culture

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

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

11. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.
(a) the kind
(b) the common man
(c) the intellectuals
(d) the athletes of the games

12. Greek writing is based on __________________.
(a) simile
(b) imagery
(c) reality
(d) symbolism

13. The Greek artist was __________________________.
(a) dictated to by the priests
(b) not creative
(c) unlimited
(d) limited by his mind and what he saw

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

15. Which of the following names is not considered to be one of the imponderables?
(a) Pliny
(b) Salamis
(c) Thermopylae
(d) Marathon

Short Answer Questions

1. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.

2. The Hindu artist ________________________.

3. Which city was responsible for a new civilization?

4. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?

5. The Greeks had different rules of standards that applied to different people. This is evidence of their ________________.

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