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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What had the most freedom as an artist?
(a) the Greek
(b) the Buddhist
(c) the Hindu
(d) the Egyptian

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

5. What was not a function of the chorus?
(a) to answer questions from the audience
(b) to dance
(c) to present the author's views and opinions
(d) to sing

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

7. Plato viewed the Greek people as ___________________.
(a) apathetic
(b) intellectual with vitality
(c) dull
(d) stupid

8. How did the Greeks feel about slavery?
(a) They opposed slavery
(b) It was an accepted way of life
(c) There were no slaves
(d) It was evil

9. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.
(a) covered all intellectual activitries
(b) was to function as advisors
(c) was to teach the population
(d) was limited to matters of religion only

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

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

12. Herodotus reported _____________________________.
(a) only the facts he velieved
(b) only what he found and substantiated
(c) anything he heard
(d) the facts whether he believed them or not

13. Hamilton feels there is a great deal of similarity between Aristophanes and the comedy of ______________________.
(a) seventeenth centiry France
(b) fifteenth century England
(c) modern day Broadway
(d) sixteenth century England

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Herodotus is known as ______________.

2. Herodotus was the first Greek _______________________________.

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

4. The works of Aristophanes were _______________________.

5. At the time of Sophocles ________________________.

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