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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: Athens, Pages 48 through 102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This person, the designer of the building, puts together a team of sculptors to create the sculptures outside the Parthenon.
(a) Elgin.
(b) Carrey.
(c) Palanthian.
(d) Phidias.

2. This is found on the walls of many houses during the excavations at Olynthus in the 1930s.
(a) Painted vases.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Painted plaster.
(d) Painted canvas.

3. This is where the boule meets.
(a) Agora.
(b) Boulestoa.
(c) The Acropolis.
(d) Bouleuterion.

4. What do many Athenians do to unwanted children?
(a) Give them up for adoption.
(b) Murder them.
(c) Expose them to the elements to die.
(d) Abort them.

5. This covered building is erected for the Panathenaic Games when Pericles decides to include musical events.
(a) Temple of Dionysus.
(b) Fourth century stoa.
(c) Dorpfeld Theater.
(d) Odeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. The oligarchic government of thirty pro-Spartan aristocrats who rule the Athenians following the war with Sparta is called this.

2. This is the market place and political center of Athens in the fifth century.

3. This is a tradition for men where all would become so drunk they would need to be carried home by slaves.

4. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.

5. These events have a high risk of injury or death.

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