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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. Sophocles and Euripides are considered the best of these.
(a) Greek comedians.
(b) Greek performers.
(c) Greek musicians.
(d) Greek playwrights.

2. The Panathenaic Games are only for these people.
(a) Slaves.
(b) Women.
(c) All Greeks.
(d) Athenians.

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

4. This is the market place and political center of Athens in the fifth century.
(a) Forum.
(b) Attica.
(c) Agora.
(d) Persia.

5. Priestesses answer practical questions of the present and future here.
(a) Eleusis.
(b) Telesterium.
(c) Apollo at Delphi.
(d) Clepsydra Fountain.

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. Who serve as police officers, in a sense, in Athens?

3. In 487 BC, laws are passed that dictate candidates for archonship must be chosen in this manner, instead of being elected.

4. This person is the first to do a dramatic reading, thereby beginning the Greek drama.

5. This person, the designer of the building, puts together a team of sculptors to create the sculptures outside the Parthenon.

(see the answer key)

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