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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. The city is accessed through many of these built into the city walls.
(a) Ladders.
(b) Gates,
(c) Windows.
(d) Dungeons.

2. Although no pictures of these have been found, we know these existed in fifth century Athens.
(a) Cranes.
(b) Canons.
(c) Ships.
(d) Engines.

3. What is the only crime in Athens for which a woman can divorce her husband?
(a) Continued abuse.
(b) Adultery.
(c) Theft.
(d) Murder.

4. Sophocles is said to have introduced this.
(a) Music.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Masks.
(d) Scenery.

5. Early Athenian tragedies are based on these.
(a) Bible stories.
(b) Personal stories.
(c) Well known legends.
(d) Children's literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Priestesses answer practical questions of the present and future here.

2. The final day of the festival is devoted to this.

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

4. These houses are cut into the hillside.

5. This event consists of discus, long jump, javelin, sprinting, and wrestling.

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