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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 only trilogy to survive from ancient Athens is this.
(a) Clytemnestra.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Argos.
(d) Oresteia.

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

3. Ancient walls around the city are believed to have been built in ____.
(a) 5th century BC.
(b) Both 5th and 6th century BC.
(c) 8th century AD.
(d) 6th century BC.

4. These types of Athenian houses are often built in connection to other houses.
(a) Workshop houses.
(b) Semi-detached houses.
(c) Block houses.
(d) Hill houses.

5. What is / are the most common forms of punishment in ancient Athens?
(a) Flogging and branding.
(b) Execution.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) Fines, confiscation of property, loss of rights, or exile.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The meat of a sacrificed animal is ____________.

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

4. Sophocles is said to have introduced this.

5. Who is considered to this day to be the father of medicine, from Athens?

(see the answer key)

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