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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This festival held every summer to honor Athena is called this.
(a) Pentalthelon.
(b) Panathenaea.
(c) Pentatrithon.
(d) Pentalia.

2. These allow state payments to be made for performance of civic duty, thereby allowing the poor to participate in politics.
(a) Tributes and levies.
(b) Taxes.
(c) The Boule and levies.
(d) The Boule and tributes.

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

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

5. The central activity of all Greek religion is this.
(a) Sacrifice.
(b) Tithing.
(c) Service.
(d) Prayer.

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

7. This is the common form of Athenian currency.
(a) Thesium.
(b) Enchala.
(c) Drachma.
(d) Dollirium.

8. To stave off future attacks, the Athenians build this to help protect their city.
(a) A cannon.
(b) A bridge.
(c) A large gunship.
(d) A wall.

9. These objects are sparse, and generally made of wood.
(a) Doorways.
(b) Furniture.
(c) Window frames.
(d) Bathtubs.

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

11. A great statue of this goddess stands inside the west end of the central isle of the Parthenon.
(a) Athena.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Aphrodites.
(d) Demeter.

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

13. This event consists of discus, long jump, javelin, sprinting, and wrestling.
(a) Panathenaic.
(b) Triada.
(c) Panhellenic.
(d) Pentathlon.

14. Marriage in Athens is _______.
(a) Arranged.
(b) Forbidden.
(c) Mandatory.
(d) Voluntary.

15. In 487 BC, laws are passed that dictate candidates for archonship must be chosen in this manner, instead of being elected.
(a) By lot.
(b) By an election of kings.
(c) By assembly.
(d) By chance.

Short Answer Questions

1. These are used to channel water to the city of Athens.

2. What do many Athenians do to unwanted children?

3. This is a process used in ancient Athens whereby if a certain number of individuals believe a person to be a threat to democracy, he or she can be banished from the city for ten years.

4. These rooms are so small, they are difficult to distinguish among the ruins of Athenian ruins.

5. Sophocles is said to have introduced this.

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