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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Xenophon: The Ordinary Athenian Gentleman.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marathon was the site of ____________________________.
(a) the Athenian victory over the Persians
(b) the Persian victory over Athens
(c) the Athenian victory over Sparta
(d) the Athenian victory over Rome

2. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.
(a) represented by the gods and goddesses they believed in
(b) montheistic
(c) nonexistant
(d) not important in the life of the ancient Greeks

3. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?
(a) kind
(b) honest
(c) intelligent
(d) devious

4. What was characteristic of Greek art?
(a) mind and spirit in equal balance
(b) mind stronger than spirit
(c) mind and spirit have no effect on art
(d) spirit stronger than mind

5. Greek writing can be characterized as ______________________.
(a) full of symbolism
(b) complicated
(c) plain and matter of fact
(d) flowery

Short Answer Questions

1. Herodotus is known as ______________.

2. The only sources of knowledge in Greece were the _______________.

3. What word best describes the ancient Athenians?

4. The Greeks _________________________.

5. What does Hamilton consider to be the greatest of all Greek poetry?

(see the answer key)

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