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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Pindar: The Last Greek Aristocrat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which city did Pindar live in?
(a) Sparta
(b) Athens
(c) Thebes
(d) Crete

2. The Buddhist artist ________________________.
(a) creates what he is told to create
(b) the Buddhists have no interest in art
(c) copies, doesn't create
(d) creates from within

3. The freedom of Athenian thought and expression led to ____________________.
(a) the basis for science
(b) panic
(c) fear
(d) confusion

4. The term used to describe the Greek artist is ______________________.
(a) abstractionist
(b) realist
(c) spiritual materialists
(d) symbolist

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Pericles, _________________________.

2. In the ancient world, before the rise of Athens and the Greeks, the greatest civilization was ________________.

3. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.

4. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.

5. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?

(see the answer key)

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