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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Religion of the Greeks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Greek acceptance of reality, as given in an oration by Pericles, makes them ___________________________.
(a) exaggerated
(b) warm
(c) seem cold and unemotional
(d) interested in humanity

2. Until the time of Aeschylus, poetry was concerned with _____________________________.
(a) the beauty of the world
(b) pain and suffering
(c) the misery of the world
(d) the reality of life

3. One of the differences in the society of the Greeks was the __________________.
(a) emphasis on fear
(b) role of reason
(c) emphasis on ignorance
(d) lack of caring

4. Xenophon suggested that _____________________________________.
(a) there was no way to end the war
(b) Athens and Sparta hold peace talks at Delphi
(c) Athens merge with Sparta
(d) Athens and Sparta fight to the bitter end

5. Who, among the following, was a teacher?
(a) Aristophanes
(b) Sophocles
(c) Aeschylus
(d) Plato

Short Answer Questions

1. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?

2. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?

3. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.

4. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?

5. According to Hamilton, Greek religion developed from _____________________________.

(see the answer key)

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