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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. In Greece, the role of the priests _____________________________.
(a) was to function as advisors
(b) covered all intellectual activitries
(c) was to teach the population
(d) was limited to matters of religion only

2. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.
(a) moral corruption
(b) a lack of the spiritual
(c) physical slovenliness
(d) physical and spiritual perfection

3. Who was the first writer to condemn slavery?
(a) Pericles
(b) Euripides
(c) Aeschylus
(d) Sophocles

4. The Egyptians believed that when a man died _____________________________________.
(a) the body must return to dust
(b) it didn't matter what he was surrounded with
(c) they would destroy the body
(d) he should have with him the same kind of things that he had in life

5. The world's first academy was in _____________________.
(a) Crete
(b) Sparta
(c) Athens
(d) Rome

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following would you expect to give the shortest account of a situation?

2. Tragedy, in Hamilton's view, ________________________________.

3. Why is Pindar considered to be important?

4. What characterizes the tragedies of Aeschylus?

5. Greek art is based on _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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