1. The most famous classic Greek painting is:
a: the naiads
b. a portrait of Aristarchus
of Samos
c. there are no ancient
Greek paintings
2. Athens and Sparta flowered:
a. five hundred years before
Christ
b. during the time of Christ
c. five hundred years after
Christ
3. The last request of Socrates was:
a: that he be buried
at sea
b. that he not be mourned
c. that a debt be payed
4. Greek poetry from this era could be desribed as:
a. complex,mysterious
b. flowery
c. without artifice
5. The "old" comedy of Athens is best experienced in the works
of:
a: Pindar
b. Aeschuylus
c. Aristophanes
6. A greek of this period was the first man in history to comdemn
slavery. Was he:
a. Plato
b. Euripides
c Protagorus
7. Herodotus was:
a. a character in a play
by Sophocles
b. an historian
c. a sculptor
8. The Greek pantheon (deities) would be most at home these days
a. in a Hollywood
film
b. in a book by J.D.
Salinger
c. in a tv soap opera
9. The prize for an Olympic games victory was:
a. a crown of wild olives
b. an honorary civic post
c. a one-year title of "god."
10. The great king of the Persian wars was named:
a. Xerxes
b. Thermopolae
c. Darius
11. The historian of the Athens/Sparta war was:
a. Thucydides
b. Plutus
c. Hesiod
12. Xeonophon was:
a. a Spartan noble
b. a friend of Socrates
c. the leader of the Great
Retreat
13. The difference between pathos and tragedy is:
a. pathos is uplifting and
tragedy is sad
b. pathos is sad and tragedy
is uplifting
c. there is no difference
14. Aeschylus was:
a. a "Marathon" warrior
b. a Spartan poet
c. the first tragedian
15. The playwright Sophocles would best be described as:
a. a romantic
b. a revolutionary
c. a conservative
16. Euripides would best be described as:
a. a comic playwright
b. a theatrical satirist
c. a tragic poet
17. The sacred religious book of the Greeks was:
a. the Oracle
b. the Iliad
c. they had no sacred
book
18. The tragic character, Clytemnestra, was:
a. a Greek diety
b. the wife of Agamemnon
c. the murderer of
her husband
19. Hecuba, in Euripides' Trojan Women, was:
a. a serving woman
b. the wife of Apollo
c. the queen of Troy
20. Athens was conquored, in the end, by:
a. Persia
b. Rome
c. Sparta
The answers:
1c, 2a, 3c, 4c, 5c, 6b, 7b,
8c, 9a, 10c, 11a, 12abc,
13b, 14ac, 15c, 16c, 17c,
18bc, 19c, 20c