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 differency 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