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1. For each of the following statements about the newly discovered manuscripts, select Yes if it can be reasonably inferred from the given information. Otherwise, select No.

Statement 1: The statement is inferable: lyric poetry was composed in the 7th century BCE or later, so it comes after the year 700 BCE.

Answer: Yes

Statement 2: 
The statement is not inferable. Though concerned with the present, lyric poems did at times use Greece’s mythical past as their backdrop. Thus, a poem referring to Greece’s mythical past could have been composed by one of the major lyric poets.

Answer: No

Statement 3: 
The given information tells you that love poems were mainly (if not exclusively) written as solo songs. The table of poets does not list any poet who wrote solo songs after the 6th century. Thus, the newly discovered love songs were probably not composed in the 5th century.

Answer: Yes
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2. For each of the following statements about a newly discovered poem that was composed in the choliambic meter, select Yes if it can be reasonably inferred from the given information. Otherwise, select No.

Statement 1: Hipponax is mentioned as perhaps the only composer of choliambics, and he was a composer of iambic poetry, which is not love poetry. Thus, this statement can be inferred.

Answer: Yes

Statement 2: This statement is inferable: Hipponax lived in the 6th century.

Answer: Yes

Statement 3: This statement cannot be inferred. The given information says that iambic poetry may or may not have been performed to music, and since this choliambic poem was probably by Hipponax, who was a composer of iambic poetry, this poem may or may not have been performed to music.

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3. The poetry of which of the following is most likely to have been performed with musical accompaniment?

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All of these poets except Stesichorus composed mainly elegiac or iambic poems, which did not necessarily make use of musical accompaniment. Stesichorus, on the other hand, composed mainly choral songs, which were always performed to music. Thus, his poetry is the most likely to have been performed with musical accompaniment.

Answer: D
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