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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Sophocles: Quintessence of the Greek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.
(a) draws the moral for his audience
(b) lets the audience draw its own conclusions
(c) introduces humon into the situation
(d) doesn't deal in morales

2. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Electra
(b) Oesipus at Colonus
(c) Libation-Bearers
(d) Oedipus Rex

3. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
(a) Tyrant City
(b) Mighty City
(c) City of Love
(d) City of Freedom

4. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
(a) look for a way out
(b) avoid their fate
(c) fight their fate
(d) endure their fate because there is no way out

5. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.
(a) power brought about its own destruction
(b) the power of the Spartans had to be stopped
(c) the power of the Athenians had to be stopped
(d) wealth attracted the poorer to attack

Short Answer Questions

1. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?

2. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?

3. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.

4. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

5. Who was charged with leadership in the Greek society of Pindar's time?

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