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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. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?
(a) indefinite
(b) unlimited
(c) boundless
(d) limits

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

3. What was important to Greek poets?
(a) imagery
(b) ornateness
(c) meter
(d) symbolism

4. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?
(a) they were exchanged for enemy prisoners
(b) they became slaves
(c) they were released after the war's end
(d) they were executed

5. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?
(a) exaggeration
(b) honesty
(c) praise
(d) fact

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Greek aristocracy_______________________.

3. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.

4. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.

5. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.

(see the answer key)

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