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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. Why is Pindar considered to be important?
(a) he represented the youth
(b) he was the last spokesman for the aristocracy
(c) he addressed serious issues
(d) he represented a new movement

2. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.
(a) misled
(b) misinformed
(c) inadequately armed
(d) poor fighters

3. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.
(a) physical slovenliness
(b) moral corruption
(c) physical and spiritual perfection
(d) a lack of the spiritual

4. What is the view of man?
(a) man can sometimes change his fate
(b) there is no such thing as fate
(c) man is helpless with his fate predetermined
(d) man is not helpless and controls his fate

5. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
(a) fighting
(b) acceptance
(c) disaster
(d) struggle

Short Answer Questions

1. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.

2. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?

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

4. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.

5. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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