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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Euripides: The Modern Mind.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?
(a) Trojan Women
(b) Electra
(c) Media
(d) Antigone
2. What does Hamilton consider to be the greatest of all Greek poetry?
(a) history
(b) odes
(c) the poetry in Greek comedy
(d) the poetry in Greek tragedy
3. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) beutiful workmanship
(b) poetic expression
(c) great intellect
(d) crude
4. The only sources of knowledge in Greece were the _______________.
(a) oracles
(b) schools
(c) libraries
(d) temples
5. By the time Aristophanes began writing, Greek drama was ________________________.
(a) past its summit
(b) gaining in popularity
(c) nonesixtent
(d) at its summit
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following is not a name associated with the Athens civilization of this time?
2. As a young man, Xenophon was ________________________.
3. Euripides' view of religion is that _____________________.
4. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?
5. The freedom of Athenian thought and expression led to ____________________.
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