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

2. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.
(a) the Athenian culture spread
(b) Sparta merged wih Athens
(c) the Athenian culture and its contirubtions to the world ended
(d) Sparta adopted the Athenian culture

3. According to Pericles, _________________________.
(a) repetition is good
(b) words are to be used sparingly
(c) the longer a passage is, the better it is
(d) writing should be ornate

4. Which Pharaoh opposed the priests?
(a) Ra
(b) Cleopatra
(c) Julius Caesar
(d) Akhenaton

5. What was not a function of the chorus?
(a) to dance
(b) to answer questions from the audience
(c) to present the author's views and opinions
(d) to sing

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

2. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.

3. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.

4. Which of the following is not one of the plays of Aristophanes?

5. Euripides wrote the Trojan Women to _______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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