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

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

4. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
(a) average man
(b) elite
(c) youth
(d) military

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

6. The tragedies of Aeschylus present death and suffering in a way that __________________________.
(a) brings the audience to tears
(b) depresses the audience
(c) does not depress the audience
(d) makes it comical

7. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?
(a) Sophocles
(b) Pericles
(c) Euripides
(d) Aeschylus

8. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?
(a) they were times of darkness and defeat
(b) they were periods of great military victories
(c) times were prosperous
(d) thrilling things were happening

9. Thucydides wrote _________________________.
(a) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(b) The History of the Athenian War
(c) The History of the Spartan War
(d) The History of the Trojan War

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

11. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) wars were covered by broken treaties
(b) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(c) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war
(d) the desire for power was not a cause of war

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

13. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.
(a) Athens was weaker than Sparta
(b) both were powerful
(c) both were weak
(d) Sparta was weaker than Athens

14. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) Romeo and Juliet
(b) Macbeth
(c) King Lear
(d) Hamlet

15. Xenophon is famous for his book called __________________________________.
(a) The Treatise on War
(b) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(c) Anbasis
(d) A History of War