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

2. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.
(a) useful to others
(b) interesting to read
(c) ornately written
(d) factual without any use to others

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

4. The poetry of Pindar is described as _________________.
(a) full of symbolism
(b) musical
(c) full of imagery
(d) sing-songy

5. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Pericles
(b) John Milton
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Browning

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Pindar considered to be important?

2. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?

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

4. What is the view of man?

5. Who was charged with leadership in the Greek society of Pindar's time?

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