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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. Which city did Pindar live in?
(a) Thebes
(b) Crete
(c) Athens
(d) Sparta

2. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
(a) fight their fate
(b) endure their fate because there is no way out
(c) look for a way out
(d) avoid their fate

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

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

5. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?
(a) exaggeration
(b) praise
(c) honesty
(d) fact

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

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

3. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.

4. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?

5. Why is Pindar considered to be important?

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