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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. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.
(a) the athletes of the games
(b) the common man
(c) the kind
(d) the intellectuals

2. What was important to Greek poets?
(a) meter
(b) symbolism
(c) imagery
(d) ornateness

3. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.
(a) Thebes and Peloponnesia
(b) Athens and Sparta
(c) Athens and Rome
(d) Sparta and Thebes

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

5. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.
(a) doesn't deal in morales
(b) lets the audience draw its own conclusions
(c) introduces humon into the situation
(d) draws the moral for his audience

Short Answer Questions

1. The Greek aristocracy_______________________.

2. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?

3. Of all the Greek poets, Pindar is described as the _____________________________.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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