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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.

2. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?

3. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.

4. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.

5. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?

(see the answer key)

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