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

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

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

4. The Greek aristocracy_______________________.
(a) were not honorable men
(b) had its own standard to live by
(c) lived by the same standards as others
(d) were liars and cheaters

5. The Greeks classified Pindar in the ________________________.
(a) ornate school of writing
(b) simple school of writing
(c) aristocratic school of writing
(d) austere school of writing

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the view of man?

2. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.

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

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

5. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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