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

2. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) crude
(b) great intellect
(c) beutiful workmanship
(d) poetic expression

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

4. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) the desire for power was not a cause of war
(b) wars were covered by broken treaties
(c) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(d) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Pindar believed that the wealthy and powerful would _____________________________.

4. Which city did Pindar live in?

5. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.

(see the answer key)

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