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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 is the view of man?
(a) man is helpless with his fate predetermined
(b) man can sometimes change his fate
(c) there is no such thing as fate
(d) man is not helpless and controls his fate

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

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

4. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Plato
(c) Socrates
(d) Solon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?

2. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.

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

4. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.

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

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