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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 happened to the captured survivors of battles?
(a) they were released after the war's end
(b) they were executed
(c) they became slaves
(d) they were exchanged for enemy prisoners

2. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
(a) City of Freedom
(b) Mighty City
(c) City of Love
(d) Tyrant City

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

4. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.
(a) a Spartan general
(b) a diplomat
(c) a businessman
(d) an Athenian general

5. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?
(a) one
(b) five
(c) two
(d) three`

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

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

3. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.

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

5. Thucydides wrote _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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