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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. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?
(a) sobriety
(b) fair hamony
(c) hedonism
(d) order

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

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

4. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Oedipus Rex
(b) Electra
(c) Libation-Bearers
(d) Oesipus at Colonus

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.

2. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.

3. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

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

5. The Greeks classified Pindar in the ________________________.

(see the answer key)

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