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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) meter
(d) ornateness

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

3. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.
(a) way of life
(b) words
(c) deeds
(d) speech

4. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Browning
(b) John Milton
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Pericles

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.

2. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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