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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Religion of the Greeks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?
(a) prose writers
(b) poets
(c) any kind of writer
(d) comedy writers

2. What was the crime that Socrates committed that resulted in his execution?
(a) debt
(b) corruption of youth and introduction of new gods
(c) support of the Egyptians
(d) criticism of the king

3. Intellectual discussions took place _________________.
(a) in the temples
(b) in the schools
(c) in the forums
(d) wherever men met

4. The Buddhist artist ________________________.
(a) creates what he is told to create
(b) the Buddhists have no interest in art
(c) creates from within
(d) copies, doesn't create

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What characterizes the tragedies of Aeschylus?

3. Which of the following is not one of the four elements common to every tragedy?

4. The Hindu artist ________________________.

5. The games and competitions were considered so important by the Greeks that __________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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