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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Aeschylus: The First Dramatist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term used to describe the Greek artist is ______________________.
(a) spiritual materialists
(b) realist
(c) symbolist
(d) abstractionist

2. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.
(a) wealth attracted the poorer to attack
(b) the power of the Spartans had to be stopped
(c) power brought about its own destruction
(d) the power of the Athenians had to be stopped

3. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?
(a) they were periods of great military victories
(b) they were times of darkness and defeat
(c) thrilling things were happening
(d) times were prosperous

4. Who does Hamilton compare the work of Aristophanes to?
(a) Milton
(b) Poe
(c) Gilbert
(d) Longfellow

5. The Greeks _________________________.
(a) limited thought to certain fields
(b) practiced mind control
(c) applied no limits to thoughts
(d) limited intellectual thought to priests

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.

2. Greek art is based on _________________________.

3. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.

4. Greek writing can easily ________________________________________.

5. Greek writing is based on __________________.

(see the answer key)

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