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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 Egyptians believed that when a man died _____________________________________.
(a) it didn't matter what he was surrounded with
(b) the body must return to dust
(c) they would destroy the body
(d) he should have with him the same kind of things that he had in life

2. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.
(a) a great struggle
(b) calmness, serenity and absence of struggle
(c) a great deal of violence
(d) emotional upheaval

3. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?
(a) third
(b) fourth
(c) fifth
(d) second

4. What is one of the presumptions of Aristophanes' plays?
(a) the audience is ignorant of literature
(b) the audience must be educated
(c) the audience is aware of the current thought and literature
(d) the audience will not understand his points without the chorus

5. Poetic license ________________________________________.
(a) requires briefness
(b) allows the poet to write in whatever way he wants
(c) requires facts
(d) calls for simple statements

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hamilton, tragedy involves _________________________.

2. What was the crime that Socrates committed that resulted in his execution?

3. The Greeks classified Pindar in the ________________________.

4. Opposition to slavery was open and evident in the time of ______________.

5. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.

(see the answer key)

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