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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 Greeks had different rules of standards that applied to different people. This is evidence of their ________________.
(a) hypocrisy
(b) laws
(c) values
(d) rules

2. The Greek artist was __________________________.
(a) dictated to by the priests
(b) not creative
(c) unlimited
(d) limited by his mind and what he saw

3. Which of the following is not one of the four elements common to every tragedy?
(a) awe
(b) pity
(c) hilarity
(d) reconciliation

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

5. Who, among the following, was a teacher?
(a) Aeschylus
(b) Sophocles
(c) Aristophanes
(d) Plato

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.

2. Which role did Aeschylus not fulfill?

3. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?

4. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.

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

(see the answer key)

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