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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, Euripides: The Modern Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Greeks feel about slavery?
(a) It was evil
(b) They opposed slavery
(c) There were no slaves
(d) It was an accepted way of life

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

3. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?
(a) order
(b) hedonism
(c) sobriety
(d) fair hamony

4. The style of Greek writing is _____________________________________.
(a) more ornate than English writing
(b) the same as English writing
(c) very different from the styles of English writing
(d) incapable of being translated into English

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?

2. Which role did Aeschylus not fulfill?

3. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

4. In the ancient world, before the rise of Athens and the Greeks, the greatest civilization was ________________.

5. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.

(see the answer key)

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