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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. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.
(a) inadequately armed
(b) misled
(c) poor fighters
(d) misinformed

2. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
(a) look for a way out
(b) avoid their fate
(c) fight their fate
(d) endure their fate because there is no way out

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

4. Hamilton feels there is a great deal of similarity between Aristophanes and the comedy of ______________________.
(a) sixteenth century England
(b) fifteenth century England
(c) modern day Broadway
(d) seventeenth centiry France

5. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war
(b) the desire for power was not a cause of war
(c) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(d) wars were covered by broken treaties

Short Answer Questions

1. Aeschylus felt that the cause of misery was _____________.

2. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.

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

4. Xenophon felt that ___________________________________.

5. The first scientists were the _________________.

(see the answer key)

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