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

2. Why is Pindar considered to be important?
(a) he was the last spokesman for the aristocracy
(b) he represented a new movement
(c) he represented the youth
(d) he addressed serious issues

3. Before Aeschylus, Greek drama consisted of ____________________________.
(a) one actor and a chorus
(b) four actors and a chorus
(c) three actors only
(d) the chorus only

4. What was the crime that Socrates committed that resulted in his execution?
(a) support of the Egyptians
(b) criticism of the king
(c) debt
(d) corruption of youth and introduction of new gods

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?

2. Pindar believed that the wealthy and powerful would _____________________________.

3. The spiritual side of the ancient Greeks is _______________________________.

4. The distinction between mind and spirit is important in the area of ___________.

5. What was important to Greek poets?

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