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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. What characterizes the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) anger
(b) passive acceptance
(c) hatred
(d) bitterness

2. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.
(a) introduces humon into the situation
(b) doesn't deal in morales
(c) draws the moral for his audience
(d) lets the audience draw its own conclusions

3. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) great intellect
(b) poetic expression
(c) crude
(d) beutiful workmanship

4. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.
(a) the intellectuals
(b) the athletes of the games
(c) the kind
(d) the common man

5. Xenophon because wealthy by __________________________.
(a) ransoming a rich Persian noble
(b) from his father's estate
(c) working
(d) by being a successful businessman

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Herodotus' History is concerned with ___________________________.

3. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?

4. The primary interest of the ancient Egyptians was a preoccupation with _______________.

5. By the time Aristophanes began writing, Greek drama was ________________________.

(see the answer key)

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