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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. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?
(a) indefinite
(b) unlimited
(c) limits
(d) boundless

2. The literature indicates that life differed in Athens, as compared to Egypt, by which century?
(a) fifth
(b) third
(c) second
(d) fourth

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

4. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.
(a) the Athenian culture and its contirubtions to the world ended
(b) Sparta merged wih Athens
(c) the Athenian culture spread
(d) Sparta adopted the Athenian culture

5. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
(a) elite
(b) average man
(c) youth
(d) military

Short Answer Questions

1. Euripides' view of religion is that _____________________.

2. Compared to the other tragedians, Euripides is described as the _________________.

3. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.

4. The Greek architecture of the time was _________________________________.

5. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.

(see the answer key)

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