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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. The Hindu artist ________________________.
(a) was dictated to by Hindu priests
(b) had no freedom
(c) had the most freedom
(d) had limited freedom

2. Greek art is based on _________________________.
(a) the reality of what the artist sees
(b) symboliswm
(c) the orders of the priests
(d) abstractions of reality

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

4. What is not a similarity between Macbeth and Aeschylus?
(a) the castles were bright and cheerful places
(b) there was an atmosphere of evil and doom
(c) there was an atmosphere of death
(d) it was always night at the castle

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.

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

3. Who, among the following, was a teacher?

4. Greek writing can be characterized as ______________________.

5. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?

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