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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. Reality to the ancient Egyptian, was directed toward _____________________.
(a) on art and culture
(b) on life itself
(c) on life and death
(d) where he would go after life

2. Who, among the following, was a teacher?
(a) Aeschylus
(b) Plato
(c) Aristophanes
(d) Sophocles

3. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?
(a) man can control outer change
(b) outer change does not affect inner control
(c) man has no cont rol over either
(d) outer change brings about inner chance

4. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
(a) fighting
(b) struggle
(c) disaster
(d) acceptance

5. Marathon was the site of ____________________________.
(a) the Athenian victory over Sparta
(b) the Athenian victory over Rome
(c) the Athenian victory over the Persians
(d) the Persian victory over Athens

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?

2. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

3. Tragedy, in Hamilton's view, ________________________________.

4. In Egypt ___________________________.

5. Compared to Aristophanes _____________________.

(see the answer key)

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