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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. Hamilton compares reading Aristophanes to reading a _________________.
(a) sports page
(b) comic book
(c) romance novel
(d) newspaper

2. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Browning
(b) John Milton
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Pericles

3. The term used to describe the Greek artist is ______________________.
(a) realist
(b) spiritual materialists
(c) abstractionist
(d) symbolist

4. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) to see what honorable men did for amusement
(b) that men should participate in the games
(c) that men should work
(d) that there should be leisure time

5. How old was Herodotus at the time of the defeat of the Persians?
(a) twenty
(b) ten
(c) thirty-five
(d) forty

Short Answer Questions

1. Greek art is based on _________________________.

2. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?

3. Greek writing can easily ________________________________________.

4. Tragedy in drama began with whom?

5. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?

(see the answer key)

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