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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, The Way of the Modern World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Compared to the other tragedians, Euripides is described as the _________________.
(a) happiest
(b) saddest
(c) most tragic
(d) most fatal

2. Greek tragedy came into being because _______________________________________.
(a) Greek thinking revealed that there was an injustice inherent in nature
(b) Greek audiences like tear-jerkers
(c) life was characterized by human misery
(d) there was a lot of tragedy in everyday life

3. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a teacher at the Academy
(b) a Marathon warrior
(c) a military general
(d) a temple priest

4. Herodotus' History is concerned with ___________________________.
(a) the history of the godw
(b) the war with Sparta
(c) his travels and the Persian War
(d) life in Athens

5. In the ancient world, before the rise of Athens and the Greeks, the greatest civilization was ________________.
(a) Sparta
(b) Rome
(c) Egypt
(d) Crete

Short Answer Questions

1. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?

2. Xenophon felt that ___________________________________.

3. In Egypt ___________________________.

4. How did the Greeks feel about slavery?

5. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.

(see the answer key)

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