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

2. The Greek architecture of the time was _________________________________.
(a) influenced by the East
(b) highly ornate
(c) followed the style of the Egyptians
(d) a simple expression of the intellect

3. What does Hamilton consider to be the greatest of all Greek poetry?
(a) history
(b) the poetry in Greek comedy
(c) the poetry in Greek tragedy
(d) odes

4. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) wars were covered by broken treaties
(b) the desire for power was not a cause of war
(c) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(d) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war

5. Which of the following terms did not apply to the Greek city state?
(a) harmony
(b) freedom
(c) balance
(d) misery of life

Short Answer Questions

1. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.

2. Which of the following is not one of the four elements common to every tragedy?

3. The first scientists were the _________________.

4. Herodotus is classified as a writer of ____________________.

5. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?

(see the answer key)

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