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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. Euripides wrote his plays how many years after Aeschylus?
(a) one hundred
(b) seventy
(c) fifty
(d) ten

2. Tragedy in drama began with whom?
(a) British
(b) Greeks
(c) Romans
(d) Egyptians

3. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.
(a) inadequately armed
(b) poor fighters
(c) misled
(d) misinformed

4. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Socrates
(d) Solon

5. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) make slaves of the leaders
(b) there was no plan
(c) kill all the officers and leaders
(d) split the force in half

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?

2. What was the major issue in the war with the Persians?

3. According to Pericles, _________________________.

4. What is the view of man?

5. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

(see the answer key)

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