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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. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.
(a) introduces humon into the situation
(b) lets the audience draw its own conclusions
(c) doesn't deal in morales
(d) draws the moral for his audience

2. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
(a) youth
(b) military
(c) elite
(d) average man

3. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?
(a) thrilling things were happening
(b) they were times of darkness and defeat
(c) they were periods of great military victories
(d) times were prosperous

4. The Greek gods and goddesses began with the writing of _____________________________.
(a) Homer
(b) Pericles
(c) Socrates
(d) Plato

5. Who was the only Athenian to suffer death for his opinions?
(a) Socrates
(b) Aristophanes
(c) Plato
(d) Aristotle

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms does not describe Greek writing?

2. Which Pharaoh opposed the priests?

3. One way to learn the values of a society is to look at ______________________.

4. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.

5. Opposition to slavery was open and evident in the time of ______________.

(see the answer key)

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