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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which tragedian is considered to be the most modern?
(a) Aeschylus
(b) Sophocles
(c) Euripides
(d) Shakespeare
2. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.
(a) Sparta and Thebes
(b) Athens and Rome
(c) Athens and Sparta
(d) Thebes and Peloponnesia
3. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?
(a) unlimited
(b) boundless
(c) indefinite
(d) limits
4. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war
(b) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(c) wars were covered by broken treaties
(d) the desire for power was not a cause of war
5. 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) there was an atmosphere of evil and doom
(d) it was always night at the castle
6. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?
(a) ninety
(b) seven
(c) five
(d) twenty three
7. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?
(a) they were exchanged for enemy prisoners
(b) they were released after the war's end
(c) they became slaves
(d) they were executed
8. Compared to the other tragedians, Euripides is described as the _________________.
(a) most fatal
(b) most tragic
(c) happiest
(d) saddest
9. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?
(a) holy book
(b) Zeus
(c) dogma
(d) theology
10. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Pericles
(b) Browning
(c) Shakespeare
(d) John Milton
11. Which term does not apply to the Theater of Dionysus?
(a) community
(b) orgies
(c) loss of the sense of isolation
(d) worship
12. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?
(a) Trojan Women
(b) Electra
(c) Antigone
(d) Media
13. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) that men should participate in the games
(b) that there should be leisure time
(c) that men should work
(d) to see what honorable men did for amusement
14. The Greeks viewed things ___________________.
(a) as individual entities
(b) as part of a whole
(c) as extensions of themselves
(d) as separate entities
15. Aeschylus was ______________________.
(a) a writer of prose
(b) the last writer of tragedy
(c) a writer of mystery
(d) the first writer of tragedy
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
2. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?
3. According to Hamilton, tragedy involves _________________________.
4. Xenophon suggested that _____________________________________.
5. Before Aeschylus, Greek drama consisted of ____________________________.
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