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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Hamilton, Greek religion developed from _____________________________.
(a) the elite
(b) the poets, artists and philosophers
(c) the prophets
(d) the priests

2. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.
(a) deeds
(b) way of life
(c) words
(d) speech

3. What characterizes the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) anger
(b) hatred
(c) bitterness
(d) passive acceptance

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

5. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) great intellect
(b) crude
(c) beutiful workmanship
(d) poetic expression

6. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?
(a) one
(b) five
(c) two
(d) three`

7. To the Greek thinkers, religion was ______________________.
(a) a search for the truth
(b) engorced by priests
(c) accepted by all as a necessary evil
(d) tyrannical

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

9. Which role did Aeschylus not fulfill?
(a) writer
(b) costume designer
(c) scenery designer
(d) theater owner

10. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
(a) endure their fate because there is no way out
(b) fight their fate
(c) avoid their fate
(d) look for a way out

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

12. Viewing things as part of the whole applies to all but _______________.
(a) buildings
(b) actors
(c) art
(d) wars

13. Which of the following is not a name associated with Greek tragedy?
(a) Aeschylus
(b) Euripides
(c) Sophocles
(d) Shakespeare

14. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.
(a) Marathon
(b) Athens
(c) Sparta
(d) Salamis

15. Xenophon's book is about _______________________________.
(a) Greek society
(b) the defeat of the Persians
(c) how the retreat of the Ten Thousand was successful
(d) discipline in the military

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Compared to the other tragedians, Euripides is described as the _________________.

3. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?

4. Greek tragedy came into being because _______________________________________.

5. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.

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