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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) that men should work
(b) that men should participate in the games
(c) that there should be leisure time
(d) to see what honorable men did for amusement

2. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?
(a) Pericles
(b) Euripides
(c) Sophocles
(d) Aeschylus

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

4. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Pericles
(b) Shakespeare
(c) John Milton
(d) Browning

5. What is the view of man?
(a) man is helpless with his fate predetermined
(b) man can sometimes change his fate
(c) man is not helpless and controls his fate
(d) there is no such thing as fate

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

7. Aeschylus felt that the cause of misery was _____________.
(a) sin
(b) power
(c) wealth
(d) prosperity

8. The subject of Greek tragedy came from _________________________.
(a) myths
(b) everyday life
(c) the writer's personal life
(d) history

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

10. Before Aeschylus, Greek drama consisted of ____________________________.
(a) four actors and a chorus
(b) three actors only
(c) one actor and a chorus
(d) the chorus only

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

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

13. Xenophon is famous for his book called __________________________________.
(a) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(b) The Treatise on War
(c) A History of War
(d) Anbasis

14. Greek tragedy came into being because _______________________________________.
(a) life was characterized by human misery
(b) there was a lot of tragedy in everyday life
(c) Greek audiences like tear-jerkers
(d) Greek thinking revealed that there was an injustice inherent in nature

15. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.
(a) Athens was weaker than Sparta
(b) Sparta was weaker than Athens
(c) both were powerful
(d) both were weak

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?

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

3. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.

4. The Greek gods and goddesses began with the writing of _____________________________.

5. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?

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