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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a Marathon warrior
(b) a temple priest
(c) a teacher at the Academy
(d) a military general

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

3. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Oesipus at Colonus
(b) Electra
(c) Libation-Bearers
(d) Oedipus Rex

4. The Greeks were concerned with _______________________.
(a) physical prowess
(b) both mind and spirit
(c) mind only
(d) spirit only

5. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.
(a) useful to others
(b) factual without any use to others
(c) ornately written
(d) interesting to read

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

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

8. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?
(a) Trojan Women
(b) Antigone
(c) Media
(d) Electra

9. Xenophon felt that ___________________________________.
(a) all states should seek power
(b) diplomacy should be used to avert war
(c) disputes should be settled by war
(d) states should be orientated toward war

10. According to Hamilton, tragedy involves _________________________.
(a) the suffering of the soul
(b) torture
(c) physical pain
(d) death

11. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
(a) acceptance
(b) fighting
(c) struggle
(d) disaster

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

13. The tragedies of Aeschylus present death and suffering in a way that __________________________.
(a) does not depress the audience
(b) makes it comical
(c) brings the audience to tears
(d) depresses the audience

14. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?
(a) poets
(b) prose writers
(c) comedy writers
(d) any kind of writer

15. Which tragedian is considered to be the most modern?
(a) Sophocles
(b) Euripides
(c) Aeschylus
(d) Shakespeare

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.

3. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?

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

5. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?

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