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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Aeschylus believed in the _____________________.
(a) abuse of power
(b) cruelty of man
(c) justice of God
(d) wrath of God
2. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?
(a) intelligent
(b) honest
(c) kind
(d) devious
3. In Greek drama, the characters are viewed as ______________________.
(a) as scenery
(b) part of the whole
(c) as separate and distinct individuals
(d) as separate and individual entities
4. Before Aeschylus, Greek drama consisted of ____________________________.
(a) the chorus only
(b) three actors only
(c) one actor and a chorus
(d) four actors and a chorus
5. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) kill all the officers and leaders
(b) split the force in half
(c) there was no plan
(d) make slaves of the leaders
6. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?
(a) Pericles
(b) Aeschylus
(c) Sophocles
(d) Euripides
7. Euripides wrote the Trojan Women to _______________________________.
(a) glorify war
(b) explain the effects of the war between Athens and Sparta
(c) glorify the victors of war
(d) show how war appears to and affects captive women
8. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a military general
(b) a teacher at the Academy
(c) a Marathon warrior
(d) a temple priest
9. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.
(a) the Athenian culture and its contirubtions to the world ended
(b) Sparta adopted the Athenian culture
(c) the Athenian culture spread
(d) Sparta merged wih Athens
10. In designing a Greek building, the Greek architect takes into consideration ___________________.
(a) the outline against the sky
(b) the setting
(c) the ornateness of the building itself
(d) the building's relation to the hills and sea
11. According to Hamilton, Greek religion developed from _____________________________.
(a) the elite
(b) the priests
(c) the prophets
(d) the poets, artists and philosophers
12. Aeschylus was ______________________.
(a) a writer of mystery
(b) the last writer of tragedy
(c) a writer of prose
(d) the first writer of tragedy
13. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?
(a) man has no cont rol over either
(b) man can control outer change
(c) outer change does not affect inner control
(d) outer change brings about inner chance
14. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.
(a) Sparta
(b) Marathon
(c) Athens
(d) Salamis
15. The Greeks were concerned with _______________________.
(a) spirit only
(b) physical prowess
(c) mind only
(d) both mind and spirit
Short Answer Questions
1. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?
2. Viewing things as part of the whole applies to all but _______________.
3. Xenophon's book is about _______________________________.
4. Which of the following is not a name associated with Greek tragedy?
5. What is the view of man?
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