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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?
(a) Zeus
(b) dogma
(c) holy book
(d) theology
2. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Electra
(b) Libation-Bearers
(c) Oedipus Rex
(d) Oesipus at Colonus
3. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
(a) Tyrant City
(b) City of Love
(c) City of Freedom
(d) Mighty City
4. Xenophon is famous for his book called __________________________________.
(a) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(b) A History of War
(c) The Treatise on War
(d) Anbasis
5. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Browning
(b) John Milton
(c) Pericles
(d) Shakespeare
6. What is the view of man?
(a) man is not helpless and controls his fate
(b) there is no such thing as fate
(c) man is helpless with his fate predetermined
(d) man can sometimes change his fate
7. The subject of Greek tragedy came from _________________________.
(a) myths
(b) the writer's personal life
(c) everyday life
(d) history
8. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) that there should be leisure time
(b) to see what honorable men did for amusement
(c) that men should work
(d) that men should participate in the games
9. The Greek gods and goddesses began with the writing of _____________________________.
(a) Pericles
(b) Socrates
(c) Plato
(d) Homer
10. Thucydides wrote _________________________.
(a) The History of the Trojan War
(b) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(c) The History of the Spartan War
(d) The History of the Athenian War
11. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.
(a) ornately written
(b) factual without any use to others
(c) useful to others
(d) interesting to read
12. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?
(a) ninety
(b) twenty three
(c) five
(d) seven
13. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.
(a) Sparta
(b) Salamis
(c) Athens
(d) Marathon
14. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
(a) fight their fate
(b) endure their fate because there is no way out
(c) look for a way out
(d) avoid their fate
15. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?
(a) kind
(b) intelligent
(c) honest
(d) devious
Short Answer Questions
1. What characterizes the tragedies of Aeschylus?
2. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
3. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?
4. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
5. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
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