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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aeschylus was ______________________.
(a) the last writer of tragedy
(b) a writer of prose
(c) a writer of mystery
(d) the first writer of tragedy

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

3. Thucydides wrote _________________________.
(a) The History of the Athenian War
(b) The History of the Peloponnesian War
(c) The History of the Spartan War
(d) The History of the Trojan War

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

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

6. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?
(a) hedonism
(b) fair hamony
(c) order
(d) sobriety

7. The Greek gods and goddesses began with the writing of _____________________________.
(a) Homer
(b) Pericles
(c) Plato
(d) Socrates

8. Tragedy, in Hamilton's view, ________________________________.
(a) is a mixture of pain and pleasure
(b) is a mixture of comedy and sadness
(c) makes people cry
(d) makes people sad

9. What did the Greeks view as important in men?
(a) the personal qualities of the individual
(b) his lifestyle
(c) the qualities the individual shared with mankind
(d) the manner of presentation

10. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) Romeo and Juliet
(b) King Lear
(c) Hamlet
(d) Macbeth

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

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

13. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?
(a) outer change does not affect inner control
(b) man can control outer change
(c) outer change brings about inner chance
(d) man has no cont rol over either

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term does not apply to the Theater of Dionysus?

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

3. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.

4. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

5. Which is one of the two periods of tragedy in literary history?

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