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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Euripides wrote the Trojan Women to _______________________________.
(a) explain the effects of the war between Athens and Sparta
(b) glorify the victors of war
(c) show how war appears to and affects captive women
(d) glorify war

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

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

4. Euripides wrote his plays how many years after Aeschylus?
(a) ten
(b) one hundred
(c) seventy
(d) fifty

5. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?
(a) twenty three
(b) ninety
(c) five
(d) seven

6. The only sources of knowledge in Greece were the _______________.
(a) schools
(b) libraries
(c) oracles
(d) temples

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

8. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
(a) elite
(b) youth
(c) military
(d) average man

9. 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 Freedom
(c) City of Love
(d) Mighty City

10. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?
(a) they were executed
(b) they were released after the war's end
(c) they were exchanged for enemy prisoners
(d) they became slaves

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the view of man?

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

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

4. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.

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

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