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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?
(a) Aristotle
(b) Solon
(c) Plato
(d) Socrates

4. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.
(a) way of life
(b) deeds
(c) words
(d) speech

5. In designing a Greek building, the Greek architect takes into consideration ___________________.
(a) the building's relation to the hills and sea
(b) the ornateness of the building itself
(c) the outline against the sky
(d) the setting

6. In Greek drama, the characters are viewed as ______________________.
(a) part of the whole
(b) as separate and individual entities
(c) as scenery
(d) as separate and distinct individuals

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

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

9. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.
(a) Sparta adopted the Athenian culture
(b) the Athenian culture and its contirubtions to the world ended
(c) Sparta merged wih Athens
(d) the Athenian culture spread

10. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war
(b) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(c) the desire for power was not a cause of war
(d) wars were covered by broken treaties

11. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?
(a) indefinite
(b) boundless
(c) limits
(d) unlimited

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

13. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?
(a) thrilling things were happening
(b) times were prosperous
(c) they were times of darkness and defeat
(d) they were periods of great military victories

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

15. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?
(a) one
(b) two
(c) three`
(d) five

Short Answer Questions

1. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.

2. Which of the following is not a name associated with Greek tragedy?

3. The Greek gods and goddesses began with the writing of _____________________________.

4. Euripides wrote his plays how many years after Aeschylus?

5. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?

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