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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 is not a name associated with Greek tragedy?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Sophocles
(c) Euripides
(d) Aeschylus
2. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) split the force in half
(b) kill all the officers and leaders
(c) make slaves of the leaders
(d) there was no plan
3. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) poetic expression
(b) beutiful workmanship
(c) great intellect
(d) crude
4. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?
(a) outer change does not affect inner control
(b) man can control outer change
(c) man has no cont rol over either
(d) outer change brings about inner chance
5. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a military general
(b) a teacher at the Academy
(c) a temple priest
(d) a Marathon warrior
6. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Electra
(b) Oedipus Rex
(c) Libation-Bearers
(d) Oesipus at Colonus
7. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?
(a) any kind of writer
(b) comedy writers
(c) prose writers
(d) poets
8. What is not a similarity between Macbeth and Aeschylus?
(a) there was an atmosphere of evil and doom
(b) it was always night at the castle
(c) the castles were bright and cheerful places
(d) there was an atmosphere of death
9. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
(a) average man
(b) military
(c) youth
(d) elite
10. The Greek gods and goddesses began with the writing of _____________________________.
(a) Socrates
(b) Plato
(c) Pericles
(d) Homer
11. What is the view of man?
(a) man is helpless with his fate predetermined
(b) there is no such thing as fate
(c) man can sometimes change his fate
(d) man is not helpless and controls his fate
12. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?
(a) hedonism
(b) sobriety
(c) fair hamony
(d) order
13. Until the time of Aeschylus, poetry was concerned with _____________________________.
(a) the reality of life
(b) the beauty of the world
(c) the misery of the world
(d) pain and suffering
14. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) John Milton
(b) Browning
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Pericles
15. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) to see what honorable men did for amusement
(b) that there should be leisure time
(c) that men should work
(d) that men should participate in the games
Short Answer Questions
1. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.
2. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?
3. The most important oracle was at _________________.
4. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.
5. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?
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