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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.
(a) interesting to read
(b) useful to others
(c) factual without any use to others
(d) ornately written

3. The subject of Greek tragedy came from _________________________.
(a) the writer's personal life
(b) myths
(c) everyday life
(d) history

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

5. Xenophon because wealthy by __________________________.
(a) working
(b) ransoming a rich Persian noble
(c) by being a successful businessman
(d) from his father's estate

6. Xenophon's book is about _______________________________.
(a) discipline in the military
(b) the defeat of the Persians
(c) Greek society
(d) how the retreat of the Ten Thousand was successful

7. Xenophon felt that ___________________________________.
(a) all states should seek power
(b) diplomacy should be used to avert war
(c) disputes should be settled by war
(d) states should be orientated toward war

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

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

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

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

12. What is not a similarity between Macbeth and Aeschylus?
(a) it was always night at the castle
(b) the castles were bright and cheerful places
(c) there was an atmosphere of death
(d) there was an atmosphere of evil and doom

13. Which term does not apply to the Theater of Dionysus?
(a) worship
(b) community
(c) loss of the sense of isolation
(d) orgies

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

15. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) that men should participate in the games
(b) that men should work
(c) to see what honorable men did for amusement
(d) that there should be leisure time

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the view of man?

3. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.

4. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?

5. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?

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