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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) wars were covered by broken treaties
(d) the desire for power was not a cause of war

4. Euripides' view of religion is that _____________________.
(a) the gods had to be obeyed
(b) the gods were superior to humans
(c) religion and gods are ignoreed
(d) the gods were inferior to humans

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

6. Sophocles differs from Aeschylus in that Sophocles ______________________________.
(a) draws the moral for his audience
(b) doesn't deal in morales
(c) lets the audience draw its own conclusions
(d) introduces humon into the situation

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

8. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?
(a) beutiful workmanship
(b) poetic expression
(c) crude
(d) great intellect

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) Mighty City
(d) City of Love

15. To the Greek thinkers, religion was ______________________.
(a) tyrannical
(b) engorced by priests
(c) a search for the truth
(d) accepted by all as a necessary evil

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the view of man?

2. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?

3. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?

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

5. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?

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