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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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

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

5. Which is one of the two periods of tragedy in literary history?
(a) the Constantinople of the Ottomans
(b) the Rome of Julius Caesar
(c) the Athens of Pericles
(d) the England of Henry V

6. Aeschylus was ______________________.
(a) a writer of mystery
(b) the first writer of tragedy
(c) a writer of prose
(d) the last writer of tragedy

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

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

9. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.
(a) the power of the Athenians had to be stopped
(b) power brought about its own destruction
(c) the power of the Spartans had to be stopped
(d) wealth attracted the poorer to attack

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

11. As a young man, Xenophon was ________________________.
(a) sent to study with Socrates
(b) sent to Athens to find a wife
(c) sent to work in Athens
(d) exiled from Sparta

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Thucydides wrote _________________________.

2. According to Hamilton, Greek religion developed from _____________________________.

3. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.

4. Compared to the other tragedians, Euripides is described as the _________________.

5. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

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