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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 play of Sophocles?
(a) Libation-Bearers
(b) Oedipus Rex
(c) Oesipus at Colonus
(d) Electra
2. In Greek drama, the characters are viewed as ______________________.
(a) as separate and distinct individuals
(b) as separate and individual entities
(c) as scenery
(d) part of the whole
3. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?
(a) holy book
(b) theology
(c) Zeus
(d) dogma
4. In designing a Greek building, the Greek architect takes into consideration ___________________.
(a) the outline against the sky
(b) the building's relation to the hills and sea
(c) the ornateness of the building itself
(d) the setting
5. Aeschylus believed in the _____________________.
(a) wrath of God
(b) justice of God
(c) cruelty of man
(d) abuse of power
6. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.
(a) poor fighters
(b) inadequately armed
(c) misled
(d) misinformed
7. Aeschylus felt that the cause of misery was _____________.
(a) sin
(b) prosperity
(c) power
(d) wealth
8. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.
(a) power and wealth created the desire for more power and wealth
(b) the desire for power was not a cause of war
(c) wars were covered by broken treaties
(d) the desire for wealth was not a cause of war
9. Greek tragedy came into being because _______________________________________.
(a) Greek thinking revealed that there was an injustice inherent in nature
(b) life was characterized by human misery
(c) Greek audiences like tear-jerkers
(d) there was a lot of tragedy in everyday life
10. Which tragedian is considered to be the most modern?
(a) Euripides
(b) Aeschylus
(c) Sophocles
(d) Shakespeare
11. Xenophon suggested that _____________________________________.
(a) there was no way to end the war
(b) Athens and Sparta fight to the bitter end
(c) Athens and Sparta hold peace talks at Delphi
(d) Athens merge with Sparta
12. The Greeks were concerned with _______________________.
(a) mind only
(b) physical prowess
(c) both mind and spirit
(d) spirit only
13. Which term does not apply to the Theater of Dionysus?
(a) loss of the sense of isolation
(b) orgies
(c) worship
(d) community
14. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a Marathon warrior
(b) a military general
(c) a temple priest
(d) a teacher at the Academy
15. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.
(a) Athens and Sparta
(b) Sparta and Thebes
(c) Thebes and Peloponnesia
(d) Athens and Rome
Short Answer Questions
1. The most important oracle was at _________________.
2. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?
3. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
4. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
5. Xenophon is famous for his book called __________________________________.
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