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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What characterizes the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) anger
(b) hatred
(c) passive acceptance
(d) bitterness

2. Greek tragedy came into being because _______________________________________.
(a) there was a lot of tragedy in everyday life
(b) life was characterized by human misery
(c) Greek thinking revealed that there was an injustice inherent in nature
(d) Greek audiences like tear-jerkers

3. Aeschylus felt that the cause of misery was _____________.
(a) wealth
(b) prosperity
(c) power
(d) sin

4. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.
(a) Athens
(b) Sparta
(c) Salamis
(d) Marathon

5. According to Hamilton, Greek religion developed from _____________________________.
(a) the priests
(b) the prophets
(c) the poets, artists and philosophers
(d) the elite

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?

2. The most important oracle was at _________________.

3. What is the view of man?

4. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?

5. What is not a similarity between Macbeth and Aeschylus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the four great tragedy writers?

2. IN what way does Xenophon provide a different view of Athens than Thucydides did?

3. Why did Thucydides write a book on the war between Athens and Sparta?

4. What are the characteristics of Greek tragedy?

5. What were Thucydides' views on power and wealth?

6. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

7. Explain why the Theater of Dionysus was a religious experience for the audience.

8. Why did the Peloponnesian War take place?

9. What was the outcome of Peloponnesian War?

10. What is a characteristic of the characters of Aeschylus?

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