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

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

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

4. As a result of the Peloponnesian War, _______________________________________.
(a) the Athenian culture spread
(b) Sparta merged wih Athens
(c) the Athenian culture and its contirubtions to the world ended
(d) Sparta adopted the Athenian culture

5. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Libation-Bearers
(b) Oedipus Rex
(c) Electra
(d) Oesipus at Colonus

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the terms Hamilton uses to describe the works of Sophocles?

2. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?

3. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.

4. After traveling, Xenophon went to live in _____________.

5. The most important oracle was at _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

2. Who are the four great tragedy writers?

3. How did Euripides treat religion?

4. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

5. To many Greeks, prosperity and wealth are the cause of misery. What was the cause of misery to Aeschylus?

6. What are the characteristics of Greek tragedy?

7. How did the religion of the ancient Greeks develop?

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

9. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand was Xenophon's claim to fame. What was it?

10. How are the characters in a Greek play viewed?

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