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

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

3. Xenophon felt that it was significant ________________________________.
(a) that men should participate in the games
(b) to see what honorable men did for amusement
(c) that men should work
(d) that there should be leisure time

4. According to Hamilton, tragedy involves _________________________.
(a) physical pain
(b) the suffering of the soul
(c) death
(d) torture

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?

2. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?

3. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.

4. Euripides wrote his plays how many years after Aeschylus?

5. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why did the Peloponnesian War take place?

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

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

8. What was the outcome of Peloponnesian War?

9. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

10. Where do the subjects of Greek tragedy come from?

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