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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. Viewing things as part of the whole applies to all but _______________.
(a) buildings
(b) actors
(c) art
(d) wars

2. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.
(a) Sparta was weaker than Athens
(b) both were weak
(c) Athens was weaker than Sparta
(d) both were powerful

3. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.
(a) Shakespeare
(b) John Milton
(c) Browning
(d) Pericles

4. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?
(a) man can control outer change
(b) outer change brings about inner chance
(c) man has no cont rol over either
(d) outer change does not affect inner control

5. What is the view of man?
(a) man is not helpless and controls his fate
(b) man can sometimes change his fate
(c) man is helpless with his fate predetermined
(d) there is no such thing as fate

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following terms applies to the religion of the ancient Greeks?

3. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.

4. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.

5. Euripides wrote the Trojan Women to _______________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

2. Why was Xenophon exiled by Athens?

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

4. What was the outcome of Peloponnesian War?

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

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

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

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

9. What does it mean to say that the Greeks are concerned with life and abstractions from life?

10. How does Sophocles feel about fate?

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