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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) hatred
(b) anger
(c) passive acceptance
(d) bitterness

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

3. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
(a) disaster
(b) acceptance
(c) fighting
(d) struggle

4. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
(a) City of Love
(b) Mighty City
(c) Tyrant City
(d) City of Freedom

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Aeschylus felt that the cause of misery was _____________.

3. Tragedy, in Hamilton's view, ________________________________.

4. Which is one of the two periods of tragedy in literary history?

5. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the Peloponnesian War take place?

3. Sophocles and Aeschylus lived in different times in Athens. How did the Athens of Sophocles differ from the Athens of Aeschylus?

4. How does Sophocles feel about fate?

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

6. What are the characteristics of Greek tragedy?

7. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

8. What are the similarities between Macbeth and the tragedies of Aeschylus?

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

10. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

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