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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. Which tragedian is considered to be the most modern?
(a) Aeschylus
(b) Euripides
(c) Sophocles
(d) Shakespeare

2. In both literary periods of tragedy, what was not true?
(a) thrilling things were happening
(b) they were periods of great military victories
(c) they were times of darkness and defeat
(d) times were prosperous

3. In Greek drama, the characters are viewed as ______________________.
(a) as scenery
(b) as separate and individual entities
(c) part of the whole
(d) as separate and distinct individuals

4. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a Marathon warrior
(b) a teacher at the Academy
(c) a military general
(d) a temple priest

5. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?
(a) fair hamony
(b) hedonism
(c) order
(d) sobriety

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Aeschylus, Greek drama consisted of ____________________________.

2. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.

3. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Xenophon's views on war?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who are the four great tragedy writers?

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