View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following is not one of the four elements common to every tragedy?
(a) hilarity
(b) awe
(c) pity
(d) reconciliation

3. Xenophon is famous for his book called __________________________________.
(a) A History of War
(b) The Treatise on War
(c) Anbasis
(d) The History of the Peloponnesian War

4. Until the time of Aeschylus, poetry was concerned with _____________________________.
(a) the misery of the world
(b) the beauty of the world
(c) the reality of life
(d) pain and suffering

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?

2. What did the Greeks view as important in men?

3. Which role did Aeschylus not fulfill?

4. The Greeks were concerned with _______________________.

5. According to Hamilton, tragedy involves _________________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

3. Why did the Peloponnesian War take place?

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

5. Why did Euripides write Trojan Women?

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

7. What is a characteristic of the characters of Aeschylus?

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

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

10. How did Euripides treat religion?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 538 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample