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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. The Greeks were concerned with _______________________.
(a) spirit only
(b) physical prowess
(c) both mind and spirit
(d) mind only

2. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.
(a) misled
(b) poor fighters
(c) inadequately armed
(d) misinformed

3. Tragedy in drama began with whom?
(a) Egyptians
(b) Greeks
(c) Romans
(d) British

4. Which role did Aeschylus not fulfill?
(a) scenery designer
(b) writer
(c) costume designer
(d) theater owner

5. Aeschylus felt that the cause of misery was _____________.
(a) power
(b) wealth
(c) sin
(d) prosperity

Short Answer Questions

1. Until the time of Aeschylus, poetry was concerned with _____________________________.

2. Who wrote the first Greek tragedy?

3. Hamilton compares Sophocles to ________________.

4. Thucydides felt that ___________________________________.

5. Aeschylus was ______________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the outcome of Peloponnesian War?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what way did Aeschylus change Greek drama?

9. Who are the four great tragedy writers?

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

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