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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. Thucydides wrote _________________________.
(a) The History of the Spartan War
(b) The History of the Trojan War
(c) The History of the Athenian War
(d) The History of the Peloponnesian War

2. Through Xenophon, one can view the life of the _______________________.
(a) youth
(b) military
(c) elite
(d) average man

3. The subject of Greek tragedy came from _________________________.
(a) everyday life
(b) history
(c) the writer's personal life
(d) myths

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

5. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?
(a) seven
(b) twenty three
(c) ninety
(d) five

Short Answer Questions

1. Euripides' view of religion is that _____________________.

2. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?

3. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.

4. To the Greek thinkers, religion was ______________________.

5. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

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

3. What were Xenophon's views on war?

4. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

5. How does Sophocles feel about fate?

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

7. In what way did Aeschylus change Greek drama?

8. What are the characteristics of Greek tragedy?

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

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

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