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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 of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Oesipus at Colonus
(b) Oedipus Rex
(c) Electra
(d) Libation-Bearers
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. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?
(a) man has no cont rol over either
(b) outer change does not affect inner control
(c) man can control outer change
(d) outer change brings about inner chance
4. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?
(a) seven
(b) five
(c) twenty three
(d) ninety
5. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?
(a) Socrates
(b) Solon
(c) Plato
(d) Aristotle
Short Answer Questions
1. Thucydides wrote _________________________.
2. Xenophon felt that ___________________________________.
3. Xenophon is famous for his book called __________________________________.
4. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
5. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Sophocles and Aeschylus lived in different times in Athens. How did the Athens of Sophocles differ from the Athens of Aeschylus?
2. To many Greeks, prosperity and wealth are the cause of misery. What was the cause of misery to Aeschylus?
3. What are the four elements in every tragedy?
4. How does Sophocles feel about fate?
5. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?
6. What were Xenophon's views on war?
7. How did Euripides treat religion?
8. What was the outcome of Peloponnesian War?
9. How did the religion of the ancient Greeks develop?
10. What does it mean to say that the Greeks are concerned with life and abstractions from life?
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