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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. Tragedy, in Hamilton's view, ________________________________.
(a) makes people sad
(b) is a mixture of pain and pleasure
(c) makes people cry
(d) is a mixture of comedy and sadness

2. Xenophon's book is about _______________________________.
(a) discipline in the military
(b) how the retreat of the Ten Thousand was successful
(c) Greek society
(d) the defeat of the Persians

3. According to Schopenhauer, what world applies to the tragedies of Sophocles?
(a) struggle
(b) disaster
(c) acceptance
(d) fighting

4. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.
(a) Mighty City
(b) City of Freedom
(c) City of Love
(d) Tyrant City

5. Xenophon suggested that _____________________________________.
(a) there was no way to end the war
(b) Athens and Sparta hold peace talks at Delphi
(c) Athens and Sparta fight to the bitter end
(d) Athens merge with Sparta

Short Answer Questions

1. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.

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

3. According to Hamilton, tragedy involves _________________________.

4. Viewing things as part of the whole applies to all but _______________.

5. What did Sophocles feel about inner versus outer control?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Retreat of the Ten Thousand was Xenophon's claim to fame. What was it?

2. Why did Euripides write Trojan Women?

3. Who are the four great tragedy writers?

4. Why did the Peloponnesian War take place?

5. What are the characteristics of Greek tragedy?

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

7. In what way did Aeschylus change Greek drama?

8. How did Euripides treat religion?

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

10. How did Sophocles and Aeschylus differ on their views of freedom and law?

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