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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is not a similarity between Macbeth and Aeschylus?

2. In Greek drama, the characters are viewed as ______________________.

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

4. Of the ninety plays that Aeschylus wrote, how many have survived?

5. Euripides wrote his plays how many years after Aeschylus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Sophocles feel about fate?

4. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

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

6. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

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

8. How did Euripides treat religion?

9. In what way did Aeschylus change Greek drama?

10. What are the characteristics of Greek tragedy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why can't mankind achieve the balance and greatness that the Greeks had? What is this balance and why can't it be re-achieved? How did it lead to the greatness of the ancient Greek society and their contributions to the world?

Essay Topic 2

What are your impressions of the ancient Greeks and their accomplishments? Do you think they can or have been duplicated? Why or why not? Do you think they will every be duplicated? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the difference between the mind and the spirit, as discussed in the book. What activities are belong to which realm and why? Why is the distinction important? How did the Athenians come to make this distinction?

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