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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Sophocles: Quintessence of the Greek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sophocles' characters ________________________________.
(a) endure their fate because there is no way out
(b) look for a way out
(c) fight their fate
(d) avoid their fate

2. Which of the following does not describe Pindar's writing?
(a) fact
(b) exaggeration
(c) honesty
(d) praise

3. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?
(a) Oesipus at Colonus
(b) Libation-Bearers
(c) Oedipus Rex
(d) Electra

4. Thucydides wanted his work to be ________________________.
(a) useful to others
(b) factual without any use to others
(c) ornately written
(d) interesting to read

5. Which of the following terms would not represent the views of Sophocles?
(a) fair hamony
(b) order
(c) sobriety
(d) hedonism

Short Answer Questions

1. To Pindar, the Greek aristocracy represented ___________________________.

2. Thucydides wrote a history of the war between ______________________.

3. Thucydides feels that the Athenians lost the war because they were ________________.

4. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?

5. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.

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