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

2. Pindar's poems praised _________________________.
(a) the kind
(b) the intellectuals
(c) the common man
(d) the athletes of the games

3. How many decades separated Sophocles from Aeschylus?
(a) one
(b) two
(c) five
(d) three`

4. What happened to the captured survivors of battles?
(a) they were released after the war's end
(b) they were exchanged for enemy prisoners
(c) they were executed
(d) they became slaves

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Athens, which was a society based on freedom and liberty, was, by the time of Thucydides, known as the ________________.

3. Which of the following is not a play of Sophocles?

4. During the war, Thucydides was _______________________.

5. Thucydides wrote _________________________.

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