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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Aeschylus: The First Dramatist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which city did Pindar live in?
(a) Thebes
(b) Sparta
(c) Crete
(d) Athens

2. The Persian plan to defeat the Ten Thousand was to _________________________________.
(a) split the force in half
(b) kill all the officers and leaders
(c) make slaves of the leaders
(d) there was no plan

3. Which of the following names is not considered to be one of the imponderables?
(a) Salamis
(b) Marathon
(c) Pliny
(d) Thermopylae

4. Compared to Aristophanes _____________________.
(a) Gilbert is more restrained
(b) neither is risque
(c) both are just as risque
(d) Gilbert is bawdier

5. The Greeks _________________________.
(a) applied no limits to thoughts
(b) limited intellectual thought to priests
(c) limited thought to certain fields
(d) practiced mind control

Short Answer Questions

1. Compared to the Hebrew writing in the Bible, Greek writing is ______________.

2. The war with the Persians ended with the battle at ___________________.

3. Which of the following is not one of the four elements common to every tragedy?

4. Greek writing can be characterized as ______________________.

5. Aeschylus was ______________________.

(see the answer key)

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