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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Greek drama, the characters are viewed as ______________________.
(a) as separate and individual entities
(b) as separate and distinct individuals
(c) part of the whole
(d) as scenery

2. Sophocles felt that honor of men was expressed by their ______________.
(a) way of life
(b) deeds
(c) words
(d) speech

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

4. Greek tragedy is characterized by ____________________________________.
(a) calmness, serenity and absence of struggle
(b) a great struggle
(c) emotional upheaval
(d) a great deal of violence

5. Which word does not have a bad connotation to the Greeks?
(a) limits
(b) indefinite
(c) unlimited
(d) boundless

6. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?
(a) Trojan Women
(b) Media
(c) Electra
(d) Antigone

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

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

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

10. Viewing things as part of the whole applies to all but _______________.
(a) buildings
(b) actors
(c) wars
(d) art

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

12. Which one of Shakespeare's tragedies comes closest to the tragedies of Aeschylus?
(a) King Lear
(b) Hamlet
(c) Romeo and Juliet
(d) Macbeth

13. Aeschylus had been ________________________-.
(a) a Marathon warrior
(b) a military general
(c) a teacher at the Academy
(d) a temple priest

14. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.
(a) power brought about its own destruction
(b) the power of the Spartans had to be stopped
(c) the power of the Athenians had to be stopped
(d) wealth attracted the poorer to attack

15. The Athenians and Spartans fought because _________________________.
(a) Sparta was weaker than Athens
(b) Athens was weaker than Sparta
(c) both were weak
(d) both were powerful

Short Answer Questions

1. Xenophon felt that ___________________________________.

2. The subject of Greek tragedy came from _________________________.

3. Xenophon because wealthy by __________________________.

4. Aeschylus believed in the _____________________.

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

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