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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aeschylus believed in the _____________________.
(a) cruelty of man
(b) wrath of God
(c) abuse of power
(d) justice of God

2. Aeschylus was ______________________.
(a) a writer of prose
(b) the first writer of tragedy
(c) the last writer of tragedy
(d) a writer of mystery

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

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

5. Tragedy in drama began with whom?
(a) Romans
(b) Egyptians
(c) British
(d) Greeks

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Hamilton, tragedy is the domain of whom?

2. Who laid the foundation for the Greek democracy?

3. Which of the following is not a play of Euripides'?

4. Thucydides felt that the lesson of the Peloponnesian War was that _____________________________________.

5. What terms would not apply to Xenophon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four elements in every tragedy?

2. To many Greeks, prosperity and wealth are the cause of misery. What was the cause of misery to Aeschylus?

3. Why was Xenophon exiled by Athens?

4. How did Sophocles and Aeschylus differ on their views of freedom and law?

5. In what ways does Sophocles differ from Aeschylus?

6. What were Thucydides' views on power and wealth?

7. What does it mean to say that the Greeks are concerned with life and abstractions from life?

8. How did the religion of the ancient Greeks develop?

9. How are the characters in a Greek play viewed?

10. Where do the subjects of Greek tragedy come from?

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