SparkNotes: The Birth of Tragedy: Quiz

Man is the perfect artist when he creates which thing?

(A) The Divine Comedy of Life

(B) The principium individuationis

(C) The beautiful appearance of the dream worlds

(D) The manifestation of the principle of reason

Which of these aspects does not form the essence of Dionysian music?

(A) The incomparable world of harmony

(B) The symbolic power of phenomenon

(C) The emotional power of the tone

(D) The uniform flow of the melos

How did the Greek man cope with the terror and horror of existence?

(A) He recognized that death was the best thing for all men anyway

(B) He sank into a deep and sorrowful depression

(C) He decided to triumph over it with their intellects

(D) He interposed the radiant dream-birth of the Olympians between himself and life

What sort of artist was Archilochus?

(A) A Dionysian lyricist

(B) An objective observer of the Dionysian dream-state

(C) A passionately self-expressive poet

(D) A musical subjectivist

What musical form did Archilochus introduce into literature?

(A) The New Attic Dithyramb

(B) The choral hymn

(C) The folk-song

(D) Socratic Lyricism

According to Nietzsche, what is the role of the chorus in tragedy?

(A) The beholder of the visionary scene

(B) The ideal spectator

(C) The Apollonian critic

(D) The political arbiter

The dithyrambic chorus is a chorus of:

(A) Conscious actors, who speak for the aristocracy

(B) Transformed beings, whose position in society has been forgotten

(C) Apollonian satyrs who create an appearance of nature

(D) Prominent individuals who represent the public interest

According to Nietzsche, Oedipus is:

(A) An example to the audience of the sins of pride

(B) A noble man who succeeds in escaping his fate

(C) A character who leads us by his cheerful example

(D) A noble man who despite his wisdom is fated to misery

How does Apollo attempt to calm individual beings?

(A) By metaphorically carrying them on his shoulders, like Atlas

(B) By destroying the boundaries that Dionysus draws around the will

(C) By drawing boundary lines between them

(D) By imposing a regimen of Egyptian restraint

What is the fate of myth under the influence of tragic poetry?

(A) Myth is abandoned as a restrictive and didactic medium

(B) Myth is born anew and used to express Apollonian wisdom

(C) Myth is enshrined as an example of the archaic worldview

(D) Myth is born anew and serves as the vehicle for Dionysian wisdom

Who attacked the spirit of tragedy in his theatrical works?

(A) Aristophanes

(B) Philemon

(C) Euripides

(D) Menander

What replaces Dionysian ecstasies in Euripidean drama?

(A) Fiery passions

(B) Cool, paradoxical thoughts

(C) Apollonian intuitions

(D) Esthetic Socratism

Which of these men was not named by the temple of Apollo at Delphi for his surpassing wisdom?

(A) Socrates

(B) Aeschylus

(C) Sophocles

(D) Euripides

What is responsible for driving music out of tragedy?

(A) Philosophic thought

(B) The prototype of the novel

(C) Optimistic dialectic

(D) Apollonian aesthetics

Which of these things does the theoretical man not do?

(A) After the truth is unveiled, he looks to that which still remains veiled.

(B) He strives to make existence seem intelligible and therefore justified.

(C) He attempts to reach down into the depths of being with his thought

(D) He gets enjoyment and satisfaction out of the veil that has been cast off from truth.

According to Nietzsche, what is music?

(A) A beautiful form

(B) An immediate copy of the will

(C) A copy of the phenomenon

(D) A specific aesthetic language

Which of the choices below does not exemplify the degeneration of tragedy in the New Attic Dithyramb?

(A) Music is manipulated so as to imitate phenomena and to arouse pleasure through external analogies

(B) The character is no longer expanded into an eternal, mythical type, but rather must develop individually

(C) Greek cheerfulness is brought to new heights

(D) The individual phenomenon is enriched and expanded into a picture of the world

What does scientific optimism succeed in doing?

(A) It shows that all the riddles of the universe are intelligible and solvable

(B) It elevates the phenomenon to the position of reality

(C) It shows that space, time, and causality are unconditional laws of the universe.

(D) It inaugurates a tragic culture

Which of the following does opera not represent?

(A) The birth of the theoretical man as the critical layman

(B) The reawakening of Old Greek music

(C) The victory of text over music

(D) The idyllic belief that every sentient man is an artist

What, according to Nietzsche, was the current academic trend of his day?

(A) Enthusiastic research into the links between German and Greek culture

(B) The abandonment of long-standing historiographical thinking

(C) A general consensus that the rebirth of Greek tragedy was at hand

(D) The skeptical abandonment of the Hellenic ideal

Which of the following is not an effect of the Apollonian influence?

(A) When watching a tragic drama, man believes that he is seeing a detached picture of the world

(B) Man delights in individuals and gives them his sympathy

(C) Myth as a symbol is ineffective and unnoticed

(D) We believe the illusion that the Dionysian is in service of the Apollonian

Which of the following is true of the aesthetic hearer?

(A) He falls beneath the powerful artistic spell of tragedy

(B) He focuses on the moral messages imbedded in tragedy

(C) He appreciates art by means of his critical approach

(D) He understands that pathos is no matter of aesthetic play

Which of the following is not true of the abstract man unguided by myth?

(A) His artistic imagination is impoverished

(B) He has a consuming desire for knowledge

(C) He is able to tap into the primitive power that lies within the German character

(D) He has no fixed and sacred primitive seat