Ancient Greece Quiz

  The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by performing 

•  Oral traditions such as mythology
• rituals, sacrifices and festivals
• tragedies
• oracles

   Many communities in ancient Greece were separated by mountains and valleys which resulted in

• development of different languages
• development of independent city-states
• construction of advanced roads
• alliances formed for group protection

Who wrote the Odyssey?

• Pericles
• Homer
• Socrates

The library here attracted scholars from all over the world

• Paris
• Athens
• Alexandria

Since Spartan men lived away from home most of the time, Spartan women

• could own property
• could run the estate 
• expected to be strong 
• all of the above

Why was Socrates sentenced to death?

• he opened a university
• because he got people to think by asking questions
• he wanted people to apply reason

The Minoans made their living as 

• traders
• soldiers
• weavers
• farmers

The geography of Greece was dominated by

• rugged ocean coasts
• rich fertile valleys
• mountains and seas
• vast desert plateaus

Greece's mainland can best be described as a(an)

• archipelago
• island
• peninsula

The Hellenistic Era produced a great body of achievements in

• a) science and politics
• b) art and architecture
• c) literature, religion and philosophy 
• d)  science, mathematics, art, architecture, literature, and philosophy