Unit 5: Quiz 2 Greek Culture

Which of the following helped the Greeks express their religion?

• Dramas
• Fables
• Mythology
• Tragedies

Who was the Greek poet who wrote the epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey?

• Homer
• Aesop
• Croesus
• Tragedy

Drama was a style of storytelling the Greeks invented...what were the two main types they performed?

• tragedy & comedy
• myth & fable
• comedy & fable
• tragedy & myth

If a Greek dramatist wrote a story that had a happy ending...what would you call it?

• comedy
• drama
• tragedy
• fable

Greek architecture is considered "classic" in areas around the world today. What famous element is recreated often in modern buildings?

• The use of columns.
• The use of stone.
• The use of roofs.
• The use of agoras.

Aesop wrote many of the stories in which the characters went through and experience that taught them, and the reader, a  lesson. What were these stories called?

• myths
• fables
• tragedys
• dramas

What would you call a long poem describing Mr. Hochsprung's heroic deeds?

• an epic
• a fable
• a comedy
• a tragedy

Stories about the gods and goddesses of Greece would be a...?

• myth
• fable
• comedy
• epic

Before writing was invented, how were stories shared and passed along to future generations?

• Oral Tradition
• Hieroglyphics
• Comedies
• Epics

Which of the following strategies best matches how the Greeks used the Trojan Horse?

• To intimidate and scare the Tojans into surrendering.
• To bribe the Trojans with a huge gift to make them want peace.
• To trick the Trojans into bringing the enemy into Troy.
• To distract the Trojans so that they could escape back to their ships.