Greek Contributions, Ch. 31

The word alphabet comes from which two letters in the Greek alphabet?

• the first two

• the two in the middle

• the last two

Greeks invented

• drama.

• agriculture.

• dance.

• hieroglyphics.

What parts of writing are also taken from the Greeks?

• Grammar

• Punctuation

• Paragraphs

In Ancient Greece there were many different forms of government. Which form do we have in the United States?

• Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

• Democracy

In ancient Greece, only men could vote. Who can vote in the United States?

• All men.

• Men and women.

• Only men who are US Citizens.

• All citizens, including men, women, and people from other countries who have become US Citizens.

Modern medicine still uses the Hippocratic Oath, which is a ___ that all doctors take.

• class

• promise

• job

• lesson

Hippocrates taught his students to...

• carefully observe what they saw with their patients.

• blame their patients' illnesses on the gods.

• write down/record what they saw with their patients.

• see the patient's injury as a punishment.

___ is called the "Father of Modern Medicine."

• Aristarchus

• Euclid

• Hippocrates

• Pythagoras

Greek medical students figured out that the heart pumps blood throughout the body. It is part of the ___ system.

• skeletal

• circulatory

• nervous

• muscular

In geometry, the pathagorium theorem is:

• a + b = c

• a x b = c

• a² + b² = c²

• a² x b² = c²