Chapter 6.1 Assessment

Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their

• religious beliefs.

• love of poetry.

• love of sports.

• political beliefs

This Greek poet wrote several epic poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad.

• Aesop

• Oddyseus

• Croesus

• Homer

What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals?

• comedy & tragedy

• myth & fable

• epic & tragedy

• comedy & myth

The three best-known dramatists who wrote Greek tragedies were Aeschylus, Euripides, and

• Arisophones.

• Homer.

• Sophocles.

• Aesop.

The three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings were Doric, Ionic, and

• Athenian.

• Corinthian.

• Parthenon.

• Gregorian.

a short tale that teaches a lesson

• fable

• myth

• legend

• epic

Choice, a long poem about heroic deeds

a long poem about heroic deeds

• epic

• fable

• oral tradition

• oracle

a priest or priestess who could tell the future

• priest

• Aesop

• oracle

• epic

a traditional story about Gods and Goddesses

• myth

• epic

• fable

• oracle

the custom of passing along stories by speech

• oracle

• myth

• legend

• oral tradition