Ancient Greece Fun Quiz

The Greeks believed that they could tell the future by examining:

• The organs and insides of dead animals.

• The moon and stars.

• Lamb bones.

• Grape leaves.

In the sixth century B.C., there lived a Greek named Aesop who would tell fables that had a moral. Eventually, the priests:

• Made him a god

• Made him the chief priest

• Made him pay a fable tax

• Threw him off a cliff

After a Spartan woman was married, she:

• Wore a veil

• Cut off her hair and dressed like a man

• Could never leave her house

• Wore a silver ring through her nose

In ancient Sparta, children were considered part of the state. When a child turned seven years old, he was sent to live with a group of other children that was called:

• The herd

• The School

• Kindergarten

• Intramurals

As part of their military training, young Spartans were taught to:

• Grow vegetables

• Kill and cook wild bear

• Steal food

• Fish

The people who lived in Athens were much different from those who lived in Sparta. Spartans were very tough and warlike, while Athenians preferred the arts. Athenians also had temples and worshipped their own gods. The would sometimes offer the gods sacrifices. One ritual involved killing an ox and offering it up as a sacrifice to the gods. After this ritual, they held a trial in order to determine:

• Who killed the ox

• What should be sacrificed next

• Who was the most religious

• Which god was the most powerful

The Greeks would go to oracles to find out what the future held. An oracle is a person, often a priest or priestess, through whom a god was believed to speak. The Corinth Oracle was also very famous because:

• His predictions were always accurate

• The people could hear the gods speak

• The people thought he was a god

• He had won an Olympic race

There were vegetarians in ancient Greece. A vegetarian is someone who does not eat meat. When the ancient Greek vegetarians wanted to make a sacrifice to the gods, they would sacrifice:

• Vegetables

• Lambs

• Nothing

• Fish

After a Greek child was born, the father would inspect him or her. If the baby was a boy and he was fit, the parents might keep him. However, if they had too many other boys, or if the baby was a girl and they could not afford to raise her, they might decide not to keep the baby and would:

• Offer the child for adoption

• Put the child in a pot on a hill to die

• Donate the child to a temple

• Sacrifice the child to a god

Although girls did not go to school, boys did. Whenever a boy went to school, he would always take a slave with him. If the boy did not behave:

• The slave was sent home

• The teacher would beat the slave

• The slave could beat the student

• The slave was killed