Ancient Greece Review

Greece is a peninsula. (a)  

• True
• False

What is the name of the large sea that borders Greece to the south?

• Mediterranean Sea

• Aegean Sea

• Ionian Sea

Where did the Ancient Greeks live?

• Europe

• Asia

• Africa

• North America

What is the mountain located near Athens where the Ancient Greeks believed the gods lived?

• Mt. Fugi

• Mt. Everest

• Mt. Vesuvius 

• Mt. Olympus 

On what type of land did the Greeks live?

• flat with rich soil

• dry and deserts

• rocky and mountainous

• none of the above

How did living in an area with a lot of mountains impact Greek life? 

• They could farm a lot

• They were taken over by pirates a lot

• They could NOT farm a lot

• They became great climbers

Ancient Greece was a

• peninsula with many islands

• tropical rain forest

• city found in the Arctic Circle.

• desert region.

Who was the wife of Zeus; the goddess of marriage?

• Athena
• Hera
• Aphrodite
• Persephone

God of travelers, thieves, messages, a many other things; has winged shoes

• Zeus
• Hermes
• Apollo
• Hades

Was born from Zeus's head; goddess of wisdom, battle strategy

• Hera

• Persephone

• Athena

• Aphrodite