Topic 6 Lesson 4 Reading Quiz Multiple Choice

Women had the most freedom in this Greek polis:

• Sparta

• Athens

• Thebes

• Egypt

Women from richer families in Athens mainly:

• stayed home

• went shopping

• served on juries

• worked in the fields

Men from richer families in Athens mainly:

• took part in public life

• worked in the fields

• stayed home

• trained for battle

All __________ had the right to vote

• men

• women

• citizens

• free foreigners

Another name for tenant farmer:

• helot

• thete

• metic

• resident alien

Most slaves were:

• metics

• abandoned children

• people in debt

• prisoners of war

What was the name of Odysseus's wife?

• Becky

• Susan

• Bertha

• Penelope

• Sarah

By the mid-6th century B.C., this city-state took control of the Peloponnesus:

• Messenia

• Sparta

• Athens

• Olympia

What was the best spot to found a colony?

• in the mountains

• on the coast

• within five miles of the home city-state

• near a major empire

• in a canyon

What symbolized the bond between a new colony and the original city-state?

• a flame

• a chicken

• a statue of Zeus

• a rubber band