2023 Greek Unit Test

Last Name, First Name

Class Period

• 1st
• 3rd
• 6th
• 7th

1. This is the birthplace of the Minoan civilization.

• Troy
• Crete
• Asia Minor
• Mt. Vernon

2. Which of the following is not a lasting contribution of the Greeks?

• columns
• cuneiform
• Olympics
• theater

3. This Greek mathematician is responsible for the concept seen below.

• Pythagoras
• Aesop
• Pericles
• Achilles

4. The myth about Demeter's heartbreak over missing her daughter, Persephone, while Persephone lives with Hades was used to explain what natural occurrence?

• how spiders came to be.
• the change in the seasons.
• where an echo comes from.
• how the world got olives.

5. Before Greece was united by Philip and Alexander the Great, it functioned as a cluster of

• individual city-states.
• countries.
• townships.
• nations.

6. This Ancient Greek invention allowed the Greeks to communicate more effectively and clearly.

• alphabet.
• epic.
• amphitheater.
• frescoe.

7. Homer and his legacy are important to our studies about Ancient Greece because

• he was a friend of Alexander the Great.
• he wrote epic poems that provide us of an early record of how the Greeks saw the world.
• he invented and made the rules for the Olympic games.
• he redesigned war tactics and machinery to make the Greeks stronger in battle.

8. This father of philosophy was sentenced to death and died from drinking hemlock juice.

• Plato
• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Homer