Classical Greece Quiz

Which one is a similarity between the Athenian democracy and the current American democracy?

• Government has three branches of power

• Citizens participate directly in government

• Juries can only be composed of 12 jurors

• Only men with 18 years or more were citizens

Who did the Persian Empire help during the Peloponnesian War?

• Corinth

• Athens

• Sparta

• Macedonia

Euclid wrote books about:

• Astronomy

• Physics

• Geometry

• History

What is a colonnade?

• series of columns, each next to the other

• space between the columns and the roof

• Series of standard proportions for building

• Specific type/style of Greek column

It was an important research center in Alexandria, Egypt:

• The Pharos

• Museum

• Library of Alexandria

• Port of Alexandria

Who was the Macedonian king who conquered the Greeks after the Peloponnesian War?

• Pericles

• Aristophanes

• Phillip II

• Alexander

Eratosthenes, Aristarchus and Ptolemy all studied:

• Physics

• Geometry

• History

• Astronomy

Temple in the Athenian Acropolis, dedicated to the goddess Athena:

• The Parthenon

• Epidaurus Theater

• The Agora

• Mount Olympus

Greek city-states stopped rebelling against Alexander the Great, after the destruction of which city:

• Corinth

• Thebes

• Athens

• Sparta

Which were the two types of drama that developed in Greece?

• Comedy and tragicomedy

• Comedy and melodrama

• Tragedy and melodrama

• Tragedy and comedy