8-1 Quiz

story told through the actions of characters

• Fable

• Myth

• Drama

• Oracle

• Oral Tradition

a short tale that teaches a lesson

• Fable

• Myth

• Drama

• Oracle

• Oral Tradition

a priest or priestess who could tell the future

• Fable

• Myth

• Drama

• Oracle

• Oral Tradition

a traditional story about gods and goddesses

• Fable

• Myth

• Drama

• Oracle

• Oral Tradition

the custom of passing along stories by speech

• Fable

• Myth

• Drama

• Oracle

• Oral Tradition

Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their ....

• A. religious beliefs.

• B. love of poetry.

• C. love of sport

• D. political beliefs.

This Greek poet wrote several epic poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad.

• A. Aesop

• B. Odysseus

• C. Croesus

• D. Homer

What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals?

• comedy and tragedy

• myth and fable

• epic and tragedy

• comedy and myth

The three best-known dramatists who wrote Greek tragedies were Aeschylus, Euripides, and ....

• A. Aristophanes.

• B. Homer.

• C. Sophocles.

• D. Aesop.

The ideals that Greeks based their art and architecture on were reason, balance, and ....

• structure

• harmony

• imperfection

• color