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WorksheetsGreece Test Review
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 28mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who fought in the Persian Wars?
a)
Athens and Sparta
b)
Greeks and Trojans
c)
Greeks and Persians
d)
Romans and Greeks
2.
Who had Athens rebuilt after it's destruction in the Persian Wars?
a)
Plato
b)
Socrates
c)
Solon
d)
Pericles
3.
Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?
a)
Greeks and Persians
b)
Greeks and Trojans
c)
Athens and Sparta
d)
Romans and Greeks
4.
Greeks mythology was based on what type of religion?
a)
Monotheism
b)
Polytheism
c)
Christianity
d)
Zoroastrianism
5.
What two seas surround the peninsulas of Greece and Peloponnesus?
a)
Mediterranean and Adriatic
b)
Mediterranean and Aegean
c)
Aegean and Black
d)
Aegean and Adriatic
6.
Who adopted Greek culture and spread Hellenistic influences throughout his vast empire?
a)
Philip II
b)
Alexander the Great
c)
Xerxes
d)
Pericles
7.
What does oligarchy mean?
a)
rule by a few
b)
rule by a king
c)
rule by the people
d)
rule by the rich
8.
What Greek city-state was ruled by an oligarchy?
a)
Athens
b)
Troy
c)
Thebes
d)
Sparta
9.
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
a)
Homer
b)
Sophocles
c)
Oedipus
d)
Themistocles
10.
Following the Peloponnesian Wars, Greece was weakened allowing it to be conquered by whom?
a)
Alexander of Macedonia
b)
Philip II of Macedonia
c)
Pericles of Athens
d)
Julius Caesar of Rome
11.
What city state started as a monarchy and ended up as a direct democracy?
a)
Sparta
b)
Athens
c)
Olympia
d)
Troy
12.
Who is the man that ended debt slavery in Athens?
a)
Solon
b)
Socrates
c)
Alexander
d)
Draco
13.
Which of these was NOT a nomadic group that settled down in Greece?
a)
Minoans
b)
Dorians
c)
Mycenaeans
d)
Macedonians
14.
What empire attempted to take over Athenian colonies in Asia Minor (Anatolia)?
a)
Trojan
b)
Assyrian
c)
Persian
d)
Mongol
15.
Why did the Greeks fight the Trojans?
a)
Paris kidnapped Helen
b)
Troy owed them money
c)
conquer land
d)
to try out their wooden horse
16.
During which war did this take place?
a)
Trojan
b)
Persian
c)
Peloponnesian
d)
Alexander's war on Persia
17.
The story of the Trojan War is retold in the
a)
Republic
b)
Odyssey
c)
Trojan War
d)
Iliad
18.
Who was the leader of the Persians when they FIRST tried to take Athens?
a)
Cyrus
b)
Darius
c)
Xerxes
d)
Alexander
19.
The Athenians defeated the Persians at what naval battle?
a)
Salamis
b)
Artemesium
c)
Marathon
d)
Thermopylae
20.
How long was the run from Marathon to Athens, giving us the modern day length of a marathon?
a)
2.6 miles
b)
26.2 miles
c)
262 miles
d)
26.2 kilometers
21.
When the Persians launched their SECOND attack against the Greeks, who was their leader?
a)
Cyrus
b)
Darius
c)
Xerxes
d)
Alexander
22.
What alliance was created by the Greek city states to fend off further attacks by the Persians?
a)
Delian
b)
Persian
c)
Peloponnesian
d)
Periclean
23.
What city state dominated the Delian League?
a)
Athens
b)
Sparta
c)
Thebes
d)
Delphi
24.
Who won the Persian Wars?
a)
Athens
b)
Sparta
c)
Greece
d)
Persia
25.
Which philosopher used questioning techniques to reach his students?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Alexander the Great
26.
Which philosopher taught Plato and was condemned to death for corrupting the youth?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Alexander the Great
27.
Which philosopher wrote The Republic because he did not agree with the workings of democracy?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristole
d)
Alexander the Great
28.
Which of the following was NOT a Greek playwright?
a)
Sophocles
b)
Aristophanes
c)
Hippocrates
d)
Aeschylus
29.
How old was Alexander the Great when he took over and when he died?
a)
20/32
b)
23/30
c)
23/32
d)
20/30
30.
Which of the following can NOT be found in the orange shaded region
a)
Pharroah's Lighthouse
b)
Museum
c)
Hanging Gardens
d)
Library
31.
Who is known as the "father of history" for his work in writing The Persian Wars?
a)
Herodotus
b)
Livy
c)
Thucydides
d)
Homer
32.
Who believed in order to properly depict/record history you must do research?
a)
Herodotus
b)
Livy
c)
Thucydides
d)
Homer
33.
Who stressed the avoidance of bias in recording the Peloponnesian Wars?
a)
Herodotus
b)
Livy
c)
Thucydides
d)
Homer
34.
Who believed that you must avoid pleasures and had a philosophy termed Stoicism?
a)
Zeno
b)
Siddhartha
c)
Euripides
d)
Epicurus
35.
Who was the father of modern day geometry?
a)
Pythagoras
b)
Euclid
c)
Archimedes
d)
Aristarchus
36.
What text contains the thoughts of Euclid?
a)
Analects
b)
Elements
c)
Rebublic
d)
Ramayana
37.
Which of the following plays was a comedy about the Peloponnesian War?
a)
Oedipus
b)
Prometheus Bound
c)
Lysistrata
d)
Iliad
38.
Who is the father of modern medicine due to his ethical beliefs in the medical profession?
a)
Euripides
b)
Eratosthenes
c)
Archimedes
d)
Hippocrates
39.
Who instituted direct democracy in Athens, leading to a golden age named for him?
a)
Themistocles
b)
Pericles
c)
Cleisthenes
d)
Xerxes
40.
Which of the following, by Sophocles, was about a man who killed his dad & married his mom?
a)
Oedipus Rex
b)
Medea
c)
Prometheus Bound
d)
Lysistrata
41.
What was the battle tactic used by the Athenians to defeat the Persians?
a)
Dory
b)
Helot
c)
Phalancx
d)
Cavalry
42.
It is the place where temples were built in Greek city states. (above the city)
a)
polis
b)
acropolis
c)
agora
d)
Parthenon
43.
What is this temple built to honor Athena called?
a)
Parthenon
b)
Pantheon
c)
Phidias
d)
Athens
44.
At what age did a Spartan child have to join the military?
a)
5
b)
7
c)
9
d)
12
45.
What peninsula is home to ancient Greece?
a)
Balkan
b)
Italian
c)
Iberian
d)
Yucatan
46.
What city did the Greeks sail to in order to bring home Helen, their queen?
a)
Troy
b)
Crete
c)
Sparta
d)
Athens
47.
What geographical feature caused Greece to be independent city states?
a)
Mountains
b)
Seas
c)
Islands
d)
Rivers
48.
The greatest of all Alexandrias was located here.
a)
Greece
b)
Anatolia
c)
Macedonia
d)
Egypt
49.
Who ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens delivering the news of Greek victory?
a)
Phidias
b)
Pheidippedes
c)
Pericles
d)
Eratosthenes
50.
The term for a Greek city state
a)
acropolis
b)
polis
c)
agora
d)
polista
51.
What is the type of government in which thousands of people were needed to make all decisions?
a)
limited democracy
b)
legislative democracy
c)
direct democracy
d)
democratic republic
52.
What caused over 33% of the Athenian population to die during the Peloponnesian War?
a)
epedimiology
b)
plague
c)
plaque
d)
ebola
53.
What is the type of government in which thousands of people were needed to make all decisions?
a)
Persian
b)
Indian
c)
Gaelic
d)
Egyptian
54.
What was the name of the battle where the "Last Stand" of the Spartan 300 took place?
a)
Salamis
b)
Thermopylae
c)
Leonidas
d)
Marathon
55.
Who developed a lever and pulley system, accurately estimated pi, and created the first screw?
a)
Aristarchus
b)
Eratosthenes
c)
Euripides
d)
Archimedes
56.
What is a government which is ruled by members of the upper class, known as aristocrats?
a)
oligarchy
b)
monarchy
c)
aristocracy
d)
democracy
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