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WorksheetsChapter 5 World History
Total questions: 61
Worksheet time: 31mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Narrative Poems
a)
Epics
b)
Myths
c)
Phalanx
d)
Poem
2.
Traditional Stories
a)
Epics
b)
Myth
c)
Moral
d)
Tragedy
3.
Rule by the people
a)
Democracy
b)
Oligarchy
c)
Communism
d)
Dictator
4.
Word for city-state
a)
Polis
b)
Country
c)
Province
d)
State
5.
A serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war or betrayal
a)
Tragedy
b)
Comedy
c)
Alexandria
d)
Elements
6.
War between Sparta and Athens
a)
Peloponnesian War
b)
Marathon
c)
Thermopylae
d)
Selecus
7.
Located just north of Greece, had rough terrain and a cold climate
a)
Macedonia
b)
Athens
c)
Sparta
d)
Carthage
8.
Vowing to crush the invaders, he raised a huge army of between 50,000 and 75,000 to face the Macedonians near Issus
a)
Darius III
b)
Archimedes
c)
Euclid
d)
Eratosthenes
9.
Greek culture blended with Egyptian, Persian, and Indian influences?
a)
Hellenistic
b)
Renaissance
c)
Middle Ages
d)
Bubonic Plague
10.
Accurately estimated the value of pi ration of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
a)
Archimedes
b)
Euclid
c)
Eratosthenes
d)
Hippocrates
11.
Spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks?
a)
Dorians
b)
Myceneans
c)
Minoans
d)
Spartans
12.
People located in southern Greece on a steep, rocky ridge?
a)
Myceneans
b)
Minoans
c)
Dorians
d)
Spartans
13.
Peasants forced to stay on the they worked?
a)
Third Estate
b)
Helots
c)
Peasants
d)
Indentured Servants
14.
They were looked upon as leaders who would work for the interests of the ordinary people?
a)
Tyrants
b)
Dictator
c)
Legislator
d)
Congress
15.
A form of government in which citizens ruled directly and not through representatives?
a)
Direct Democracy
b)
Representative Democracy
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Monarchy
16.
He encouraged Greeks to go farther and question themselves and their moral character?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Zeno
17.
He dreamed of taking control of Greece and then moving against Persia?
a)
Philip II
b)
Alexander the Great
c)
Darius
d)
Xerxes
18.
This occupied a strategic site on the western edge of the Nile Delta?
a)
Alexandria
b)
Cairo
c)
Phoenicia
d)
Jerusalem
19.
Elements contained 465 carefully presented geometry propositions and proofs?
a)
Euclid
b)
Philip II
c)
Eratosthenes
d)
Hippocrates
20.
Bronze statue that stood more than 100 feet high?
a)
Colossus of Rhodes
b)
Parthenon
c)
Pantheon
d)
Mount Rushmore
21.
A blind man who was one of histories greatest storytellers?
a)
Homer
b)
Aristotle
c)
Socrates
d)
Plato
22.
This is where citizens gathered to discuss city government?
a)
Acropolis
b)
Polis
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Plateau
23.
A government ruled by a few powerful people?
a)
Oligarchy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Democracy
d)
Fascism
24.
Meanings "Lovers of Wisdom"
a)
Philosophers
b)
Thespians
c)
Phalanx
d)
Democracy
25.
He questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought, and knowledge?
a)
Aristotle
b)
Plato
c)
Socrates
d)
Zeno
26.
He wrote The Republic?
a)
Aristotle
b)
Plato
c)
Socrates
d)
Zeno
27.
A single person called a king ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families?
a)
Aristocracy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Democracy
d)
Monotheism
28.
A government ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families?
a)
Aristocracy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Democracy
29.
A series of wars between Greece and the Persian Empire, began in Ionia on the east coast of Anatolia?
a)
Persian Wars
b)
Peloponnesian War
c)
Battle of Marathon
d)
Battle of Thermopylae
30.
This became the most powerful fighting force in the ancient world?
a)
Phalanx
b)
Monarchy
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Acropolis
31.
Rugged mountains covered about what fraction of ancient Greece?
a)
1/4
b)
1/2
c)
3/4
d)
3/5
32.
Who suggested stories of the Trojan War might have been based on real cities, people, and events?
a)
Howard Carter
b)
Cleisthenes
c)
Heinrich Schliemann
d)
Herodotus
33.
Who was rule of the Greek Gods?
a)
Apollo
b)
Zeus
c)
Poseidon
d)
Hera
34.
Which Greek Goddess was the Goddess of Wisdom?
a)
Hera
b)
Athena
c)
Cassiopia
d)
Mary
35.
Which Athenian leader outlawed debt slavery?
a)
Draco
b)
Solon
c)
Cleisthenes
d)
Thucydides
36.
Which Athenian leader's code dealt with criminals, making death the punishment for practically every crime?
a)
Draco
b)
Solon
c)
Cleisthenes
d)
Thucydides
37.
Which Athenian leader increased the power of the assembly by allowing all citizens to submit laws for debate and passage?
a)
Draco
b)
Solon
c)
Cleisthenes
d)
Thucydides
38.
Schooling in Athens began around what age?
a)
7
b)
8
c)
17
d)
24
39.
In Sparta, boys left home at what age and moved into army like barracks?
a)
5
b)
6
c)
7
d)
8
40.
Spartan boys stayed in these army like barracks until they were the age of what?
a)
15
b)
20
c)
25
d)
30
41.
Who won at the Battle of Marathon?
a)
Sparta
b)
Persia
c)
Athens
d)
Macedonia
42.
At the Battle of Salamis, Xerxes watched in horror as more than what fraction of his fleet sank?
a)
1/4
b)
1/3
c)
1/2
d)
3/4
43.
At the Battle of Salamis, Xerxes watched in horror as more than WHAT FRACTION on 1/4his fleet sank?
a)
1/4
b)
1/3
c)
1/2
d)
3/4
44.
What famous Greek monument contained examples of Greek art that set standards for future generations of artists around the world?
a)
Arch of Hadrian
b)
Parthenon
c)
Pantheon
d)
Acropolis
45.
Which Greek Author often featured strong women in his work?
a)
Aeschylus
b)
Sophocles
c)
Euripides
d)
Herodotus
46.
Which Greek Author wrote Oresteia, which examines the idea of justice?
a)
Aeschylus
b)
Sophocles
c)
Euripides
d)
Herodotus
47.
Which Greek Author wrote Oedipus the King and Antigone?
a)
Aeschylus
b)
Sophocles
c)
Euripides
d)
Herodotus
48.
Which Greek historian pioneered the accurate reporting of events?
a)
Thucydides
b)
Sophocles
c)
Euripides
d)
Herodotus
49.
Which Greek historian believed that certain types of events and political situations recur over time?
a)
Thucydides
b)
Sophocles
c)
Euripides
d)
Herodotus
50.
During the Peloponesian War, a frightful plague swept through Athens perhaps what fraction of the population died from it?
a)
1/4
b)
1/2
c)
1/3
d)
3/4
51.
In 399 B.C., when what philosopher was 70 years old, he was brought to trial for "corrupting the youth of Athens"?
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Herodotus
52.
At his daughter's wedding in 336 B.C., who was stabbed to death by a former guardsmen?
a)
Darius III
b)
Philip II
c)
Alexander the Great
d)
Socrates
53.
Which nation welcomed Alexander as a liberator?
a)
Athens
b)
Sparta
c)
India
d)
Egypt
54.
Which leader became seriously ill with a fever and died a few days later?
a)
Darius III
b)
Philip II
c)
Alexander the Great
d)
Socrates
55.
Alexander the Great died at what age?
a)
22
b)
32
c)
42
d)
52
56.
At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who took control of most of the old Persian empire?
a)
Antigonus
b)
Ptolemy
c)
Selecus
d)
Darius II
57.
At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who seized Egypt?
a)
Antigonus
b)
Ptolemy
c)
Selecus
d)
Darius III
58.
At the end of Alexander the Great's reign, who became King of Macedonia and took control of the Greek city-states?
a)
Antigonus
b)
Ptolemy
c)
Selecus
d)
Darius III
59.
Who proposed that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun?
a)
Aristarchus
b)
Eratosthenes
c)
Zeno
d)
Archimedes
60.
Who computed Earth's circumference at between 28,000 and 29,000?
a)
Aristarchus
b)
Eratosthenes
c)
Zeno
d)
Archimedes
61.
A Greek philosopher named ____________ founded the school of philosophy called Stoicism?
a)
Aristarchus
b)
Eratosthenes
c)
Zeno
d)
Archimedes
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