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2021 Ancient Greece Test Review

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Using your Greece Map: Landform almost surrounded by water or jutting out into a body of water like Greece!

a)

Isthmus

b)

Pier

c)

Peninsula

d)

Island

2.

Using your map: strip of land that connects two larger land masses.

a)

Harbor

b)

Peninsula

c)

Pier

d)

Isthmus

3.

Using your map: This large sea surrounds Greece and Italy. It also connected Mesopotamia and Egypt to Greece!

a)

North Sea

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Baltic Sea

d)

Black Sea

4.
A monarchy is?
a)
Rule by a King or Queen
b)
Rule by the people
c)
Rule by a small group
5.

An import is?

a)

Goods coming INTO a country

b)

Goods going OUT of a country

c)

Goods that don't leave a country

6.

This physical feature isolated Greece and divided them

a)

Deserts

b)

Oceans

c)

Mountains

d)

Rivers

7.

A Greek city-state

a)

Polis

b)

Politics

c)

Country

d)

Continent

8.

The art and practice of government

a)

Democrats

b)

Politics

c)

Republicans

d)

Polis

9.

A member of a city-state with rights and made the laws

a)

Citizen

b)

Foreigners

c)

Women

d)

Slaves

10.

Conquered group of people called Messenians who were forced to farm for Spartans took on the name

a)

Persians

b)

Slaves

c)

Helots

d)

Trojans

11.

Which group had few rights, stayed home and took care of families? Two possible answers

a)

Spartan Women

b)

Athenian Women

c)

Greek Women

12.

What group of women could own/sell property and trained in sports

a)

Athenian Women

b)

Spartan Women

c)

Greek Women

13.

What city-state gained more farmland and resources by conquering their neighbors

a)

Sparta

b)

Athens

c)

Thebes

d)

Delos

14.

A hereditary class of rulers, means “rule by the best people”

a)

Democracy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Aristocracy

d)

Monarchy

15.

Political system in which citizens participate directly in making laws and decisions

a)

Direct Democracy

b)

Representative Democracy

c)

Democracy

16.

A type of government ruled by a small group of people, usually rich and wealthy.

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Tyranny

d)

Democracy

17.

Rule by the many, rule by the people is a form of government found in ancient Greece called?

a)

Oligarchy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Tyranny

18.

Citizens elect others to represent them in government, make decisions and pass laws on behalf of all people

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Democracy

c)

Tyranny

d)

Oligarchy

19.

A formation of foot soldiers who moved together as a unit.

a)

Phalanx

b)

Sarissa

c)

Calvary

d)

Legion

20.

A government run by a strong ruler

a)

Monarchy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Tyranny

d)

Democracy

21.

A city-state organized for the purpose of waging war and had a strong military. Choose TWO!

a)

Military State

b)

Democracy

c)

Tyranny

d)

Sparta

22.

This city-state colonized, had democracy for government, focused on learning, loved change and innovation

a)

Sparta

b)

Athens

c)

Persia

d)

Corinth

23.

Greek victory over the Persian army during the second Persian War, victory on water

a)

Battle of Salamis

b)

Battle of Thermopolaye

c)

Battle of Marathon

d)

Battle of the Bulge

24.

A military alliance led by Sparta because some city-states feared Athens

a)

Peloponnesian League

b)

Delian League

c)

Greek League

d)

Persian League

25.

A military alliance led by Athens promising to protect one another from Persia

a)

Delian League

b)

Peloponnesian League

c)

Greek League

26.

Greek victory over the Persian army that ended the first Persian War, victory on land

a)

Battle of Salamis

b)

Battle of Marathon

c)

Battle of Thermopolaye

d)

Battle of Baltics

27.

A type of war where an outside group or country attacks. Example Persian Wars when Persia attacked Greece.

a)

Invasion

b)

Civil War

c)

Revolution

d)

World War

28.

A type of war where two groups within a country fight each other. Example Athens fighting Sparta.

a)

Invasion

b)

Civil War

c)

World war

d)

Revolution

29.

He conquered most of the known world at a young age and died of a fever at age 33.

a)

King Phillip

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Xerxes

d)

Themisticles

30.

An oath taken by medical students promising to do no harm to patients

a)

Hippocratic Oath

b)

Hypothesis

c)

Pledge of Allegiance

d)

Surgical Oath

31.

A logical guess made from observations

a)

Hypothesis

b)

Hippocratic Oath

c)

Science Experiment

d)

Random Answers

32.

Collection of myths or stories people told about their gods and heroes

a)

Mythology

b)

Fables

c)

Fairy Tale

d)

Disney Movies

33.

Athletic competition held every four years in ancient Greece in honor of Zeus

a)

Science Olympiad

b)

Olympic Games

c)

Special Olympics

d)

Para Olympics

34.

Ancient Greece left us with many ideas such as?

a)

Self-Government; rule by the People

b)

Kings and Queens should still rule countries

c)

Tyrants are good leaders need today

d)

Rich and Wealthy citizens should hold all the power

35.

Father of history

a)

Hercules

b)

Socrates

c)

Herodotus

d)

Theimsticles

36.

This Greek taught people to question ideas and was sentenced to death.

a)

King Philip

b)

Pericles

c)

Darius

d)

Socrates