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Ancient Greek Test Review

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which form of government, that existed in Athens, can you find evidence of in the government of the United States?

a)

Tyrancy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Aristocracy

e)

Democracy

2.

Which form of government did NOT exist within the city-states of Ancient Greece?

a)

Tyrancy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Anarchy

d)

Monarchy

e)

Democracy

3.

What was one of Ancient Greece's largest city-states?

a)

Sparta

b)

Megara

c)

Corinth

d)

Thebes

e)

Athens

4.

Who were wealthy individuals who wanted to seize power and gained it illegally?

a)

Monarchs

b)

Aristocrats

c)

Oligarchs

d)

Tyrants

5.

In Athens limited democracy, who mainly had the power?

a)

upper class

b)

lower class

6.

What position in democracy had elections rather than using the lotto system?

a)

Assembly

b)

Military

c)

King

d)

Oligarch

7.

Who made a set of legal codes that were extremely harsh in Athens?

a)

Dracon

b)

Solon

c)

Cleisthenes

8.

Who reorganized Athens' constitution and cancelled the debt of the poor?

a)

Dracon

b)

Solon

c)

Cleisthenes

9.

Which lawmaker organized the citizens into ten tribes, based on residence, instead of wealth?

a)

Solon

b)

Dracon

c)

Cleisthenes

10.

What was the typical age of a citizen to participate on an assembly or high council?

a)

20

b)

25

c)

30

d)

35

11.

What type of democracy did Athens have?

a)

Direct

b)

Indirect

12.

If someone was seen as a threat to the city-state, what could an assemblyman propose?

a)

Ostracism

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Olive Garden

d)

Capital Punishment

13.

Which was not a responsibility of an Athenian citizen?

a)

Serve in the army

b)

Serve on a jury

c)

Women had property rights

d)

Participate in government

14.

If a women wanted to instigate litigation, they had to have ___________ do it.

a)

Themselves

b)

Their Sisters

c)

Their Slaves

d)

Their male relative

15.

What was the opinion of an Athenian citizen who did not want to participate in government?

a)

idiotis

b)

smart

c)

annoying

d)

oligarchy

16.

What type of government did Sparta have?

a)

oligarchy, with a touch of monarchy

b)

oligarchy, with a touch of tyranny

c)

oligarchy, with a touch of aristocracy

d)

oligarchy, with a touch of democracy

17.

When did Spartan men start their military training?

a)

5

b)

7

c)

12

d)

20

18.

In which city-state could women own property, run the household when the men were away, and trained to be physically strong?

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

c)

Troy

d)

Megara

19.

In which city-state did women have no rights, and had to stay home to care it and their children?

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

c)

Troy

d)

Megara

20.

What city-state taught philosophy, mathematics, art, and writing, as well as some military training?

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

c)

Troy

d)

Megara

21.

In which city-state did schooling include military training and survival, as well as basic reading and writing?

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

c)

Troy

d)

Megara

22.

Which Macedonian leader was responsible for expanding the Greek empire to its farthest lengths?

a)

Homer

b)

Caesar

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

King Tut

23.

Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

a)

Homer

b)

Sappho

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

Euclid

24.

Herodotus and Thucydides were famous _______________

a)

Mathematicians

b)

Historians

c)

Scientists

d)

Poets

25.

Alexander the Great created an empire that reached as far as _________________.

a)

Greece

b)

Egypt

c)

China

d)

India

26.

Greek city-states often fought each other (like in the Peloponnesian Wars). The Greeks also fought a fierce enemy, the ___________________.

a)

Egyptians

b)

Persians

27.

What is the name of a short story (with a moral) that usually involves animals?

a)

Fables

b)

Poetry

c)

Essays

d)

Novels

28.

Which is not one of the six advancements that we get from Ancient Greece?

a)

Sculpture

b)

Writing

c)

Medicine

d)

Technology