WorksheetsAncient Greek Test Review
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Which form of government, that existed in Athens, can you find evidence of in the government of the United States?
Tyrancy
Oligarchy
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Democracy
Which form of government did NOT exist within the city-states of Ancient Greece?
Tyrancy
Oligarchy
Anarchy
Monarchy
Democracy
What was one of Ancient Greece's largest city-states?
Sparta
Megara
Corinth
Thebes
Athens
Who were wealthy individuals who wanted to seize power and gained it illegally?
Monarchs
Aristocrats
Oligarchs
Tyrants
In Athens limited democracy, who mainly had the power?
upper class
lower class
What position in democracy had elections rather than using the lotto system?
Assembly
Military
King
Oligarch
Who made a set of legal codes that were extremely harsh in Athens?
Dracon
Solon
Cleisthenes
Who reorganized Athens' constitution and cancelled the debt of the poor?
Dracon
Solon
Cleisthenes
Which lawmaker organized the citizens into ten tribes, based on residence, instead of wealth?
Solon
Dracon
Cleisthenes
What was the typical age of a citizen to participate on an assembly or high council?
20
25
30
35
What type of democracy did Athens have?
Direct
Indirect
If someone was seen as a threat to the city-state, what could an assemblyman propose?
Ostracism
Oligarchy
Olive Garden
Capital Punishment
Which was not a responsibility of an Athenian citizen?
Serve in the army
Serve on a jury
Women had property rights
Participate in government
If a women wanted to instigate litigation, they had to have ___________ do it.
Themselves
Their Sisters
Their Slaves
Their male relative
What was the opinion of an Athenian citizen who did not want to participate in government?
idiotis
smart
annoying
oligarchy
What type of government did Sparta have?
oligarchy, with a touch of monarchy
oligarchy, with a touch of tyranny
oligarchy, with a touch of aristocracy
oligarchy, with a touch of democracy
When did Spartan men start their military training?
5
7
12
20
In which city-state could women own property, run the household when the men were away, and trained to be physically strong?
Athens
Sparta
Troy
Megara
In which city-state did women have no rights, and had to stay home to care it and their children?
Athens
Sparta
Troy
Megara
What city-state taught philosophy, mathematics, art, and writing, as well as some military training?
Athens
Sparta
Troy
Megara
In which city-state did schooling include military training and survival, as well as basic reading and writing?
Athens
Sparta
Troy
Megara
Which Macedonian leader was responsible for expanding the Greek empire to its farthest lengths?
Homer
Caesar
Alexander the Great
King Tut
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
Sappho
Alexander the Great
Euclid
Herodotus and Thucydides were famous _______________
Mathematicians
Historians
Scientists
Poets
Alexander the Great created an empire that reached as far as _________________.
Greece
Egypt
China
India
Greek city-states often fought each other (like in the Peloponnesian Wars). The Greeks also fought a fierce enemy, the ___________________.
Egyptians
Persians
What is the name of a short story (with a moral) that usually involves animals?
Fables
Poetry
Essays
Novels
Which is not one of the six advancements that we get from Ancient Greece?
Sculpture
Writing
Medicine
Technology
