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Unit I Test

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the wealthy housing like in Ancient Rome?

a)

Very modern with a lot of technology.

b)

Airy, spacious, and grand.

c)

Small and dark.

d)

Very tall apartment buildings.

2.

What was the housing for the poor like in Ancient Rome?

a)

Average. They were poor, but they still had basic needs like a kitchen.

b)

Very large and grand.

c)

Small, dark, dirty, and dangerous.

d)

Similar to wealthy housing today.

3.

What is polytheism?

a)

Belief in one god.

b)

Belief in many gods.

4.

What is monotheism?

a)

Belief in one god.

b)

Belief in many gods.

5.

What is an example of monotheism?

a)

Christianity

b)

Hinduism

c)

Atheism

d)

Ancient Greek religion

6.

Select all that apply to Roman food.

a)

Wealthy ate rare foods like jellyfish

b)

Everyone ate fast food

c)

The poor had lavish dinner parties

d)

Some foods were similar to today.

7.

Where did the Ancient Greeks get many of their Gods from?

a)

Japan

b)

Peru

c)

Greece

d)

America

8.

Why did the Romans want to please their gods?

a)

They didn't

b)

They thought if they made them happy, they would become gods themselves.

c)

They thought they controlled their daily lives.

9.

How did the Romans honor their gods?

a)

Human sacrifice

b)

Animal Sacrifice

c)

Food gifts

d)

Reading the Bible

10.

What was a major difference between Greek and Roman education?

a)

The poor were often excluded from education in Rome and Greece

b)

Girls had more of an opportunity to learn in Ancient Rome. In Athens in Greece, the girls mostly just stayed home.

c)

Wealthy in Ancient Rome were expected to go to work, not school. Wealthy in Athens went to school.

11.

What was a monarchy?

a)

Kings ruled with a group of patrician advisors.

b)

Patricians ruled with Plebeians as advisors.

c)

Plebeians ruled with Patrician advisors.

d)

One all powerful leader ruled alongside the Senate.

12.

What is a republic?

a)

Military rule.

b)

A king rules with advisors.

c)

Every citizen votes on every law.

d)

People elect representatives to vote and make decisions for them.

13.

Who had power in the early Republic?

a)

Plebeians

b)

Kings

c)

Patricians

d)

Emperors

14.

Who gained power in the late Republic?

a)

Plebeians

b)

Kings

c)

Slaves

d)

Patricians

15.

Which military general turned against Rome and took power away from the Senate?

a)

Augustus

b)

Octavian

c)

Caesar

d)

Romulus

16.

Who is considered the first emperor of Rome?

a)

Augustus

b)

Livvy

c)

Romulus

d)

Caesar

17.

Check off all that describe a Patrician.

a)

5% of people

b)

Wealthy

c)

Upper Class, land-owners

d)

Common people

e)

95% of people

18.

What is an aqueduct?

a)

A method of spreading information.

b)

A system to help the extremely poor and needy with food.

c)

an artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge across a valley or other gap.

d)

A bridge that trains travel over.

19.

Which Roman achievement made the military strong?

a)

Bound Books

b)

Roads and highways

c)

Twelve Tables

d)

Welfare

20.

Check off the reasons Rome fell

a)

Bad Leadership

b)

Financial Problems

c)

Alexander the Great invaded

d)

Military Defeats

e)

Christianity

21.

Why did the Roman Empire split in two?

a)

It was too large to manage.

b)

People in the East and West hated each other.

c)

They spoke different languages.

d)

Disease

22.

Is Christianity a monotheistic or polytheistic religion?

a)

Monotheistic

b)

Polytheistic

23.

Was Rome Monotheistic or Polytheistic

a)

Monotheistic

b)

Polytheistic

c)

Both (They started as polytheistic and later became monotheistic)

24.

Where did Rome get many of their gods from?

a)

China

b)

Egypt

c)

Greece

25.

Check off all of the true statements about education in Rome.

a)

Girls were forbidden from going to school

b)

Girls had the opportunity to learn and have careers.

c)

The wealthy had many more opportunities than the poor.

d)

Poor children often had to get jobs instead of go to school.

26.

Greece or Rome?: Every citizen had the opportunity to vote on every law and speak in the assembly.

a)

Greece

b)

Rome

c)

Neither

27.

Greece or Rome?: The government was divided up into branches- The Senate and the Consuls.

a)

Greece

b)

Rome

c)

Both

d)

Neither

28.

How did the Byzantine Empire form?

a)

They divided the Roman empire in two.

b)

Alexander conquered more and more land until his army refused to march further.

c)

The Emperor decided to collapse the Western Roman Empire and focus on the East.

29.

How did the Byzantine Empire end?

a)

Bad leadership

b)

Praetorian Guard

c)

High taxes

d)

Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

30.

Why did Greece form as separate city-states?

a)

They had different governments and cultures.

b)

They didn't get along with each other.

c)

They were geographically separated from each other by mountains and water.

d)

None of these

31.

How did forming as separate city-states cause problems in Greece?

a)

They developed different cultures and didn't get along.

b)

They didn't trust each other because they were so difference.

c)

They didn't consider themselves a unified Greece so they fought.

d)

All of these are correct.

32.

Check off all of the forms of government that were present in Athens.

a)

Early Republic

b)

Late Republic

c)

Monarchy

d)

Oligarchy

e)

Democracy

33.

How did Roman roads help maintain a strong empire?

a)

It made it easier to travel and communicate

b)

They didn't.

c)

People moved more frequently so they knew each other.

d)

It actually made the empire weak.