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Greatest Minds of Greece Test

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the "Socratic Method"?

a)

doing research

b)

asking questions

c)

going on the internet

d)

writing down information

2.

Schools and education today are based on how these 2 Greek thinkers set up their own schools in Ancient Greece?

a)

Socrates and Plato

b)

Herodotus and Archimedes

c)

Plato and Pythagoras

d)

Aristotle and Plato

3.

Socrates was put on trial because he ?

a)

Stole food

b)

drank poison

c)

questioned the gods existence

d)

didn't study for his test

4.

What did Plato emphasize?

a)

science

b)

research

c)

thinking and reasoning

d)

question and answer

5.

This subject was not taught at Aristotle's school

a)

english

b)

mathematics

c)

poetry

d)

music

6.

Who discovered 3.14 x d = c ?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Plato

c)

Aristarchus

d)

Hippocrates

7.

This machine of Archimedes could set ships on fire.

a)

water screw

b)

claw

c)

ship shaker

d)

death ray

8.

Herodotus is considered the father of?

a)

science

b)

medicine

c)

history

d)

poetry

9.

Aristarchus said that?

a)

the earth rotated around the sun

b)

the moon rotated around the earth

c)

the sun rotated around the earth

d)

9 planets rotated around the sun

10.

Hippocrates worked in this field?

a)

mathematics

b)

medicine

c)

physics

d)

chemistry

11.

Figured out the law of buoyancy

a)

Aristarchus

b)

Archimedes

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Mr. Sermons

12.

He stressed the importance of research.

a)

Plato

b)

Archimedes

c)

Herodotus

d)

Hippocrates

13.

Discovered A squared + B squared = C squared

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Archimedes

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Aristarchus

14.

He was the first to think outside the box

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Aristarchus

15.

Used physics to make inventions

a)

Aristarchus

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Archimedes

d)

Pythagoras

16.

Heliocentric solar system

a)

Archimedes

b)

Aristarchus

c)

Plato

d)

Aristotle

17.

Father of numbers

a)

Aristarchus

b)

Herodotus

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Plato

18.

Studied the cause of illness and looked for cures

a)

Herodotus

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Archimedes

d)

Aristotle

19.

He questioned the gods existence and the role they played.

a)

Plato

b)

Socrates

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Aristotle

20.

He was Plato's most famous student?

a)

Socrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

Archimedes

d)

Pythagoras