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Ancient Greece

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Greece city-state

a)

Politics

b)

Polis

c)

Citizen

d)

Aristocracy

2.

The art and practice of government

a)

Politics

b)

Polis

c)

Oligarchy

d)

Democracy

3.

What is Oligarchy

a)

Greek city state

b)

Governments run by a string ruler

c)

Rule by the many, rule by the people

d)

Government held by a small group of people

4.

Rule by the many, rule by a strong ruler

a)

Polis

b)

Politics

c)

Democracy

d)

Helot

5.

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

a)

Representative Democracy

b)

Tyranny

c)

Citizen

d)

Democracy

6.

What is Military State

a)

Member of a city-state who had legal rights, meet to make laws

b)

Society organized for the purpose of waging war, example Sparta

c)

A hereditary class of rulers, means, "Rule by the best people!"

d)

Governments run by a strong ruler

7.

Leader of the Greek Gods, carries a lightning bolt

a)

Zeus

b)

Aesop's Fables

c)

Ares

d)

Socrates

8.

What is Olympic Games

a)

Collection of stories about gods, heros and nature

b)

Festival that took place every four years to honnor Zues

c)

A school of philosophy and learning

d)

Playing sports

9.

A logical guess made through observations

a)

Academy

b)

Ares

c)

Hippocratic Oath

d)

Hypothesis

10.

Sparta and Athens were evenly matched until

a)

Athens defeated Persia on land

b)

Sparta captured Pericles and Athens surrendered

c)

Themistocles captured Leanida in a naval battle

d)

Persia gave money to Sparta, allowing them to build powerful navy

11.

The war ends with...

a)

Athens and Sparta becoming allies and friends

b)

Athens defeats Soarta by cutting off their supply of military weapons

c)

Sparta defeats Athens by cutting off their food supply

d)

Persia taking over Greece

12.

Athenian education was designed to

a)

Educate the poor and slaves

b)

Produce well rounded citizens

c)

Promote warfare and fighting

d)

Educate all Athenians

13.

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

a)

Battle of marathon

b)

Battle of Slamis

c)

Helot

d)

Delian League

14.

A civil war between Athens, Sparta and other city states that began in 431 BC

a)

Aristocracy

b)

Peloponnesian war

c)

Battle of Salamis

d)

Battle of Marathon

15.

Helot is...

a)

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

b)

A civil war between Athen and Sparta and other city states thta began in 431 BC

c)

Conqured group of people known as the Messeniams who were forced to farm for Spartans

d)

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

16.

Athenian education was designed to

a)

Educate the poor and slaves

b)

Produce well rounded citizens

c)

Promote warfare and fighting

d)

Educate all Athenians