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WHI SOL People To Know (2)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Greek tyrant who outlawed debt slavery.

a)

Draco

b)

Solon

c)

Socrates

d)

Pericles

2.

Led the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments from Yahweh.

a)

Abraham

b)

Moses

c)

Paul

d)

Noah

3.

King of Macedon who conquered most of Greece and was the father of Alexander the Great.

a)

Phillip II

b)

Pericles

c)

William the Conqueror

d)

Aristotle

4.

Greek "Father of Medicine"

a)

Herodotus

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Archimedes

d)

Homer

5.

Unified Spain and expelled the Muslim Moors and Jews.

a)

William the Conqueror

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

Charles Martel

d)

Ferdinand and Isabella

6.

Greek philosopher who founded the Academy and wrote the Republic.

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Alexander the Great

7.

Wrote Greek tragedies such as Oedipus Rex.

a)

Sophocles

b)

Socrates

c)

Aeschylus

d)

Archimedes

8.

Greek scientist who calculated the value of pi and developed the pulley and lever.

a)

Aristotle

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Sophocles

d)

Archimedes

9.

Wrote Greek tragedies like Agamemnon.

a)

Aeschylus

b)

Sophocles

c)

Socrates

d)

Virgil

10.

Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War.

a)

Herodotus

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Thucydides

d)

Homer

11.

Roman emperor who converted to Christianity and moved the capital of Rome to Byzantium.

a)

Diocletian

b)

Constantine

c)

Augustus

d)

Justinian

12.

Signed the Magna Carta, limiting the king's power.

a)

Henry II

b)

William the Conqueror

c)

Charles V

d)

King John

13.

Leader of Athens' during its Golden Age who rebuilt Athens and extended democracy.

a)

Phillip II

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Pericles

d)

Hannibal

14.

Greek philosopher who created a question-and-answer method of teaching. He taught Plato before being put to death for corrupting young minds.

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Alexander the Great

15.

Wrote Utopia in 1516 which criticized government as corrupt.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Petrarch

c)

Sir Thomas More

d)

William Shakespeare

16.

Crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 C.E. by Pope Leo III.

a)

Charles Martel

b)

Charlemagne

c)

William the Conqueror

d)

Clovis

17.

Prophet and founder of Islam

a)

Siddhartha Gautama

b)

Asoka

c)

Muhammad

d)

Abraham

18.

Established the French throne in Paris in 987 C.E.

a)

Hugh Capet

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

Charles V

d)

Ferdinand and Isabella

19.

Inventor of the movable type printing press.

a)

Archimedes

b)

Aristotle

c)

Gutenberg

d)

Machiavelli

20.

Threw off the rule of the Mongols and became Tsar of Russia.

a)

Ivan the Great

b)

Saladin

c)

William the Conqueror

d)

Alexander the Great