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AB 6: Ancient Athens Review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Greece city is the birthplace of democracy?

a)

Olympia

b)

Athens

c)

Sparta

d)

Persia

2.

Who are people who have the right to participate in government?

a)

citizens

b)

democrats

c)

republicans

d)

oligarchians

3.

What do you call a group of citizens that decide if a person is innocent or guilty in a court of law?

a)

jury

b)

deciders

c)

lawyers

d)

prosecution

4.

What type of government allows all its citizens to participate directly in the government?

a)

indirect democracy

b)

elective democracy

c)

choice democracy

d)

Direct democracy

5.

What type of democracy allows the citizens to elect officials to represent them in the government?

a)

Direct Democracy

b)

Elected Democracy

c)

Representative (indirect) Democracy

d)

Choice Democracy

6.

Who was NOT allowed to participate in Ancient Athens government?

a)

Aristocrats

b)

slaves and women

c)

men

d)

priests

7.
I am owned by a private citizen or a city state. I can not become a citizen. Who am I?
a)
Slave
b)
Metic 
c)
Citizen
8.
I was born in Athens.
My mom was born in Athens.
My dad was born in Thebes.
Am I a citizen?
a)
YES
b)
NO
9.
Which of the following people would be allowed to vote?
a)
A 22 year old man
b)
A 40 year old mother of 4
c)
A 30 year old man who had moved from Sparta when he was young
d)
A 25 year old slave
10.
What was the "ASSEMBLY"?
a)
Where all citizens could debate issues and vote
b)
Where 500 people supervised the running of the government
c)
Where elected representatives voted on issues
d)
Where they would put people on trial for crimes
11.
How were the member of the Council of 500 chosen?
a)
Election
b)
By Lottery (at random)
12.
If you believed that you had been wronged, who would you go to?
a)
The Council of 500
b)
The Assembly
c)
The Magistrate
d)
The Judge
13.
What is a metic?
a)
A citizen in Athens
b)
A type of slave
c)
people who lived in Athens but werent born there
d)
People who were chosen for the Council of 500
14.
What is an AGORA
a)
Where the assembly meets
b)
The marketplace
c)
The place where the Council of 500 met
d)
The Law Courts
15.
What were some of the ways that Athenians could participate in democracy
a)
Attend the Assembly, discuss issues and vote
b)
They could talk to the Monarch about issues
c)
They could vote for representatives
d)
They could serve on the Council of 500 as many times as they like
16.
Participating in government was seen as a 
a)
right
b)
responsibility
c)
right and responsibility
d)
freedom
17.
Every citizen votes on all important decisions.
a)
Direct Democracy
b)
Indirect Democracy
c)
Monarchy
d)
I was picking my nose when we discussed this!
18.
Young girls and boys went to school and learnt how to read and do math. 
a)
True
b)
False
19.
What is an agenda?
a)
A nice notebook
b)
The list of topics that will be discussed at a meeting. 
c)
A political group
d)
Someone who speaks in public
20.
Women were not allowed to speak for themselves in court. 
a)
True
b)
False
21.
The person who brings a complaint about another person to court.
a)
Complainer
b)
Magistrate
c)
Plaintiff
d)
Defendant 
22.

How was the council of 500 chosen?

a)

Plaintiff.

b)

Magistrate.

c)

Lottery.

d)

Klepsydra.

23.

Where did the council of 500 meet?

a)

The pnyx.

b)

The bouleuterion.

c)

The agora.

d)

The tholos.

24.

In order from lowest to highest name the athenian social classes?

a)

Metics,slaves,citizens.

b)

slave,metics,citizens.

c)

citizens,slaves,spartans.

d)

people,women,gods.

25.

Women citizens could not?

a)

own property.

b)

sell property.

c)

Buy property.

26.

why was the lottery system a good Idea

a)

It was the only option

b)

it was fair

c)

it was cool

27.

These people were owned and had been taken prisoner when their city-state was attacked by the Athenians.

a)

Metics

b)

Citizens

c)

Slaves

d)

Canadians

28.

Which of the ancient Athenians' ideas of representation are part of Canadian democracy?

a)

fair and equal treatment of all people, majority rule

b)

slavery, equal rights, majority rule

c)

men vote, citizens rule themselves, majority rule

d)

citizens are able to rule themselves, equal rights, majority rule

29.

What are the pillars of Athenian democracy?

a)

The Marketplace, the Assembly, the Council of 500

b)

The Assembly, the Pynx, the Court

c)

The Assembly, the Council of 500, the Court

d)

The Assembly, the Pillar, the Ostrakon

30.

The main function of the Council of 500 was to...

a)

be the full time government of Athens.

b)

design a lottery so everyone had a fair chance

c)

make sure all members were 30 years old

d)

live in the Tholos near the agora.

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