WorksheetsClassical Greek Culture
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on ____________________.
Mt. Olympus
Mt. Wannahakalugy
Mt. Hope
Mt. St. Helen
Socrates’ most famous student was named ____________________.
Alexander
Xeres
Plato
Leonidas
The most famous building on the Acropolis in Athens is the ____________________.
Acropolis
Pangaea
Agora
Parthenon
One of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about was ____________________, or the study of moral principles.
philosophy
ethics
sociology
arithmetic
The god associated with the most famous oracle in ancient Greece was ____________________.
Athena
Apollo
Helen
Zeus
The ancient Greeks considered religion
unnecessary.
important only for men.
necessary to the well-being of the state.
a luxury best left to women.
Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Aristophanes
According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person
lives in a just and rational state.
is ruled by a kind and fair monarch.
lives a moral and pious life.
strictly follows a vegetarian diet.
The Greek sculptor Polyclitus believed that
all sculpture should depict the gods.
using proportions and mathematical ratios, the idea human form could be produced.
the goal in sculpture was to produce a realistic image.
only female artists should sculpt figures of women.
Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first
novel.
tragedy.
comedy.
real history in Western civilization.
