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Polis profile Corinth

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is another name for city-states?

a)

Polies

b)

Polis

c)

Acropolis

2.

What is the word for a single city-states?

a)

Acropolis

b)

Polis

c)

Poleis

3.

Why did Greeks fortify their poleis?

a)

Owner gods

b)

Olympics

c)

For protection from outsider invader.

d)

Animals

4.

What were the three functions of an acropolis?

a)

Defensive position.

b)

Place to discuss public affairs.

c)

Shrine to honor.

d)

Worship greece’s many gods.

5.

What do you call citizens of Corinth?

a)

Corinthian

b)

Corinth

c)

Polis

d)

Poleis

6.

How did your polis get its name?

a)

City was founded in 5000 BCE by Corinth's?

b)

City was founded in 5060 BCE by Corinth's?

c)

City was founded in 6049 BCE by Corinth's?

d)

City was founded in 2019 BCE by Corinth's?

7.

What do we call a narrow piece of land that connects two larger land masses?

a)

Spatra

b)

Athens

c)

Isthmus

d)

Megara

8.

What makes the Acocorinthus the best natural acropolis in all of Greeces?

a)

A 2000-foot fortress with inexhaustible springs of fresh water.

b)

A 4357-foot fortress with with inexhaustible springs of fresh water.

9.

Which goddess does your polis honor?

a)

Zeus the god of the sky

b)

Hercules the god of greek hero

c)

Aphrodite the goddess of love.

d)

Hera the goddess of wives

10.

Which of the fulling of Pretender's accomplishments that made Corinth one of greece foremost poleis?

a)

Laws and Order

b)

Supered literature and art

c)

Lowered taxes

d)

Set up coning

e)

Help clean up

11.

What was the Diolcos?

a)

This saved weeks of sailing. Such bold ideas produced critics and enemies.

b)

This was stone road connecting the two gulfs on either side of Corinth

12.

What title did Periander earn after his death

a)

Two sages of Ancient Greece

b)

Seven sages of Ancient Greece

c)

Five sages of Ancient Greece

d)

Ten sages of Ancient Greece

13.

Who was a famous Corinthian poet?

a)

Hera

b)

Patrick

c)

Eumelus

14.

How Corinthians act.

a)

Cooperative

b)

Smart

c)

Strong

d)

Powerful

15.

What is Corinths favorite letter

a)

C

b)

B

c)

K

d)

E

16.

How do they act?

a)

Good

b)

Both

c)

Bad

17.

"True or false" Do Corinth alway want war.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

"True or False" They are friendly

a)

True

b)

False

19.

"True or False" Corinth is a very big city-state.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Did you like this quiz?

a)

Yes

b)

Maybe

c)

it okay

d)

No