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WorksheetsGolden Age of Athens
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins
What are 2 important things Pericles did?
Promoted Monarchy and started the olympics
Promoted Democracy and rebuilt Athens
Promoted Oligarchy and rebuilt Persia
Promoted Anarchy and built a statue of Atena
Doric, Ionic and Corinthian are three types of:
Greek food
Greek columns
Greek temples
Greek gods
One of the great achievements of Greek sculptors was:
Creating lifelike statues
Creating statues with moving parts
Building ships that could carry many people
Creating statues of people's pets
What is one thing that is similar between Greek plays and modern movies?
They cost millions of dollars to make
Amazing special effects
Awards for best actor and writer
Only men were actors
Because Socrates was accused of not honoring the gods with his philosophy, he was:
Banned from teaching
Asked to leave Greece
Sentenced to death
Awarded a prize for best philosopher
On the acropolis, Athenians built
magnificent temples as earthly homes for their gods and goddesses.
a sports center where they held the Olympics every four years.
a meeting place where citizens gathered to discuss issues of the day.
all answers apply.
Greeks worshiped
many gods and goddesses.
only one god.
the big three.
only the 12 Olympian gods.
Which mountain in Greece gave its name to the twelve most important gods and goddesses?
Mount Vesuvius
Mount Etna
Mount Kythnos
Mount Olympus
What was the role of master sculptors in ancient Athens?
They made life-size clay models, which apprentices followed when sculpting with marble.
They added the details and finishing touches to statues that had been roughed out by apprentices.
They applied wax and bright colors to the statue’s hair, lips, clothes, and headdress.
They roughed out the statues in marble so that the apprentices could add the final details.
Greek plays grew out of
songs and dances that the Greeks performed at harvest time to honor Dionysus.
solemn religious rituals performed at the beginning of the year in tribute to Zeus.
spring festivals that appealed to Hermes to bring forth a good crop each year.
celebrations of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, to pay homage to Apollo.
Which statement about Greek plays is true?
In comedies, men played female characters and women played male characters.
Men played all the characters, both male and female.
There were no women actors because there were no female roles in Greek plays.
Only unmarried women could perform in Greek plays.
Greek plays were performed
in small theaters in the private homes of wealthy Greeks.
in the acropolis, surrounded by the statues of the gods and goddesses.
in open-air theaters built into the sides of hills.
in the marketplace, where all people could gather.
The Panathenaic Games were
part of a festival that honored the goddess Athena.
held every four years to pay tribute to Zeus.
a drama competition that lasted for days at a time.
athletic events that only women could participate in.
The belief in many gods.
Monotheism
Polytheism
Philosophy
Geography
A traditional story that explains beliefs about the world.
Literature
Religion
Achievements
Myth
