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Golden Age of Athens

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are 2 important things Pericles did?

a)

Promoted Monarchy and started the olympics

b)

Promoted Democracy and rebuilt Athens

c)

Promoted Oligarchy and rebuilt Persia

d)

Promoted Anarchy and built a statue of Atena

2.

Doric, Ionic and Corinthian are three types of:

a)

Greek food

b)

Greek columns

c)

Greek temples

d)

Greek gods

3.

One of the great achievements of Greek sculptors was:

a)

Creating lifelike statues

b)

Creating statues with moving parts

c)

Building ships that could carry many people

d)

Creating statues of people's pets

4.

What is one thing that is similar between Greek plays and modern movies?

a)

They cost millions of dollars to make

b)

Amazing special effects

c)

Awards for best actor and writer

d)

Only men were actors

5.

Because Socrates was accused of not honoring the gods with his philosophy, he was:

a)

Banned from teaching

b)

Asked to leave Greece

c)

Sentenced to death

d)

Awarded a prize for best philosopher

6.

On the acropolis, Athenians built

a)

magnificent temples as earthly homes for their gods and goddesses.

b)

a sports center where they held the Olympics every four years.

c)

a meeting place where citizens gathered to discuss issues of the day.

d)

all answers apply.

7.

Greeks worshiped

a)

many gods and goddesses.

b)

only one god.

c)

the big three.

d)

only the 12 Olympian gods.

8.

Which mountain in Greece gave its name to the twelve most important gods and goddesses?

a)

Mount Vesuvius

b)

Mount Etna

c)

Mount Kythnos

d)

Mount Olympus

9.

What was the role of master sculptors in ancient Athens?

a)

They made life-size clay models, which apprentices followed when sculpting with marble.

b)

They added the details and finishing touches to statues that had been roughed out by apprentices.

c)

They applied wax and bright colors to the statue’s hair, lips, clothes, and headdress.

d)

They roughed out the statues in marble so that the apprentices could add the final details.

10.

Greek plays grew out of

a)

songs and dances that the Greeks performed at harvest time to honor Dionysus.

b)

solemn religious rituals performed at the beginning of the year in tribute to Zeus.

c)

spring festivals that appealed to Hermes to bring forth a good crop each year.

d)

celebrations of the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, to pay homage to Apollo.

11.

Which statement about Greek plays is true?

a)

In comedies, men played female characters and women played male characters.

b)

Men played all the characters, both male and female.

c)

There were no women actors because there were no female roles in Greek plays.

d)

Only unmarried women could perform in Greek plays.

12.

Greek plays were performed

a)

in small theaters in the private homes of wealthy Greeks.

b)

in the acropolis, surrounded by the statues of the gods and goddesses.

c)

in open-air theaters built into the sides of hills.

d)

in the marketplace, where all people could gather.

13.

The Panathenaic Games were

a)

part of a festival that honored the goddess Athena.

b)

held every four years to pay tribute to Zeus.

c)

a drama competition that lasted for days at a time.

d)

athletic events that only women could participate in.

14.
What body of water was the most important to the survival of the Greeks?
a)
Atlantic Ocean
b)
Black Sea
c)
Mediterranean Sea
d)
Red Sea
15.
Why did the Greeks have small, independent communities?
a)
They all spoke different languages.
b)
They all had different religions.
c)
The geography caused it.
d)
It was a desert there.
16.
Which of these is not a physical feature of Greece?
a)
rugged mountains
b)
deep valleys
c)
great rivers
d)
many islands
17.
Who was the sculptor who built Athena?
a)
Phineas
b)
Phideas
c)
Zues
d)
I don't know his name
18.
Friends encouraged Socrates to do what?
a)
ask more questions
b)
tell more stories
c)
fight
d)
escape from Athens
19.
Socrates was a famous what?
a)
Singer
b)
Story teller
c)
Philosopher
d)
Escape artist
20.

The belief in many gods.

a)

Monotheism

b)

Polytheism

c)

Philosophy

d)

Geography

21.

A traditional story that explains beliefs about the world.

a)

Literature

b)

Religion

c)

Achievements

d)

Myth