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GREEK CIVILIZATION CONTENT VOCABULARY AND EVENTS

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people, or something in the natural world

a)

fable

b)

myth

c)

ritual

d)

drama

2.

Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony

a)

tragedy

b)

myth

c)

oracle

d)

ritual

3.

A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess

a)

agora

b)

acropolis

c)

oracle

d)

ritual

4.

The custom of passing along stories by speech

a)

ritual

b)

oral tradition

c)

drama

d)

Socratic Method

5.

A story written in the form of a play

a)

comedy

b)

tragedy

c)

drama

d)

ritual

6.

A play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems

a)

drama

b)

tragedy

c)

oral tradition

d)

comedy

7.

A play or film that tells a humorous story

a)

drama

b)

ritual

c)

comedy

d)

oral tradition

8.

A story meant to teach a lesson

a)

myth

b)

fable

c)

comedy

d)

tragedy

9.

The art of public speaking

a)

Socratic Method

b)

ritual

c)

rhetoric

d)

semantics

10.

Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking

a)

Socratic Method

b)

Epicureans

c)

Sophists

d)

Hellenes

11.

Philosophical method of questioning to gain truth

a)

Socratic method

b)

Epicureanism

c)

Philosophy

d)

Rhetoric

12.

A set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine

a)

Socratic Method

b)

Hippocratic Oath

c)

Sophists

d)

Epicureanism

13.

Part of an army in which the soldiers ride horses

a)

infantry

b)

cavalry

c)

phalanx

d)

division

14.

The time period following the death of Alexander during which Greek culture spread through the known world

a)

Greek civilization

b)

Age of Exploration

c)

Hellenistic Era

d)

Scientific Age

15.

The philosophy that states that the purpose of life is to look for happiness and peace

a)

Stoicism

b)

Epicureanism

c)

Capitalism

d)

Socialism

16.

The philosophy of those who believed that people should not try to feel joy or sadness

a)

Stoicism

b)

Communism

c)

Epicureanism

d)

Hellenestic

17.

The outer border of a circle, the measurement of that border

a)

Area

b)

Circumference

c)

Triangle

d)

Perimeter

18.

A branch of mathematics centered around measurement and relationships of points, lines, angles, and surfaces of figures on a plane

a)

Plane geometry

b)

Physics

c)

Solid geometry

d)

Circumference

19.

A branch of mathematics about measurement and relationships of points, line, angles, surfaces and solids in three-dimensional space

a)

Plane geometry

b)

Solid geometry

c)

Arithmetic

d)

Algebra

20.

Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey

a)

c. 700 B.C

b)

776 B.C.

c)

1492

d)

1776

21.

First Olympic Games

a)

776 B.C

b)

C. 700 s B.C

c)

1812

d)

1914

22.

Herodotus writes history of the Persian Wars

a)

c. 435 B.C

b)

1812

c)

776 B.C.

d)

1492

23.

Philip becomes king of Macedonia

a)

350 B.C

b)

359 B.C.

c)

776 B.C

d)

1914

24.

Aristotle founds Lyceum in Athens

a)

c. 335 B.C.

b)

c. 776 B.C

c)

1492

d)

1776

25.

Alexander defeats Darius at Gaugamela

a)

323 B.C.

b)

331 B.C.

c)

1776

d)

1492

26.

Alexander dies

a)

331 B.C.

b)

359 b.c.

c)

323 B.C.

d)

776 b.c.

27.

Socrates is sentenced to death

a)

319 B.C.

b)

399 B,C

c)

C. 700s B.C

d)

776 b.c.