WorksheetsCh. 8 Lesson 1: Greek Culture
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which of these is a long poem about heroic deeds?
fable
myth
epic
oracle
Which of these is the custom of passing along stories by speech?
oral tradition
myth
oracle
epic
Which of these is a short tale that teaches a lesson?
fable
myth
epic
oracle
Which of these is a priest or priestess who could tell the future?
fable
myth
epic
oracle
Which of these is a traditional story about gods and goddesses?
fable
myth
oral tradition
oracle
Through mythology, the Greek people have expressed their
religious beliefs
love of sport
love of poetry
political beliefs
This Greek poet wrote several epic poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Aesop
Croesus
Homer
Odysseus
What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals?
comedy and tragedy
myth and fable
epic and tragedy
comedy and myth
The three best-known dramatists who wrote Greek tragedies were
Sophocles
Aesop
Aeschylus
Euripides
The three types of columns used in Greek architecture were
Corinthian
Doric
Ionic
Gregorian
