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Ancient Greece - Vocabulary

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Art of using language to persuade

a)

rhetoric

b)

argument

c)

truce

2.

Agreement where 2 or more people agree to stop fighting

a)

trilogy

b)

truce

c)

ostracize

3.

Goodness or Moral Excellence

a)

virtue

b)

abstract

c)

rhetoric

4.

Disease that causes many to die

a)

abstract

b)

virtue

c)

plague

5.

Individual town that governs itself and the land around it

a)

city-state

b)

city-country

c)

city-town

6.

Banish or send away; drive someone out of society

a)

ostracize

b)

obsolete

c)

abstract

7.

pure and simple; not complicated

a)

ostracize

b)

absolute

c)

abstract

8.

group of three related dramatic or literary works

a)

musketeers

b)

trilogy

c)

truce

9.

Power shared by the citizens

a)

democracy

b)

oligarchy

c)

tyranny

d)

aristocracy

10.

Rule of a few wealthy people

a)

aristocracy

b)

tyranny

c)

democracy

d)

oligarchy

11.

Rule of the best; 1 family in charge

a)

democracy

b)

aristocracy

c)

tyranny

d)

oligarchy

12.

1 dictator rules who seized power illegally

a)

democracy

b)

tyranny

c)

oligarchy

d)

aristocracy

13.

Foreign residents of Athens who had no rights, but were important to the economy

a)

barbarians

b)

metics

c)

helots

14.

The question-asking method where you are not lectured, but figure out a concept on your own.

a)

socratic method

b)

golden mean

c)

plato philosophy

15.

To live moderately

a)

the golden age

b)

the triumphant truth

c)

the golden mean

16.

The alliance of Greek city-states who pledged their allegiance to Athens in order to support each other against Persia

a)

The Delian League

b)

The Peloponnesian League

c)

The Persian League

17.

Name of the temple in Acropolis that is dedicated to Athena?

a)

Parthenon

b)

Partholis

c)

Python

18.

Name the jobs of the Athenian Assembly

a)

pass laws; levy taxes; vote on issues of war or peace; could ostracize dangerous people

b)

pass laws; levy taxes; vote on issues of war or peace; could not ostracize dangerous people

c)

pass laws; levy taxes; could not vote on issues of war or peace; could ostracize dangerous people