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ancient Greece

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

what did Socrates do

a)

he examined beliefs and ideas through critical questioning

b)

he tried to described the perfect polis

c)

he preached good conduct meant avoiding extreme ideas

2.

define philosopher

a)

a rational thinker

b)

lover of wisdom

c)

the art of skillful thinking

d)

a blind poet who wrote famous poems

3.

what were the 2 famous poems Homer wrote

a)

rhetoric

b)

Iliad

c)

Odyssey

d)

logic

4.

government ruled by the landholding elite

a)

aristocracy

b)

monarchy

c)

oligarchy

d)

democracy

5.

the blind poet who wrote 2 famous poems

a)

Plato

b)

Aristotle

c)

Homer

d)

Socrates

6.

what are 2 reasons for the Persian war

a)

they wanted to expand its border's into Greece's colonies

b)

Athens illegal took money from their colonies

c)

Xerxes wanted to live up to his father

d)

they just felt like it

7.

define Thucydides

a)

poem of Odysseus trying to return home following the Trojan war

b)

a government in which a king/queen has the power

c)

a city-state in ancient Greece

d)

historian's who wrote about the Peloponnesian war

8.

what happened during the battle of Marathon

a)

the Greek trap defeated Persia

b)

the tea was thrown everywhere

c)

300 Greeks were led by Leonidas

d)

the Athenians where urged to build a fleet of worship

9.

define Polis

a)

Poem of Trojan war

b)

blind poet

c)

city-state in ancient Greece

d)

government ruled by the landholding elite

10.

which philosopher tried to describe the perfect Polis (utopia)

(a)