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Ancient Greece

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a city-state?

a)

a city that is an independent political state with its own ruling government

b)

a peninsula in southwestern Asia; today most of this area is the country of Turkey

c)

a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

2.

What is a Tyranny?

a)

the upper or noble class whose members’ status is usually inherited

b)

a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

c)

a government led by a king or a queen

3.

What is a Monarchy?

a)

a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

b)

the upper or noble class whose members’ status is usually inherited

c)

a government led by a king or a queen

4.

What is an oligarchy?

a)

the upper or noble class whose members’ status is usually inherited

b)

a government led by a king or a queen

c)

a type of government in which one person illegally seizes all power, usually ruling in a harsh and brutal way; a dictatorship

5.

Who has power in a democracy?

a)

A king or queen

b)

A small group of wealthy men

c)

All citizens

6.

How are leaders chosen in a Democracy?

a)

They seize power illegally

b)

A vote

c)

They inherit power through their bloodline

7.

In an Oligarchy who had power?

a)

The President

b)

A king or queen

c)

A small group of wealth men

8.

What is an assembly?

a)

a group of people; in ancient Greece, the Assembly made laws.

b)

a peninsula in southwestern Asia; today most of this area is the country of Turkey

c)

a city that is an independent political state with its own ruling government

9.

What is Asia Minor?

a)

a city that is an independent political state with its own ruling government

b)

a peninsula in southwestern Asia; today most of this area is the country of Turkey

c)

a group of people; in ancient Greece, the Assembly made laws.

10.

What is a citizen?

a)

Legal member of a country

b)

An illegal member of a country

c)

Any human

d)

Nothing

11.

A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields

a)

Assembly

b)

Phalanx

c)

Rhetoric

d)

Epic Poem

12.

A group of citizens, in an Ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws.

a)

Citizen

b)

City-State

c)

Phalanx

d)

Assembly

13.

What was Sparta's main focus?

a)

Education

b)

Military

c)

Growing Food

d)

Exploration

14.

What type of government did Athens have?

a)

Monarchy

b)

Democracy

c)

Tyranny

d)

Oligarchy

15.

What was a major focus in Athens?

a)

Education

b)

Military

c)

Economics

d)

Traveling

16.

Where were Sparta and Athens located?

a)

United States

b)

Italy

c)

Greece

d)

China

17.

To be a citizen of Ancient Athens you needed to be

a)

At least 18

b)

A male that is not a slave

c)

Have 2 Athenian parents

d)

All of the above

18.

Who won the Pelopennsian War?

a)
Sparta
b)
Athens
c)
Persia
d)
Rome
19.

Socrates and Plato were both

a)
Roman Emperors
b)
Egyptian Pharaohs
c)
Chinese Philosophers
d)
Greek Philosophers
20.

The study of ideas about knowledge, life, and truth; literally, love of wisdom.

a)
Philosophy
b)
Psychology
c)
Sociology
d)
Anthropology