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Ancient Greece

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which three bodies of water is Greece located along?

a)

Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Aegean Sea

b)

North Sea, Dead Sea, and Red Sea

c)

Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Mediterranean Sea

d)

Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea, and Red Sea

2.

What is an ancient Greek city- state?

a)

capital of ancient Greece

b)

ancient Athens only

c)

ancient Sparta only

d)

region in ancient Greece with its own government

3.

A painting on a plaster wall is called

a)

a portrait

b)

fresco

c)

landscape

d)

montage

4.

What was a freeman?

a)

slave

b)

serf

c)

male citizen of Greece

d)

Spartan

5.

What were the thetes?

a)

aristocrats

b)

slaves

c)

helots

d)

craftsmen

6.

What type of government is an oligarchy?

a)

same as a democracy

b)

same as a monoarchy

c)

government by a few people

d)

none of these

7.

Why did the Spartans expect their male children to steal food and clothing?

a)

They thought it would make them tough.

b)

The thought it would make them honest.

c)

The thought it would make them brave.

d)

They thought it would make them weak.

8.

What was highly prized in ancient Sparta?

a)

wealth

b)

food

c)

physical fitness

d)

intelligence

9.

What is a helot?

a)

Spartan slave

b)

Athenian slave

c)

aristocrat

d)

Spartan warrior

10.

The conflict between the Spartans and the Athenians was called...

a)

Spartan Wars

b)

Athenian Wars

c)

Peloponnesian Wars

d)

Mongol Wars

11.

Who was Thucydides?

a)

mathematician

b)

philosopher

c)

historian

d)

inventor

12.

The worship of many gods is called

a)

polytheism

b)

monotheism

c)

polymorphic

d)

polyrites

13.

What was inside the Trojan Horse?

a)

Trojan soldiers

b)

Greek soldiers

c)

horses

d)

Helen of Troy

14.

To what is Euclid most connected?

a)

algebra

b)

number theory

c)

geometry

d)

right triangles

15.

What is the Socratic Method?

a)

a teaching method

b)

a mathematical theory

c)

a book by Socrates

d)

a book about Socrates by Plato

16.

The period of ancient Greek history when Alexander the Great was ruler is the

a)

Mycenaean Age

b)

Age of the City- States

c)

the Hellenistic Age

d)

the Alexandrian Age

17.

The ancient Greeks influenced

a)

math, medicine and music

b)

philosophy, politics, and invention

c)

all of these

d)

none of these