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Ancient Greece Review

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 18mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following are true statements about slavery in ancient Greece?

a)

Slaves were allowed to vote

b)

Athenian slaves sometimes were captured during war

c)

Slaves only did housework

2.

People in Sparta believed in the importance of

a)

Fine clothes and good food

b)

Freedom for all

c)

Military strength

d)

democracy

3.

How did Greece's physical geography influence early civilizations

a)

It encouraged the use of rich farmland and contact between cities

b)

It forced people to adapt to harsh weather conditions

c)

It prevented war because the city-states were close together.

d)

It encouraged people to be sailors and fishermen, but keep city-states separate

4.

What was Mount Olympus?

a)

A hill outside the walls of troy

b)

Home of the gods

c)

An acropolis

d)

Site of the Olympic Games

5.

What is an epic?

a)

A long poem that tells a story

b)

A high rocky hill on or near where early people built cities.

c)

A form of government in which citizens govern themselves

d)

A member of a rich and powerful family

6.

What is an acropolis?

a)

A high, rocky road hill on or near where early people built cities

b)

A member of a rich or powerful family

c)

Someone who uses reason to understand the world

d)

A payment made by a less powerful state to a more powerful

7.

Who was the goddess of wisdom?

a)

Aphrodite

b)

Hera

c)

Athena

d)

Helen

8.

What was the government of Athens?

a)

Monarchy

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Monotheism

9.

What is democracy?

a)

Someone who uses reason to understand the world

b)

A form of government in which citizens govern themselves

c)

A member of a rich and powerful family

d)

A long poem that tells a story

10.

What does it mean to assassinate someone?

a)

To murder for political reasons

b)

To murder for personal reasons

c)

To murder for religious reasons

d)

To murder for any reason

11.

Which city-state won the Peloponnesian War

a)

Crete

b)

Athens

c)

Sparta

d)

Peloponnesus

12.

What ancient Greek invented geometry?

a)

Archimedes

b)

Socrates

c)

Pericles

d)

Euclid

13.

Who was Alexander the Great?

a)

A man conquered most of the known world

b)

Blind Greek Poet

c)

King of the Gods

d)

Great leader in Athens during the Golden Age

14.

What are myths?

a)

History written in the form of a long poem

b)

Stories that Greeks used to explain why things happen

c)

The priestess who spoke for the gods

d)

Lies that are used in a historical way

15.

Which of the following are true statements about slavery in ancient Greece?

a)

Slaves were allowed to vote

b)

Slaves owned by Sparta were called helots.

c)

Slaves only did housework

16.

What is a city-state?

a)

A high, rocky hill on or near where early people built cities.

b)

A city with its own independent traditions, laws, and government.

c)

A form of government in which citizens govern themselves.

d)

Someone who uses reason to understand the world.

17.

What is an aristocrat?

a)

A member of a rich and powerful family

b)

Someone who uses reason to understand the world

c)

A long poem that tells a story

d)

A payment made by a less powerful state to a more powerful state.

18.

What is a tribute?

a)

A high, rocky hill on or near where early people built cities

b)

A long poem that tells a story

c)

A payment made by a less powerful state to a more powerful one

d)

A form of government in which citizens govern themselves

19.

What is a philosopher?

a)

A member of a rich and powerful family

b)

Someone who uses reason to understand the world

20.

What is a plague?

a)

A public marketplace

b)

A widespread disease

c)

A public marketplace

d)

an area of land nearly surrounded by water

21.

What is a blockade?

a)

A public marketplace

b)

An area of land surrounded by water

c)

a type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character

d)

to isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies

22.

What is an agora?

a)

Someone or something that lives forever

b)

A public marketplace

c)

An area of land nearly surrounded by water

d)

A type of serious drama that ends in disaster

23.

What is a tragedy?

a)

A widespread disease

b)

A public marketplace

c)

A type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character

24.

What does it mean to be immortal?

a)

To isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies

b)

to murder for political reasons

c)

someone or something that lives forever

25.

What is a peninsula?

a)

A widespread disease

b)

An area of land nearly surrounded by water

c)

A public marketplace

26.

Which statement is true about women in ancient Sparta?

a)

They went to war with the men

b)

They only did housework

c)

They trained in wrestling and spear throwing

d)

They did not have to obey the men

27.

The Spartans and other city-states were part of what league?

a)

The Peloponnesian League

b)

The Delian League

28.

Athens and other city-states were part of what league?

a)

The Peloponnesian League

b)

The Delian League

29.

300 Spartans fought bravely and died in which battle?

a)

Battle of Marathon

b)

Battle of Thermopylae

c)

Battle of Salamis

d)

Battle of Himera

30.

He united Macedonia and took over Greece. Father to Alexander

a)

Zeus

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Pericles

d)

King Phillip

31.

The great philosopher who taught Plato

a)

Homer

b)

Socrates

c)

Pericles

d)

Zeus

32.

This is considered Greece's greatest work of architecture

a)

Parthenon

b)

Temple of Athena

c)

Acropolis

d)

Agora

33.

Who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey. Two great epics written about ancient Greece.

a)

Zeus

b)

Pericles

c)

Homer

d)

Alexander the Great

34.

He was King of the Gods

a)

Socrates

b)

Zeus

c)

Homer

d)

Apollo

35.

He was a great leader in Athens during the Golden Age.

a)

Zeus

b)

Homer

c)

Pericles

d)

Socrates

36.

People from mainland Greece; they took over Crete

a)

Mycenaeans

b)

Minoans

c)

Spartans

d)

Ionians