WorksheetsThe Greek Culture
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is a long poem about heroic deeds called?
A fable
A myth
An epic
An oral tradition
What is a short tale that teaches a lesson called?
An epic
A short story
A fable
A myth
What is a traditional story about gods and goddesses called?
A fable
An oral tradition
A legend
A myth
What is a priest or priestess who could tell the future called?
A fable
A Delphi
A seer
An oracle
What is the custom of passing along stories by speech called?
Oral tradition
Story telling
Talk time
Speaking tradition
What did the Greek people expressed through mythology?
Their love of drama
Political beliefs
A way of teaching lessons
Religious beliefs
Which Greek poet wrote several epic poems?
Aesop
Odysseus
Homer
Sophocles
What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals?
Epic and tragedy
Myth and fable
Comedy and tragedy
Comedy and epic
Who were the three best known dramatists that wrote Greek tragedies?
Aeschylus, Homer, and Aesop
Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus
Homer, Euripides, and Sophocles
Aesop, Homer, and Sophocles
What were the three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings?
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
Doric, Athenian, and Ionic
Gregorian, Athenian, and Ionic
Athenian, Parthenon, and Corinthian
Ionic, Doric and Corinthian are three.......
types of columns used on buildings
doctors
city-states in Greece
artists
Hippocrates was a famous doctor that.....
studied the cause of diseases
created an oath called the Hippocratic Oath, that doctors still use today
lived in ancient Greece
all of the above
Ancient Greeks believed in one God.
True
False
The Parthenon was a temple built for the goddess Athena
True
False
When was the temple named Parthenon destroyed?
(a)
