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The Greek Culture

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a long poem about heroic deeds called?

a)

A fable

b)

A myth

c)

An epic

d)

An oral tradition

2.

What is a short tale that teaches a lesson called?

a)

An epic

b)

A short story

c)

A fable

d)

A myth

3.

What is a traditional story about gods and goddesses called?

a)

A fable

b)

An oral tradition

c)

A legend

d)

A myth

4.

What is a priest or priestess who could tell the future called?

a)

A fable

b)

A Delphi

c)

A seer

d)

An oracle

5.

What is the custom of passing along stories by speech called?

a)

Oral tradition

b)

Story telling

c)

Talk time

d)

Speaking tradition

6.

What did the Greek people expressed through mythology?

a)

Their love of drama

b)

Political beliefs

c)

A way of teaching lessons

d)

Religious beliefs

7.

Which Greek poet wrote several epic poems?

a)

Aesop

b)

Odysseus

c)

Homer

d)

Sophocles

8.

What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals?

a)

Epic and tragedy

b)

Myth and fable

c)

Comedy and tragedy

d)

Comedy and epic

9.

Who were the three best known dramatists that wrote Greek tragedies?

a)

Aeschylus, Homer, and Aesop

b)

Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus

c)

Homer, Euripides, and Sophocles

d)

Aesop, Homer, and Sophocles

10.

What were the three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings?

a)

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

b)

Doric, Athenian, and Ionic

c)

Gregorian, Athenian, and Ionic

d)

Athenian, Parthenon, and Corinthian

11.

Ionic, Doric and Corinthian are three.......

a)

types of columns used on buildings

b)

doctors

c)

city-states in Greece

d)

artists

12.

Hippocrates was a famous doctor that.....

a)

studied the cause of diseases

b)

created an oath called the Hippocratic Oath, that doctors still use today

c)

lived in ancient Greece

d)

all of the above

13.

Ancient Greeks believed in one God.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The Parthenon was a temple built for the goddess Athena

a)

True

b)

False

15.

When was the temple named Parthenon destroyed?

(a)