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Ancient Greece Test Review

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Athena was the goddess of

a)

the sun

b)

wisdom

c)

love and beauty

2.

Apollo was known as the

a)

god of marriage

b)

god of the sky

c)

sun god

3.

Goddess of marriage and Zeus' wife

a)

Aphrodite

b)

Hera

c)

Hermes

4.

Known for their plays and dramas

a)

Herodotus

b)

Sophocles and Aeschulyus

c)

Phidias

5.

Father of history but exaggerated the facts

a)

Thucydides

b)

Homer

c)

Herodotus

6.

Created famous sculptures

a)

Phidias

b)

Sophocles

c)

Pythagoras

7.

Blind poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey

a)

Thucydides

b)

Homer

c)

Euclid

8.

Father of Medicine

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Hippopatamus

c)

Socrates

9.

Father of geometry

a)

Euclid

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Algebrar

10.

Scientist who created simple tools; bouyancy

a)

Pericles

b)

Micheline

c)

Archimedes

11.

Aristotle's most famous student

a)

Alexander the Great

b)

Asoka

c)

Plato

12.

Father of philosophy; taught the youth to think for themselves

a)

Socrates

b)

Plato

c)

Homer

13.

Student of Plato; thought democracy led to mob rule

a)

Aristotle

b)

Alexander

c)

Pharaoh

14.

Alexander the Great ruled the largest empire, spanning from Greece, south to the Nile river and then stopping in India. 

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Alexander the Great conquered Greece

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Which is NOT one of the seas that surrounds the Greek peninsula?

a)

Black Sea

b)

Aegean Sea

c)

Adriatic Sea

17.

What prevented Greece from having one strong united government?

a)

mountains

b)

rivers

c)

seas

d)

f

18.

Which peninsula is Greece on?

a)

Anatolia

b)

Balkan

c)

Italian

19.

High fortified city on a hill is known as the

a)

agora

b)

acropolis

c)

assembly

20.

Known as the marketplace at the foot of the acropolis

a)

agora

b)

acropolis

c)

lottery

21.

Due to geography, Greeks set up these all over the Mediterranean

a)

colonies

b)

sailors

c)

empires

22.

Sparta is located on which peninsula?

a)

Attica

b)

Balkan

c)

Peloponnesus

23.

Athens is on this peninsula

a)

Attica

b)

Balkan

c)

Peloponnesus

24.

Correct order of Athenian government

a)

Monarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, democracy

b)

monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, democracy

c)

democracy, aristocracy, monarchy, tyranny

25.

Free adult males were

a)

citizens

b)

helots

c)

assembly

26.

Farmable land

a)

arable

b)

famine

c)

oligarchy

27.

law making body in Athens

a)

Congress

b)

Democracy

c)

Assembly

28.

The Persian Wars included all of Greece against Persia and was started by which Greek city-states assistance of Ionia?

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

c)

Troy

29.

What did the Peloponnesian Wars lead to?

a)

fall of Greece

b)

unification of Greece

c)

Persia taking over

30.

Athens started the Peloponnesian Wars with Sparta because they thought they were becoming too dominant.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

Plain columns

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

32.

Fancy columns with leaves

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

33.

Which letter represents Athens

a)

B

b)

D

c)

F

34.

Which letter represents the Mediterranean Sea

a)

C

b)

3

c)

E

35.

Which represents Sparta?

a)

H

b)

F

c)

B

36.

Which letter represents the Peloponnesus Peninsula

a)

B

b)

E

c)

A

37.

Slavery was based on race

a)

True

b)

False

38.

Which description does NOT match the characteristics of the Athenians?

a)

birthplace of democracy

b)

located on the Peloponnesus Peninsula

c)

had a great navy

39.

The Parthenon is dedicated to which goddess?

a)

Aphrodite

b)

Hera

c)

Athena

40.

A deity is a

a)

god

b)

leader

c)

soldier