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SS6 Ch 5 Nelson:

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A commander in the Army at 16 and king at 20.

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Sophocles

c)

Thucydides

d)

Alexander

2.

A traditional story about gods and heroes .

a)

myth

b)

Stoics

c)

Hellenistic Era

d)

Sophocles

3.

Considered by some to be the greatest historian of the ancient world

a)

Sophists

b)

Macedonia

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Thucydides

4.

Taught that the Universe followed the same rules as music and numbers

a)

Hellenistic Era

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Alexander

d)

Thucydides

5.

Greece's northern neighbor

a)

Mount Olympus

b)

Macedonia

c)

Sophists

d)

Sophocles

6.

Taught that happiness came from reason and doing one's duty

a)

Alexander

b)

Sophocles

c)

Sophists

d)

Stoics

7.

Taught that there was no absolute right and wrong.

a)

Sophocles

b)

Stoics

c)

Hellenistic Era

d)

Sophists

8.

Dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story

a)

Alexander

b)

Sophocles

c)

myth

d)

Thucydides

9.

Highest mountain in Greece

a)

Mount Olympics

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Macedonia

d)

Alexander

10.

A time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world

a)

Alexander

b)

Sophocles

c)

myth

d)

Hellenistic Era

11.

Who said, "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the Earth"?

a)

Phillip II

b)

Homer

c)

Euripides

d)

Archimedes

12.

Who thought that governments should be headed by philosopher-kings?

a)

Alexander the Great

b)

Plato

c)

Aristophanes

d)

Jason

13.

Who freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian rule?

a)

Phillip II

b)

Demosthenes

c)

Alexander the Great

d)

Euclid

14.

The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by performing

a)

acrobatics

b)

rituals

c)

tragedies

d)

dances

15.

Phillip II got some Greek cities to join him by

a)

conquering them

b)

inviting them

c)

bribing them

d)

all of these

16.

Who told King Ptolemy that "There is no royal way to learn geometry"?

a)

Euclid

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Aristotle

d)

Poseidon

17.

This Macedonian king Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia.

a)

Alexander the Great

b)

Aeschylus

c)

Philip II

d)

Homer

18.

Homer's epic, the Iliad, is about

a)

The Trojan War

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Gilgamesh

d)

the Oracle at Delphi

19.

Who was the goddess of wisdom and crafts?

a)

Aphrodite

b)

Artemis

c)

Athena

d)

Apollo

20.

Herodotus wrote

a)

The Odyssey

b)

the History of the Persian Wars

c)

The Book of the Dead

d)

Antigone