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Comparing Athens and Sparta + Golden Age

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Women had more rights than in other city-states and participated in sports competitions

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

2.

Valued education – rich boys were trained to be good citizens

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

3.

Girls did not go to school – they were trained to be good mothers and wives

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

4.

No democracy

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

5.

When males turned 18, they entered military school for two additional years until they graduated at age 20.

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

6.

Education was focused on the arts

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

7.

Although women could not vote, they were citizens.

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

8.

Service to the state was the most important, even above the family

a)

Athens

b)

Sparta

9.

Who was the leader of Athens from 461 to 429 BCE?

a)

Homer

b)

Socrates

c)

Herodotus

d)

Pericles

10.

Who was the mathematician and inventor who said "Eureka!"?

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Archimedes

c)

Thucydides

d)

Hippocrates

11.

Who wrote the plays "Antigone" and "Oedipus"?

a)

Sophocles

b)

Homer

c)

Archimedes

d)

Pericles

12.

Who is called the "Father of History"?

a)

Thucydides

b)

Euclid

c)

Sophocles

d)

Herodotus

13.

What type of column is this?

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

14.

Who created the sculpture of Zeus at Olympia?

a)

Aeschylus

b)

Homer

c)

Phidias

d)

Hippocrates

15.

What type of column is this?

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

16.

Who was the tutor of Alexander the Great?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Archimedes

c)

Herodotus

d)

Socrates

17.

Who was the writer of the Iliad and the Odyssey?

a)

Herodotus

b)

Hippocrates

c)

Homer

d)

Hephaestus

18.

What type of column is this?

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

19.

What is the name for the temple of Athena that was also a treasury?

a)

The Polis

b)

The Agora

c)

The Palace

d)

The Parthenon

20.

What type of government did Athens have?

a)

Tyranny

b)

Democracy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Oligarchy