WorksheetsAncient Greece Test Review
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Because traveling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks ____________________.
a)
learned how to climb mountains
b)
took up farming
c)
became expert shipbuilders
d)
gave up trying to travel
2.
The Greek word for city-state is ____________________
a)
colonies
b)
polis
c)
acropolis
d)
agora
3.
The name for a fortress atop a tall hill in the center of the city-state.
a)
colony
b)
polis
c)
acropolis
d)
agora
4.
The Greek ____________ provided security, stability, and identity to the people who lived there.
a)
colony
b)
agora
c)
polis
d)
acropolis
5.
Why did separate governments develop in ancient Greece?
a)
The rivers allowed for more trade
b)
People did not like each other
c)
There were too many different cultures
d)
The geography isolated villages
6.
Type of government in which people rule themselves
a)
oligarchy
b)
democracy
c)
aristocrates
d)
tyrant
7.
Rich landowners were called ________________
a)
oligarchy
b)
tyrant
c)
aristocrates
d)
democrats
8.
A leader who uses force is called a _____________.
a)
tyrant
b)
polis
c)
aristocrate
d)
president
9.
People with the right to participate in government were called __________________ .
a)
aristocrats
b)
tyrants
c)
citizens
d)
peasants
10.
Athenian democracy was limited because only ________ could vote in elections.
a)
enslaved people
b)
male citizens
c)
women
d)
foreigners
11.
Who is known as the father of democracy?
a)
Cleisthenes
b)
Pericles
c)
Thucydides
d)
Solon
12.
What causes the Peloponnesian War to begin?
a)
Greek cities feared Athens would control Greece.
b)
Sparta refused to join Athens in the Delian League.
c)
Athens quit the Peloponnesian League.
d)
Athens joined forces with the Persians
13.
The Peloponnesian War lasted for 10 years before they agreed to a truce, which is an agreement to
a)
stay away from each other
b)
stop fighting
c)
become friends
d)
take a break from fighting for a year
14.
How were Athenian and Spartan societies different?
a)
Athenian women received more education that Spartan women did.
b)
Unlike Spartan men, Athenian men were not required to join the army.
c)
Unlike Spartan boys, wealthy Athenian boys focused on education and the arts
d)
Athenian women owned more property that Spartan women did.
15.
What is an alliance?
a)
limited power
b)
war
c)
an agreement to work together
d)
an agreement to trade
16.
What is the purpose of Aesop's fables?
a)
to show that animals can reason
b)
to demonstrate shared cultural values
c)
to show that animals face difficulties to survive
d)
to teach children moral lessons
17.
A body of stories about gods or heroes that tries to explain how the world works
a)
fables
b)
alliance
c)
acropolis
d)
mythology
18.
Short stories that offer lessons on living are called _____________.
a)
mythology
b)
acropolis
c)
poems
d)
fables
19.
The most famous lyrical poet in ancient Greece was
a)
Homer
b)
Sappho
c)
Aesop
d)
Socrates
20.
The author of the world's most famous set of fables was __________________.
a)
Homer
b)
Sappho
c)
Aesop
d)
Socrates
21.
Greek Myths were stories that explained _____________.
a)
what things the Greek people valued the most.
b)
why natural and historical events happened.
c)
why humans should worship the gods.
d)
why humans and animals behaved the way they did.
22.
What is a deity?
a)
Greeks mythology that explains why natural events occurred
b)
short stories that offer lessons on living
c)
body of stories about gods or heroes that tries to explain how the world works
d)
any being that a culture believes has divine power over its people
23.
_______ believe in the power of the human mind to think, explain, and understand life
a)
doctors
b)
astronomers
c)
philosophers
d)
musicians
24.
Clear and ordered thinking is known as ________________.
a)
democracy
b)
reason
c)
conflict
d)
sympathy
25.
The first of the great Greek thinkers and teachers
a)
Socrates
b)
Plato
c)
Aristotle
d)
Euclid
26.
Great and influential mathematician
a)
Euclid
b)
Socrates
c)
Aristotle
d)
Plato
27.
A great Greek doctor who taught how to treat disease by understanding what caused illness
a)
Euclid
b)
Hippocrates
c)
Socrates
d)
Plato
28.
Teacher and thinker, student of Socrates, and founder of the Academy
a)
Euclid
b)
Socrates
c)
Aritstotle
d)
Plato
29.
Hippocrates is best known today for the Hippocratic Oath, which explained that doctors should behave ________.
a)
unfairly
b)
immorally
c)
honorably
d)
happily
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