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WorksheetsThe Legacy of Ancient Greece
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Hippocrates was an important Greek doctor. Which statement would he most likely have made?
a)
“You are sick because the gods are angry at you.”
b)
“I will operate on your spine.”
c)
“You must let me try this experiment on you.”
d)
“I observe that you got sick after eating that meat.”
2.
With which field are Pythagoras and Euclid associated?
a)
Chemistry
b)
Geometry
c)
Linguistics
d)
Literature
3.
Because the ancient Greeks developed democracy, which of the following is part of American politics today?
a)
A council of elders
b)
Juries of citizens
c)
A national religion
d)
A symbolic royalty
4.
What would Socrates have liked about the way Greeks approached their studies?
a)
They asked a lot of questions
b)
They worked in large groups
c)
They believed in the gods
d)
They built machines to help them
5.
Greece contributed to our language today. The word geography comes from the Greek words meaning…
a)
Classifying plants
b)
Classifying animals
c)
Writing about Earth
d)
Writing about the stars
6.
This picture of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC shows that
a)
Americans value the teaching of ancient Greek religion
b)
Americans use stone from Greece to build public buildings
c)
Americans are influenced by ancient Greek architecture
d)
Americans use ancient Greek architecture to design homes
7.
To which of the following did the Greeks make major contributions?
a)
theater and religion
b)
religion and medicine
c)
cooking and medicine
d)
language and government
8.
Ancient Greeks looked to math and science for logical answers to their questions about nature. Often the ideas from one field contributed to understanding in another. To which field of study would the efforts of this man not contribute?
a)
Geometry
b)
Astronomy
c)
Geography
d)
Biology
9.
Today, people who become a doctor take the __________________________ Oath.
a)
Pentathlon
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Hipparchus
d)
Hippocratic
10.
__________________ comes from the Greek word “star”.
a)
Geometry
b)
Geography
c)
Astronomy
d)
Architecture
11.
_________________ believed that numbers were the key to understanding nature.
a)
Ptolemy
b)
Pythagoras
c)
Geometry
d)
Archimedes
12.
_________________ are the imaginary lines that run from the North and South poles on the globe.
a)
Geometry
b)
Longitude
c)
Latitude
d)
Pentathlon
13.
_________________ is the measure of how far a place on Earth is from the equator.
a)
Geometry
b)
Longitude
c)
Latitude
d)
Pentathlon
14.
We classify animals and plants today because of the work of _____________________.
a)
Aristotle
b)
Ptolemy
c)
Hipparchus
d)
Archimedes
15.
______________________ comes from the Greek word that means “master builder”.
a)
Pentathlon
b)
Astronomy
c)
Architecture
d)
Geography
16.
Alexandria was the first woman to earn fame as a mathematician.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
Geometry began as a system for measuring areas of land.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.
a)
True
b)
False
19.
Archimedes is called the “father of modern medicine”.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
Ancient Greeks originally believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
a)
True
b)
False
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