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World History 1: SOL Review - Artists and Thinkers (Quizs)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Greek playwright. Considered the 'Father of Tragedy'

a)

Sophocles

b)

Euripides

c)

Aeschylus

d)

Aristophanes

2.

Northern Renaissance writer. Wrote The Praise of Folly.

a)

Erasmus

b)

Thomas More

c)

Martin Luther

d)

John Calvin

3.

Greek who created statues of the gods like Zeus at Olympia.

a)

Phidias

b)

Praxiteles

c)

Myron

d)

Polykleitos

4.

Roman scientist, astronomer, and geographer who believed the earth was the center of the universe.

a)

Copernicus

b)

Galileo

c)

Ptolemy

d)

Kepler

5.

Brought the idea of printing to Europe with the Printing Press

a)

Erasmus

b)

Gutenburg

c)

Da Vinci

d)

Copernicus

6.

Greek mathematician. Developed a² + b² = c²

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Euclid

c)

Archimedes

d)

Thales

7.

Martyr during the Northern Renaissance. Wrote Utopia.

a)

Sir Thomas More

b)

John Locke

c)

Thomas Hobbes

d)

Rene Descartes

8.

Humanist writer during the Renaissance. Wrote sonnets.

a)

Dante

b)

Petrarch

c)

Boccaccio

d)

Machiavelli

9.

Roman who wrote the epic poem the Aeneid.

a)

Homer

b)

Ovid

c)

Virgil

d)

Catullus

10.

Took the Cyrillic alphabet to Eastern Europe/Russia

a)

St. Cyril

b)

St. Methodius

c)

Ivan the Terrible

d)

Peter the Great

11.

Greek playwright. Wrote Oedipus Rex.

a)

Euripides

b)

Aeschylus

c)

Sophocles

d)

Aristophanes

12.

Greek who practiced medicine. Has an oath named after him.

a)

Hippocrates

b)

Aristotle

c)

Plato

d)

Galileo

13.

During the Renaissance, he wrote a book to help rulers keep their thrones (The Prince).

a)

Machiavelli

b)

Plato

c)

Aristotle

d)

Socrates

14.

Painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel. Sculpted David (Renaissance)

a)

Leonardo da Vinci

b)

Raphael

c)

Michelangelo

d)

Donatello

15.

Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

a)

Homer

b)

Virgil

c)

Sappho

d)

Ovid

16.

Greeks Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

a)

Scientists

b)

Philosophers

c)

Mathematicians

d)

Historians

17.

Greek scientist. Computed Pi and created the lever.

a)

Archimedes

b)

Euclid

c)

Pythagoras

d)

Hippocrates

18.

Greek historians that wrote about the wars.

a)

Thucydides/Herodotus

b)

Plato/Socrates

c)

Aristotle/Euripides

d)

Xenophon/Polybius

19.

Greek Mathematician. Father of Geometry.

a)

Pythagoras

b)

Archimedes

c)

Euclid

d)

Thales

20.

Renaissance man Known for the Mona Lisa & The Last Supper.

a)

Michelangelo

b)

Raphael

c)

da Vinci

d)

Donatello