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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which Greek style of teaching used questioning to help people discover truth?
Hectoratic Method
Socratic Method
Euclidic Method
Eratosthenesic Method
- 2. Multiple Choice
What would you read to find Homer’s mythical heroes of the Trojan war?
The Ghost of Sparta
Hercules
Aesop's Fables
The Iliad and Odyssey
- 3. Multiple Choice
What are plays that tell stories of suffering and death?
Tragedies
Comedies
Histories
Biographies
- 4. Multiple Choice
How did the invention of coins change trade?
Coins made trade easier
Coins made trade harder
Coins allowed people to travel to other countries
Coins didn't change trade
- 5. Multiple Choice
Who would have had the right to vote in Ancient Athens?
A woman born in Athens
An adult male slave
A free adult male born in Athens
All of the above
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who is considered to be the father of scientific medicine?
Eratosthenes
Hippocrates
Archimedes
Aristotle
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was not produced or traded by the Greeks?
Olive Oil
Pottery
Silk
Wine
- 8. Multiple Choice
What was the purpose of Greek myths?
to explain why humans or animals behaved like they did
to explain how to make olive oil
to explain what things the Greek people most valued
to explain lessons to the people of Greece
- 9. Multiple Choice
What group of people were the lowest in the hierarchy in Greece?
Nobles
Slaves
Soldiers
Untouchables
- 10. Multiple Choice
The geometry that you learn in middle school is based upon which mathematician’s work?
Archimedes
Euclid
Aristotle
Hippocrates
- 11. Multiple Choice
What does democracy mean?
Ruled by the people
Ruled by the leaders
Ruled by a few
Ruled by the powerful
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes the significance of Ancient Greek art?
Greek art is primitive.
Greek art was dedicated to the gods.
Greek art is crude and deformed.
Greek art is lifelike and realistic.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following activities took place in the agora?
Greeks had religious gatherings
Greeks held political meetings
Greeks bought and sold goods
All of the above
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the overall importance of Greek contributions to our own society?
many are still being used by modern societies
they encouraged people to use reason
they helped Greece become a military power
they showed the curiosity of the Greek mind
- 15. Multiple Choice
What are Aesop's Fables?
Stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece
Stories of the wild and nature
Stories that have moral and animals as characters
Stories of tragedies that happened in ancient Greece
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which is the best description of the geography of Greece?
A mountainous peninsula
An island covered with farmland
A desert surrounding a huge river
A flat coastal plain
- 17. Multiple Choice
How did the geography of Greece contribute to the development of Greek communities?
Greek communities all developed the idea of democracy at the same time.
Greek communities were isolated and developed independently.
Greek communities were extremely similar due to their locations near each other.
Greek communities all refused to have any contact with one another.
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a civilization with independent city-states most like Ancient Greece?
The Sumerians of Mesopotamia
The Chinese Empire under Qin Shi Huangdi
The 3000 year-long civilization of Ancient Egypt
The Gupta Empire of India
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is a deity?
Someone who is super smart
Someone with supernatural powers
The Aryans who conquered India
The philosophers of ancient Greece
- 20. Multiple Choice
What is a tenant farmer?
Someone who owns ten ant farms
The owner of a farm who rents it to someone else
Someone who rents farmland from the upper class
One of the famous Greek gods
- 21. Multiple Choice
What was at the top of the Acropolis?
A crop of corn, wheat, or cotton
A large market place
A pyramid
A temple
- 22. Multiple Choice
What is a government in which only a few people have power?
a tyrant
a monarchy
a dictatorship
an oligarchy
- 23. Multiple Choice
What were the olympic games?
Sporting events that took place every 4 years in honor of Zeus
Sporting events that happened every year
The Superbowl of the ancient world
Storytime at the agora
- 24. Multiple Choice
Where should you go if you have been invited to the “party at the Parthenon?”
The temple for Athena in the middle of Athens
The huge pit in the middle of Sparta
The agora in Corinth
Alexandria, Egypt
- 25. Multiple Choice
The Greek civilizations believed in many gods of natural forces; therefore, what kind of religion did they have?
Monotheistic
Deistic
Atheistic
Polytheistic
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