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1
Which is true about slavery in ancient Athens?
Athenians were focused on warfare, so relied on slave labor for everything.
Athenians were outnumbered by their slaves.
Athenians would routinely kill their slaves to control their numbers.
Athenians had the largest slave population in Ancient Greece.
2
Who was a hero of the Trojan War, considered the greatest of all the Greek warriors?
Archimedes
Achilles
Hercules
Homer
3
In which were the Greeks significantly outnumbered, but they made a heroic stand to delay the Persians long enough?
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Plataea
Peloponnesian War
Battle of Marathon
4
Which best describes ancient Athens?
Considered the birthplace of democracy and led the Delian League.
Kingdom in northern Greece that dominanted during the Hellenistic era.
Valued warfare above all else and did not leave behind any great works.
Led city-states from mainland Greece in a war against Troy.
5
Which does NOT describe the ideals of the Classical Greeks?
They model themselves after Greek heroes.
They believed in superstition instead of reason and logic.
They were prideful, sometimes to a fault.
They looked upon Greek heroes as ideal Greeks.
6
What was the lasting impact of the Hellenistic empire established by Alexander the Great?
It spread Greek ideas and language across three continents.
It helped spread Buddhism by adopting it as a state religion.
It helped lead to the development of democracy in Greece.
It created a long-lasting unified Greek empire.
7
Which best describes ancient Sparta?
Considered the birthplace of democracy and led the Delian League.
Early Bronze Age seafaring civilization located on Crete.
Valued warfare above all else and did not leave behind any great works.
Kingdom in northern Greece that dominanted during the Hellenistic era.
8
Who was the philosopher who "founded" Western philosophy and was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens?
Aristotle
Plato
Homer
Socrates
9
Which best describes a direct democracy?
People electing others to represent them and make decisions on their behalf
Ruler who rules with absolute power.
People participating in decision making through mass meetings.
Small group of people who rule by nobility, wealth, or military service.
10
Which is a rectangular military formation of soldiers armed with spears, forming a shield wall?
a pericles
a phalanx
an infantry square
a hoplite
11
Which is NOT one of the values of the ancient Greeks?
reason
excellence
courage
unity
12
Which did Alexander NOT do to unite and control his empire?
He encouraged his soldiers to marry Persian wives.
He kept local rulers in power.
He divided up his empire amongst his generals into separate monarchies.
He married a Persian wife.
13
In which time period did Athens experience a Golden Age?
Greek Dark Ages
Hellenstic Period
Ancient Period
Classical Period
14
Who was the influential Greek writer who authored the epic poems the
Iliad
and
Odyssey
?
Homer
Pheidippides
Aristotle
Archimedes
15
How did the people in Athens find out what had happened at the Battle of Marathon?
They heard about it when the soldiers returned home from the battle.
A man ran all the way from the battlefield to Athens.
A messenger on horseback rode to Athens with the news.
They went out to the battlefield to watch for themselves.
16
Which was NOT a result of the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta lost the war in the end.
The Delian League was disbanded.
One-third of the population of Athens was killed by a plague.
It weakened the Greek city-states.
17
Who was the Greek playwright of Greek tragedies such as
Oedipus Rex
and
Antigone
?
Plato
Socrates
Sophocles
Homer
18
In which is the famous city of Alexandria located?
Macedonia
Persia
Greece
Egypt
19
Which best describes the Minoan Civilization?
Kingdom in northern Greece that dominanted during the Hellenistic era.
Considered the birthplace of democracy and led the Delian League.
Early Bronze Age seafaring civilization located on Crete.
Valued warfare above all else and did not leave behind any great works.
20
Which is a citizen-soldier of a Greek city-state who was primarily armed with a spear and shield?
Spartan
immortal
tyrant
hoplite
21
Where was Alexander the Great’s military success finally halted?
India
Persia
Egypt
China
22
Who was an Athenian statesman and general who led Athens during its Golden Age?
Pericles
Pheidippides
Socrates
Philip II
23
Which is the famous city that Alexander founded in Egypt?
Alexandria
Persepolis
Thebes
Athens
24
Which describes Hellenistic art?
surrealistic
abstract
idealistic
realistic
25
Which was a time period in which there was a lack of written records in Greece?
Greek Dark Ages
Hellenistic Period
Ancient Period
Classical Period
26
Which was NOT one of the lasting impacts of the ancient Greeks?
architecture
religion
government
theater
27
Who was the messenger who ran from the Battle of Marathon to Athens to deliver news of the Greek victory?
Plato
Aristotle
Usain Bolt
Pheidippides
28
Who was the Greek scientist and inventor credited with the screw pump and the approximation of pi?
Plato
Pheidippides
Archimedes
Aristotle
29
Who was a Macedonian king who conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture to non-Greek lands?
Philip II
Achilles
Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
30
Which statement is NOT true regarding the life of women in Ancient Greece?
Spartan women married young, and to only have children and keep house.
Spartan women were allowed to speak their minds in public.
Athenian women needed a male companion when traveling outside of the home.
Athenian women were provided no formal education.
31
What were Spartan boys trained to be from childhood?
scribes
philosophers
soldiers
artists
32
Which is a soldier who fights primarily for pay?
pirate
mercenary
hoplite
immortal
33
Which describes Classical Greek art?
surrealistic
idealistic
abstract
realistic
34
In which city was the Great Library built?
Athens
Alexandria
Persepolis
Babylon
35
Which was a characteristic of ancient Athens?
Was a military state focused on warfare.
Conquered their neighbors as a slave force known as Helots.
Created great works of art, architecture, and literature.
Women had greater freedom than other Greek city-states.
36
Which was the tutor of Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
Achilles
Archimedes
Agamemnon
37
Which did Philip II want the Greeks to help him do?
Attack the city of Troy.
Conquer Macedonia.
Form the Delian League.
Invade the Persian Empire.
38
Which of these did NOT divide the Greeks?
The Peloponnesian War.
Types of government.
The Greco-Persian Wars.
Mountainous peninsulas and archipelagos.
39
Which best describes the form of government of Athens during the Classical Era?
monarchy
direct democracy
republic
representative democracy
40
Who was the Persian king who vowed revenge on the Greeks and invaded Greece in 480 BC?
Cyrus the Great
Darius I
Darius III
Xerxes
41
Which is the correct order of teacher and student?
Sophist - Pericles - Archimedes - Alexander the Great
Socrates - Paris - Agamemnon - Alexander the Great
Socrates - Plato - Aristotle - Alexander the Great
Sophocles - Philip - Achilles - Alexander the Great
42
Which best describes a legend?
Stories with gods, demigods, or creatures that don't exist.
An organized system of thought concerned with using reason and logic
Stories about everyday humans which may or may not be true.
Long poem that tells deeds of a great hero such as the Iliad and Odyssey.
43
Who was a Macedonian king who sought to unite Greece and invade the Persian Empire?
Archimedes
Philip II
Xerxes
Pheidippides
44
Which best describes ancient Macedonia?
Valued warfare above all else and did not leave behind any great works.
Kingdom in northern Greece that dominanted during the Hellenistic era.
Early Bronze Age seafaring civilization located on Crete.
Considered the birthplace of democracy and led the Delian League.
45
Which is the correct order of time periods from first to last?
Archaic Greece - Greek Dark Ages - Greek Golden Age - Greek Heroic Age
Ancient Greece - Greek Dark Ages - Classical Greece - Hellenistic Greece
Greek Dark Ages - Greek Heroic Age - Greek Golden Age - Hellenistic Greece
Greek Dark Ages - Archaic Greece - Classical Greece - Greek Heroic Age
