Ancient Greece Test

1. Greece is on the continent of _______ .
a) Africa
b) Europe
c) Asia

2. The land in Greece is ________ .
a) mountainous
b) rolling hills
c) desert
d) swampy

3. The Greeks built important buildings on a hill and called it the _________ .
a) court house
b) acropolis
c) temple
d) parthenon

4. The acropolis was used for __________________ .
a) restaurants, ruler's home, and parties
b) theaters, stores, and churches
c) religious festival, banks, and fortress

5. _____ was the main Olympian god.
a) Hades
b) Hephaestus
c) Hermes
d) Zeus

6. The Greeks believed in ____________ .
a) one god
b) many gods

7. Greeks traveled by land a lot.
a) True
b) False

8. The Greek city-states did not want to be ruled by the Persians.
a) True
b) False

9. The Greeks won all the battle against the Persians.
a) True
b) False

10. Darius I fought the Greeks at Marathon and won.
a) True
b) False

11. Xerxes fought the Spartans at Thermoplae an won.
a) True
b) False

12. The Persians fought the Athenians in a bloody sea battle and won.
a) True
b) False

13. King Phillip was a stupid leader.
a) True
b) False

14. Alexander the Great was carrying out his father's plan when he invaded Persia.
a) True
b) False

15. The Athenians had the best ______ .
a) crops
b) navy
c) clothing

16. The Spartans attacked the Athenians because they took money from the ships and used it to __________ .
a) build their own acropolis
b) feed the poor
c) buy land

17. The Spartans won the war by ___________ .
a) killing every Athenian
b) cutting off the Athenians' food supply
c) tearing down the acropolis

18. Which of the following was NOT a type of government used by the city states?
a) democracy with president
b) tyrant
c) priest ruler
d) family king

19. Beginning in about 775 B. C. the people of Greece began holding athletic games every four year in the city of __________ .
a) Athens
b) Sparta
c) Olympia

20. The winners of the Olympic games won _________ .
a) feathers
b) olive wreaths
c) trophies
d) medals

21. _________ was a famous Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey.
a) Homer
b) Aesop
c) Hermes
d) Trojan

22. The Greeks won the Trojan War by getting inside the walls of Troy in a ___________ .
a) balloon
b) horse
c) boat

23. Odysseus took _________ to get home.
a) two days
b) one week
c) ten years

24. The Odyssey is about Odysseus' adventures on his way home after the _________ .
a) attack at Sparta
b) Olympic Games
c) Persian War
d) Trojan War

25. The people of Athens were the first to believe in __________ .
a) tyrant rule
b) democracy rule
c) aristocratic rule

26. The Greeks built large ________ which could hold 14,000 people.
a) theaters
b) swimming pools
c) temples



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