Ancient Greece Vocabulary Quiz
  • 1. A city that is also an independent nation.
A) country
B) state
C) Poli/Polis or city-state
D) union
  • 2. Government ruled by the people instead of a king.
A) democracy
B) oligarchy
C) patriarchy
D) monarchy
  • 3. A government ruled by a small group of people.
A) oligarchy
B) monarchy
C) democracy
D) teacher
  • 4. Individual, powerful ruler of a country who is not a lawful king.
A) terror
B) Hagar the Great
C) tyrant
D) ruler
  • 5. The methods and plans a government uses to do its work.
A) legislature
B) policy
C) rules
  • 6. The main marketplace in a Greek city.
A) agora
B) Target
C) shopping mall
  • 7. The highest part of a city; often the site for a temple.
A) acropolis
B) sky
C) metropolitan
  • 8. A temple to Athena located on the Acropolis.
A) Zeus
B) Mount Olympus
C) Parthenon
D) Egyptian
  • 9. The combined military forces of several poli.
A) league
B) Navy
C) legit
D) Army
  • 10. Two epic poems written by Homer.
A) The Gods and The Goddesses
B) The Illiad and the Odyssey
C) The Triad and the Metropolis
D) The Rules and Rulers
  • 11. To blockade a walled city.
A) attack
B) siege
C) corrupt
D) subterfuge
  • 12. The first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet
A) & and @
B) A and B
C) Alpha and Omega
  • 13. A decorated horizontal band that runs above doorways and windows.
A) fresco
B) painting
C) frieze
D) rope
  • 14. A long poem about great heroes and their adventures.
A) book
B) epic
C) story time
D) adventure
  • 15. Nine sisters who were the goddesses of inspiration, learning and the arts.
A) siblings
B) musters
C) muses
D) Medusa
  • 16. A priestess who speaks for the Gods.
A) oracle
B) Cleopatra
C) Pharaoh
D) muse
  • 17. Government by divine guidance, it comes from the Greek word theo which means god.
A) theocracy
B) monarchy
C) democracy
D) oligarchy
  • 18. Government by one (mono means one); a king or emporer.
A) monarchy
B) priest
C) oligarchy
D) democracy
  • 19. A male citizen of ancient Athens.
A) freeman
B) slave
C) immortal
D) helot
  • 20. The father of philosphy.
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Alexander the Great
D) Socrates
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