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Chapter 5 Test 8th World History
Contributed by: Hightower
  • 1. a long poem about heroic deeds
A) myth
B) epic
C) Mount Olympus
D) oracle
E) fable
  • 2. a short tale that teaches a lesson
A) Mount Olympus
B) myth
C) epic
D) oracle
E) fable
  • 3. a priest or priestess who could tell the future
A) myth
B) epic
C) Mount Olympus
D) oracle
E) fable
  • 4. a traditional story about gods and goddesses
A) epic
B) myth
C) oracle
D) fable
E) Mount Olympus
  • 5. the highest mountain in Greece, home to the gods and goddesses
A) myth
B) oracle
C) Mount Olympus
D) epic
E) fable
  • 6. a time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people
A) Philip II
B) Alexander the Great
C) legacy
D) Alexandria
E) Hellenistic Era
  • 7. became king of Macedonia at age 20
A) Hellenistic Era
B) Alexander the Great
C) Alexandria
D) Philip II
E) legacy
  • 8. admirer of Greek ideas who planned to conquer Persia
A) Hellenistic Era
B) Alexander the Great
C) Alexandria
D) legacy
E) Philip II
  • 9. the most important city in the ancient world
A) Alexandria
B) Philip II
C) Alexander the Great
D) legacy
E) Hellenistic Era
  • 10. what a person leaves behind when he or she dies
A) Alexandria
B) Philip II
C) Hellenistic Era
D) legacy
E) Alexander the Great
  • 11. the astronomer who concluded that Earth is round
A) Epicureanism
B) plane geometry
C) Eratosthenes
D) Stoicism
E) solid geometry
  • 12. Happiness comes from doing your duty and following reason, not emotion.
A) Epicureanism
B) solid geometry
C) plane geometry
D) Eratosthenes
E) Stoicism
  • 13. a type of mathematics that relates points, lines, surfaces, and angles to each other
A) solid geometry
B) plane geometry
C) Stoicism
D) Epicureanism
E) Eratosthenes
  • 14. a type of mathematics that deals with spheres and cylinders
A) solid geometry
B) Epicureanism
C) Stoicism
D) plane geometry
E) Eratosthenes
  • 15. Happiness through pleasure is the goal of life.
A) plane geometry
B) Stoicism
C) Epicureanism
D) solid geometry
E) Eratosthenes
  • 16. Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their
A) love of sport.
B) love of poetry.
C) political beliefs.
D) religious beliefs.
  • 17. This Greek poet wrote many poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad.
A) Odysseus
B) Aesop
C) Homer
D) Croesus
  • 18. The Greeks performed both types of drama— ____ —as part of religious festivals.
A) myth and fable
B) epic and tragedy
C) comedy and myth
D) comedy and tragedy
  • 19. The three best-known writers of Greek tragedies were Aeschylus, Euripides, and
A) Aesop
B) Homer
C) Sophocles
D) Aristophanes
  • 20. The three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings were Doric, Ionic, and
A) Athenian.
B) Corinthian.
C) Gregoric
D) Parthenon
  • 21. This philosopher taught that the universe was governed by the same laws as music and numbers.
A) Herodotus
B) Pythagoras
C) Aristotle
D) Plato
  • 22. The word philosophy comes from the Greek word for
A) “love of wisdom.”
B) “love of mathematics.”
C) “love of science.”
D) “love of history.”
  • 23. Socrates was an Athenian sculptor whose true love was
A) philosophy
B) teaching
C) debate
D) writing
  • 24. After he compared 158 governments to find the best one, ____ wrote the book Politics.
A) Herodotus
B) Aristotle
C) Thucydides
D) Plato
  • 25. ____ is considered to be the “father of history.”
A) Herodotus
B) Aristotle
C) Plato
D) Thucydides
  • 26. About the time of 359 B.C., the Macedonian king Philip II was deemed a threat to Greek freedom according to ____, a lawyer and public speaker.
A) Aristotle
B) Plato
C) Demosthenes
D) Thucydides
  • 27. Alexander and his army defeated the local Persian governors in the Battle of
A) Gaugamela
B) Granicus
C) Syria
D) Alexandria
  • 28. Alexander kept a copy of ____ under his pillow.
A) the Iliad
B) Politics
C) the Odyssey
D) History of the Peloponnesian War
  • 29. After his death, Alexander’s empire fell apart because his
A) generals fought one another.
B) children did not like war.
C) army was sick with plague.
D) wife gave away the throne.
  • 30. In Hellenistic kingdoms, government business was conducted in the ____ language.
A) Macedonian
B) Egyptian
C) Greek
D) Persian
  • 31. The library at Alexandria was useful to students of literature and
A) geometry
B) science
C) philosophy
D) language
  • 32. The city of ____ was known as the center of Greek theater.
A) Alexandria
B) Athens
C) Rhodes
D) Zeno
  • 33. ____ is known as “the father of medicine.”
A) Hypatia
B) Hippocrates
C) Hipparchus
D) Aristarchus
  • 34. During the Hellenistic Era, ____ made major discoveries in math and astronomy.
A) stoics
B) physicians
C) scientists
D) armies
  • 35. Archimedes, a scientist, mathematician, and inventor designed the ____ to defend Syracuse.
A) catapult
B) bow and arrow
C) bronze shield
D) iron spear
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