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Ch 5 Vocabulary Test 8th World History
Contributed by: Hightower
  • 1. - Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey during the 700’s B.C.
A) Sophocles
B) Euripides
C) Homer
D) Aesop
E) Myth
  • 2. - A greek slave that created famous fables
A) Sophocles
B) Myth
C) Homer
D) Aesop
E) Euripides
  • 3. - ⅓ best well known writers of greek tragedies wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone
A) Homer
B) Aesop
C) Sophocles
D) Myth
E) Euripides
  • 4. - ⅓ best well known writers of greek tragedies who used more down to earth characters instead of just gods and heros as his contemporaries did.
A) Euripides
B) Homer
C) Sophocles
D) Myth
E) Aesop
  • 5. - Traditional stories about gods and heroes
A) Sophocles
B) Aesop
C) Euripides
D) Homer
E) Myth
  • 6. - People would go here to find out about the future
A) Epic
B) Oracle
C) Drama
D) Tragedy
E) Fable
  • 7. - Long poems that told about heroic deeds
A) Drama
B) Fable
C) Epic
D) Tragedy
E) Oracle
  • 8. - Short tale that teaches a lesson
A) Fable
B) Tragedy
C) Oracle
D) Drama
E) Epic
  • 9. - Story told by actors who pretend to be in the story
A) Epic
B) Oracle
C) Fable
D) Tragedy
E) Drama
  • 10. - A person who struggles to overcome difficulties but fails
A) Oracle
B) Fable
C) Epic
D) Tragedy
E) Drama
  • 11. - The story ends happily
A) Pythagoras
B) Comedy
C) Socrates
D) Plato
E) Aristotle
  • 12. - A Greek philosopher (he developed many ideas in mathematics)
A) Socrates
B) Pythagoras
C) Plato
D) Comedy
E) Aristotle
  • 13. - A critic of the Sophists ( a Greek philosopher)
A) Pythagoras
B) Aristotle
C) Socrates
D) Plato
E) Comedy
  • 14. - A student of Socrates
A) Comedy
B) Pythagoras
C) Socrates
D) Plato
E) Aristotle
  • 15. - Plato’s best student
A) Pythagoras
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Comedy
E) Aristotle
  • 16. - Wrote the history of the Persian Wars
A) Philosopher
B) Philosophy
C) Herodotus
D) Sophist
E) Thucydides
  • 17. - Many historians consider him as the greatest historian of the ancient world
A) Sophist
B) Thucydides
C) Philosopher
D) Philosophy
E) Herodotus
  • 18. - Comes from the greek word for “love of wisdom”
A) Herodotus
B) Thucydides
C) Philosophy
D) Philosopher
E) Sophist
  • 19. - Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything
A) Sophist
B) Herodotus
C) Thucydides
D) Philosopher
E) Philosophy
  • 20. - Professional teachers in ancient Greece
A) Herodotus
B) Philosophy
C) Thucydides
D) Sophist
E) Philosopher
  • 21. - Rose to the throne in Macedonia in 359 B.C.
A) Theocritus
B) Hellenistic Era
C) Alexander the Great
D) Philip ll
E) Legacy
  • 22. A military leader; he helped Greek and Macedonian rule over a vast area
A) Legacy
B) Hellenistic Era
C) Alexander the Great
D) Theocritus
E) Philip ll
  • 23. - What a person leaves behind when he or she dies
A) Legacy
B) Philip ll
C) Theocritus
D) Alexander the Great
E) Hellenistic Era
  • 24. - Comes from the Greek word meaning “like the Greeks” (refers back to a time when Greek language and ideas spread to non-Greeks in southwest Asia
A) Hellenistic Era
B) Alexander the Great
C) Theocritus
D) Legacy
E) Philip ll
  • 25. - A poet who wrote short poems about the beauty of nature
A) Alexander the Great
B) Philip ll
C) Legacy
D) Theocritus
E) Hellenistic Era
  • 26. - An astronomer from Samos
A) Epicureanism
B) Eratosthenes
C) Archimedes
D) Euclid
E) Aristarchus
  • 27. - An astronomer who was in charge of the library of Alexandria
A) Eratosthenes
B) Epicureanism
C) Archimedes
D) Euclid
E) Aristarchus
  • 28. - Most famous Greek mathematician
A) Epicureanism
B) Eratosthenes
C) Euclid
D) Aristarchus
E) Archimedes
  • 29. - Most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era
A) Archimedes
B) Eratosthenes
C) Aristarchus
D) Epicureanism
E) Euclid
  • 30. - Epicurus founded a philosophy that taught that happiness was the goal to life
A) Epicureanism
B) Eratosthenes
C) Euclid
D) Archimedes
E) Aristarchus
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