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Ancient Greece Practice Test
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  • 1. What is a Mediterranean climate like?
A) Hot all year round
B) Hot, wet summers/ cool, dry winters
C) Cold summers/ hot winters
D) Hot, dry summers/ cool, rainy winters
  • 2. What is the highest mountain in Greece?
A) Rockies
B) Mount Olympus
C) Kilimanjaro
D) Himilayas
  • 3. What was the Greeks most common drink?
A) Water
B) Kool-Aid
C) Wine mixed with water
D) Wine
  • 4. What sea did the Greek civilization develop by?
A) Dead
B) Indian
C) Mediterranean
D) Red
  • 5. A portion of land that is surrounded by water on three sides is called a/an?
A) Peninsula
B) Delta
C) Island
D) Levee
  • 6. What is the largest island in present day Greece called?
A) Hawaii
B) Olympus
C) Zeus
D) Crete
  • 7. The Greeks sailded only in the what?
A) Pacific Ocean
B) Rivers
C) Winter
D) Daylight
  • 8. What is the word that means someone who steers a course through water?
A) Leader
B) God
C) Guide
D) Navigator
  • 9. The Minoan civilization was destroyed by what?
A) A Volcano
B) War
C) Rock Slides
D) Earthquakes
  • 10. The ancient city that was dug up in the early part of last century?
A) Knossas
B) Atlantis
C) Crete
D) Olympus
  • 11. An enclosed, protected place.
A) Amphitheater
B) Fortress
C) Enclosure
D) Tomb
  • 12. Who guarded the gates at Mycenae?
A) The Gods
B) Two Stone Lions
C) Fierce Warriors
D) Farmers
  • 13. Who wrote about the destruction of Troy?
A) Alexander the Great
B) Iliad
C) Homer
D) Perseus
  • 14. What were the names of Homer's two famous poems?
A) Jack & Jill
B) Iliad & Odyssey
C) Zeus & Helen of Troy
D) Prometheus & Athena
  • 15. A long, narrative poem about great heroes and their deeds is called a/an _____ poem.
A) Epic
B) Grecian
C) Heroic
D) Mythic
  • 16. Traditional stories about the origins and doings of their gods is known as what?
A) Fables
B) Mythology
C) Tragedy
D) Greek Stories
  • 17. A story that teaches a moral or practical lesson.
A) Epic Poem
B) Greek Poem
C) Myth
D) Fable
  • 18. Every Greek city had its own what?
A) Theater
B) Bathroom
C) Fortress
D) God
  • 19. What were the two types of plays?
A) Tragedies & Romances
B) Comedies & Tragedies
C) Disasters & Fables
D) Comedies & Romances
  • 20. What great Greek architectural work still stands to this day?
A) The Parthenon
B) The Great Amphitheater
C) Zeus's Palace
D) The Greek Theater
  • 21. What area was the Greeks greatest contribution to learning?
A) Philosophy
B) Latin
C) Plumbing
D) Psychology
  • 22. What major sporting event came from the Greeks?
A) The Olympics
B) Wrestling
C) Ice Hockey
D) Shuffleboard
  • 23. What form of government do we have that comes from the Greeks?
A) Capitalistic
B) Communist
C) Dictatorship
D) Democracy
  • 24. Who is considered "The Father of Athenian Democracy"?
A) Poseidon
B) Solon
C) Pericles
D) Aristotle
  • 25. A group of people called into court to give a verdict, or decision, in a dispute.
A) Jury
B) Congress
C) Parthenon
D) Committee
  • 26. The city that was ruled like a military camp.
A) Crete
B) Troy
C) Persia
D) Sparta
  • 27. What happened to weak or deformed babies in Sparta?
A) They were nursed back to health.
B) They were left to die, or thrown from the cliffs.
C) They were fed to the lions.
D) They were given up for adoption.
  • 28. Who were the Greeks greatest enemies?
A) Spartans
B) Persians
C) Romans
D) Egyptians
  • 29. What Greek leader succeeded Phillip II as ruler of Greece?
A) Alexander the Great
B) Cyrus
C) Darius I
D) Xerxes
  • 30. How old was Alexander when he took over as ruler?
A) 20
B) 12
C) 19
D) 71
  • 31. What civilization resulted from Greek and Middle Eastern cultures?
A) Grecian
B) Elizabethan
C) Hellenistic
D) Minoan
  • 32. The top of a column is called its what?
A) Abacus
B) Peak
C) Capital
D) Fulcrum
  • 33. Ideas and things handed down to us from the past is called our what?
A) Ancestry
B) Heritage
C) Inheritance
D) Culture
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