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Ancient Greece - Chapter 11
Test Description: Review the geography of Ancient Greece along with their religion and literature, the beginnings of democracy and the city-states of Athens and Sparta
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) In Greece, a ____________________ was someone who took power in an illegal way.
A
oligarchy
B
aristocracy
C
helot
D
tyrant
2) The Spartans forced the people that they defeated to become slaves called ____________________.
A
polis
B
tyrnats
C
citizen
D
helots
3) A blind man named Homer composed the most famous ____________________ in Ancient Greece.
A
polis
B
myths
C
fables
D
epic poems
4) A storyteller named Aesop is credited with writing many Greek ____________________that used animals to teach moral lessons.
A
epic poems
B
fables
C
myths
D
isthmus
5) An ____________________ connects the Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece.
A
peninsula
B
archipelago
C
isthmus
D
polis
6) In Greece, the ____________________ were people who were descended from noble ancestors.
A
oligarchy
B
citizens
C
tyrants
D
aristocracy
7) The mainland of Greece is a ____________________ that sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea.
A
peninsula
B
island
C
isthmus
D
archipelago
8) In Greek, the word for city-state was ____________________.
A
tyrant
B
polis
C
helot
D
barracks
9) The ____________________ were held every four years as a part of a festival to honor Zeus.
A
Mount Olympus
B
elections
C
democracy
D
Olympics
10) In an ____________________, people rule because of wealth or land ownership and not inherited social class.
A
oligarchy
B
monarchy
C
democracy
D
aristocracy
11) The Greek alphabet developed out of one that they picked up from the ____________________ between 900 BC and 800 BC.
A
Phoenicians
B
Romans
C
Macedonians
D
Myceneans
12) ____________________ is a government in which the citizens make political decisions.
A
democracy
B
monarchy
C
aristocracy
D
oligarchy
13) The Greeks created ____________________ to explain the creation of the world and of human beings.
A
myths
B
fables
C
epic poems
D
Olympics
14) To the Greeks, a ____________________ was a person with the right to take part in ruling the city-state.
A
tyrant
B
citizen
C
noble
D
monarch
15) The Greeks believed that the 12 major gods and goddesses lived on ____________________.
A
Mount Olympus
B
Phoenicians
C
Peloponnesus
D
isthmus
16) At age seven, Spartan boys moved into military houses called ____________________.
A
Mount Olympus
B
isthmus
C
Phoenicians
D
barracks
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