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What is a Peninsula?
a) Land with water all the way around it.
b) Water with land on three sides.
c) Water with land all the way around it.
d) Land with water on three sides.
How is power passed down in a Monarch?
a) The Richest people rule.
b) From generation to generation
c) Elections.
d) The meanest person takes over.
Which type of government usually has power taken by force?
a) Democracy
b) Monarchy
c) Oligarchy
d) Tyrant
What is the name of the gathering place, market place in ancient Greece?
a) Agora
b) Acropolis
c) Parthenon
d) Peninsula
What is the name of a Greek soldier?
a) Hoplite
b) Helot
c) Trireme
d) Epics
Who was the Persian leader who attacked the Greeks at Marathon?
a) Xerxes I
b) Leonidus
c) Darius I
d) Thales
The Parthenon was built to honor which Greek god?
a) Hera
b) Athena
c) Zeus
d) Hades
What do we call a short story that is meant to teach a lesson?
a) Fable
b) Epic
c) Poem
d) Novel
Which type of Greek play told a humorous story?
a) Tragedy
b) Love story
c) Drama
d) Comedy
Which word meant city to the Greeks?
a) Polis
b) State
c) Province
d) village
Who is the Greek god of the sea?
a) Zeus
b) Posiden
c) Hera
d) Hades
Which Greek is known as the father of history?
a) Pythagoras
b) Herodotus
c) Aristotle
d) Plato
Which of the following is not one of the name for Greek columns?
a) Corinthian
b) Ionic
c) Doric
d) Informal
Who is the Greek god of love and beauty?
a) Aphrodite
b) Hera
c) Cupid
d) Artemis
What is the type of government in which a group of wealthy older people rule?
a) Democracy
b) Monarch
c) Tyrant
d) Oligarchy
Which government has leaders elected to rule?
a) Democracy
b) Oligarchy
c) Monarch
d) Tyrant
Who is the Greek god of the hunt and wild animals?
a) Apollo
b) Aphrodite
c) Athena
d) Artemis
What is the name for the Greek warships?
a) Battleships
b) Hoplite
c) Trireme
d) Destroyer
Who was the Persian leader that fought the Spartans in the battle of Thermopylae?
a) Xerxes I
b) Darius I
c) Hippocrates
d) Leonidas
What is name of the long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero?
a) Fable
b) Epics
c) Tragedy
d) Comedy
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