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  • Q1

    What word best describes the land of the Greek peninsulas?

    desert

    rolling plains

    mountainous

    flat plateaus

    30s
  • Q2

    The ancient Greeks followed what type of religion?

    polytheistic

    animistic

    monotheistic

    nontheistic

    30s
  • Q3

    Who was not a Greek philosopher?

    Plato

    Aristotle

    Sophocles

    Socrates

    30s
  • Q4

    Poet who is credited with the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey

    Pericles

    Sophocles

    Aeschylus

    Homer

    30s
  • Q5

    According to the ancient Greeks, the gods and goddesses lived

    in Olympia

    in Turkey

    in Athens

    on Mount Olympus

    30s
  • Q6

    Which city-state had the world's first democracy?

    Athens

    Crete

    Troy

    Sparta

    30s
  • Q7

    What type of government is rule by a few of the most powerful people?

    democracy

    oligarchy

    bureaucracy

    theocracy

    30s
  • Q8

    A militaristic city-state where boys were trained from an early age to fight. 

    Athens

    Sparta

    Delphi

    Olympia

    30s
  • Q9

    Who was the leader of Athens after the defeat of the Persians who took Athens into its "Golden Age"?

    Pericles

    Homer

    Socrates

    Phidias

    30s
  • Q10

    In which land battle did the Athenians defeat the Persians due to their better weapons and better military strategies?

    Salamis

    Marathon

    Trojan

    Thermopylae

    30s
  • Q11

    Who won the Persian War?

    Romans

    Greeks

    Persians

    Hittites

    30s
  • Q12

    This building is a temple to which Greek god?

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    Poseidon

    Athena

    Zeus

    Apollo

    30s
  • Q13

    The war between Athens and Sparta was known as the

    Peloponnesian War

    Balkan War

    Persian War

    Trojan War

    30s
  • Q14

    Who was the student of Socrates and author of The Republic?

    Aristotle

    Plato

    Sophocles

    Pericles

    30s
  • Q15

    What type of government did Sparta have?

    oligarchy

    bureaucracy

    theocracy

    democracy

    30s

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