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Ancient Greece Vocabulary Quiz
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  • 1. A city that is also an independent nation.
A) union
B) Poli/Polis or city-state
C) country
D) state
  • 2. Government ruled by the people instead of a king.
A) oligarchy
B) monarchy
C) patriarchy
D) democracy
  • 3. A government ruled by a small group of people.
A) democracy
B) teacher
C) monarchy
D) oligarchy
  • 4. Individual, powerful ruler of a country who is not a lawful king.
A) Hagar the Great
B) tyrant
C) ruler
D) terror
  • 5. The methods and plans a government uses to do its work.
A) rules
B) policy
C) legislature
  • 6. The main marketplace in a Greek city.
A) agora
B) Target
C) shopping mall
  • 7. The highest part of a city; often the site for a temple.
A) sky
B) acropolis
C) metropolitan
  • 8. A temple to Athena located on the Acropolis.
A) Parthenon
B) Egyptian
C) Zeus
D) Mount Olympus
  • 9. The combined military forces of several poli.
A) legit
B) Army
C) league
D) Navy
  • 10. Two epic poems written by Homer.
A) The Gods and The Goddesses
B) The Rules and Rulers
C) The Illiad and the Odyssey
D) The Triad and the Metropolis
  • 11. To blockade a walled city.
A) corrupt
B) subterfuge
C) siege
D) attack
  • 12. The first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet
A) A and B
B) Alpha and Omega
C) & and @
  • 13. A decorated horizontal band that runs above doorways and windows.
A) fresco
B) rope
C) painting
D) frieze
  • 14. A long poem about great heroes and their adventures.
A) story time
B) epic
C) adventure
D) book
  • 15. Nine sisters who were the goddesses of inspiration, learning and the arts.
A) musters
B) siblings
C) muses
D) Medusa
  • 16. A priestess who speaks for the Gods.
A) Cleopatra
B) muse
C) oracle
D) Pharaoh
  • 17. Government by divine guidance, it comes from the Greek word theo which means god.
A) democracy
B) oligarchy
C) theocracy
D) monarchy
  • 18. Government by one (mono means one); a king or emporer.
A) priest
B) monarchy
C) oligarchy
D) democracy
  • 19. A male citizen of ancient Athens.
A) slave
B) immortal
C) helot
D) freeman
  • 20. The father of philosphy.
A) Plato
B) Socrates
C) Aristotle
D) Alexander the Great
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