Ch 5 Vocabulary Test 8th World History

1. - Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey during the 700’s B.C.

A) Aesop
B) Homer
C) Sophocles
D) Myth
E) Euripides

2. - A greek slave that created famous fables

A) Sophocles
B) Homer
C) Euripides
D) Myth
E) Aesop

3. - ⅓ best well known writers of greek tragedies wrote Oedipus Rex and Antigone

A) Aesop
B) Euripides
C) Sophocles
D) Homer
E) Myth

4. - ⅓ best well known writers of greek tragedies who used more down to earth characters instead of just gods and heros as his contemporaries did.

A) Myth
B) Homer
C) Euripides
D) Aesop
E) Sophocles

5. - Traditional stories about gods and heroes

A) Euripides
B) Sophocles
C) Myth
D) Aesop
E) Homer

6. - People would go here to find out about the future

A) Epic
B) Oracle
C) Fable
D) Tragedy
E) Drama

7. - Long poems that told about heroic deeds

A) Oracle
B) Fable
C) Tragedy
D) Epic
E) Drama

8. - Short tale that teaches a lesson

A) Tragedy
B) Fable
C) Epic
D) Oracle
E) Drama

9. - Story told by actors who pretend to be in the story

A) Tragedy
B) Fable
C) Oracle
D) Drama
E) Epic

10. - A person who struggles to overcome difficulties but fails

A) Fable
B) Tragedy
C) Oracle
D) Drama
E) Epic

11. - The story ends happily

A) Socrates
B) Pythagoras
C) Aristotle
D) Plato
E) Comedy

12. - A Greek philosopher (he developed many ideas in mathematics)

A) Aristotle
B) Comedy
C) Plato
D) Pythagoras
E) Socrates

13. - A critic of the Sophists ( a Greek philosopher)

A) Aristotle
B) Pythagoras
C) Comedy
D) Plato
E) Socrates

14. - A student of Socrates

A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Socrates
D) Pythagoras
E) Comedy

15. - Plato’s best student

A) Aristotle
B) Comedy
C) Plato
D) Pythagoras
E) Socrates

16. - Wrote the history of the Persian Wars

A) Sophist
B) Philosopher
C) Philosophy
D) Thucydides
E) Herodotus

17. - Many historians consider him as the greatest historian of the ancient world

A) Sophist
B) Herodotus
C) Thucydides
D) Philosopher
E) Philosophy

18. - Comes from the greek word for “love of wisdom”

A) Thucydides
B) Sophist
C) Herodotus
D) Philosophy
E) Philosopher

19. - Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything

A) Herodotus
B) Philosopher
C) Sophist
D) Philosophy
E) Thucydides

20. - Professional teachers in ancient Greece

A) Philosopher
B) Thucydides
C) Herodotus
D) Sophist
E) Philosophy

21. - Rose to the throne in Macedonia in 359 B.C.

A) Legacy
B) Hellenistic Era
C) Theocritus
D) Alexander the Great
E) Philip ll

22. A military leader; he helped Greek and Macedonian rule over a vast area

A) Hellenistic Era
B) Alexander the Great
C) Legacy
D) Philip ll
E) Theocritus

23. - What a person leaves behind when he or she dies

A) Legacy
B) Hellenistic Era
C) Alexander the Great
D) Theocritus
E) Philip ll

24. - Comes from the Greek word meaning “like the Greeks” (refers back to a time when Greek language and ideas spread to non-Greeks in southwest Asia

A) Alexander the Great
B) Hellenistic Era
C) Theocritus
D) Philip ll
E) Legacy

25. - A poet who wrote short poems about the beauty of nature

A) Alexander the Great
B) Philip ll
C) Theocritus
D) Legacy
E) Hellenistic Era

26. - An astronomer from Samos

A) Eratosthenes
B) Aristarchus
C) Epicureanism
D) Archimedes
E) Euclid

27. - An astronomer who was in charge of the library of Alexandria

A) Eratosthenes
B) Epicureanism
C) Archimedes
D) Aristarchus
E) Euclid

28. - Most famous Greek mathematician

A) Euclid
B) Epicureanism
C) Aristarchus
D) Archimedes
E) Eratosthenes

29. - Most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era

A) Eratosthenes
B) Aristarchus
C) Euclid
D) Archimedes
E) Epicureanism

30. - Epicurus founded a philosophy that taught that happiness was the goal to life

A) Eratosthenes
B) Epicureanism
C) Aristarchus
D) Archimedes
E) Euclid

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