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Ancient Greek History Quiz

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1. Socrates had a great influence on

A Pericles.
B Plato.
C Homer.
D Euripides.

2. The Peloponnesian War was between Athens and

A Sparta.
B Venice.
C Persia.
D Troy.

3. Herodotus was known as the

A Champion of Athens.
B Sculptor of the statue of Apollo.

C General of Marathon.
D Father of History.

4. The battle of Marathon was between the Greeks and the

A Trojans.
B Persians.
C Egyptians.
D Romans.

5. Cleisthenes introduced Democracy to

A Sparta.
B Thracia.
C Athens.
D Olympia.

6. Who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey?

A Aeschylus
B Homer
C Apollodorus
D Zeus

7. Sophocles wrote

A Media.
B Orestes.
C Philoctetes.
D Heracles.

8. The time Pericles ruled was known as the

A Age of Glory.
B Age of Pericles.
C Age of Freedom.
D Age of Reason.

9. Thucydides attributed the Peloponnesian War to

A the meddling of the gods.
B human nature and greed.
C the attack by Pelopon.
D Persia.

10. Xenophon was an historian, but also a

A slave.
B doctor.
C sculptor.
D general.


11. Sophocles defeated Aeschylus when he was only

A 50 years old.
B 18 years old.
C 28 years old.
D 30 years old.

12. Sophocles is considered the greatest of the Greek

A generals.
B tragedians.
C comics.
D sculptors.

13. Aesop was killed by

A the priests of Apollo.
B the Persians.
C the Egyptians.
D plague.

14. Hippocrates is best known for

A sculpture.
B politics.
C medical ethics.
D building the Temple of Zeus.

15. Ictinus prepared a design for the

A Temple of Anacreon.
B plays of Sophocles.
C Statue of Zeus.
D Hall of the Mysteries.

16. Many believed that Phidias alone had seen the exact images of

A the temples.
B the politicians.
C the Gods.
D the future.

17. Phidias is most known for his three monuments to

A Athena.
B Zeus.
C Heracles.
D Pericles.

18. What statue by Phidias was known as one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World?

A Athena.
B Heracles.
C Zeus.
D Apollo.

19. Aristotle was tutor to the young

A Pythagoras.
B Pericles.
C Alexander the Great.
D Cleisthenes
.

20. Plato's works were written in

A Samos.
B dialogue.
C verse.
D secret.




 

 

 



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