Lesson Quiz 4-1: The Ancient Greeks

The poet who wrote the Iliad was named ____

• Homer

• Virgil

• Sophocles

• Euripides

The ancient Greeks strove for a kind of ____ that they called arete.

• excellence

• wealth

• power

• fame

The Iliad and the Odyssey are examples of ____.

• epic poems

• novels

• short stories

• plays

During the eighth century B.C., the Greeks adopted a new system of writing based on the ____.

• Phoenician alphabet

• Latin alphabet

• Cyrillic script

• Hieroglyphics

About 80 percent of the geography of Greece is ____.

• mountains

• plains

• deserts

• lakes

Greek history was influenced by Greece's

• rivers and deltas

• mountains and seacoast

• deserts and plains

• glaciers and forests

The teachings of Homer promoted

• the Phoenician alphabet.

• agriculture and trade.

• sailing and warfare.

• the values of courage, honor, and excellence.

During the Dark Age, some Greeks settled

• in Crete.

• on the Indian subcontinent.

• in Ionia, part of Asia Minor.

• in Mycenae.

Two major groups that settled within Greece itself were the

• Aeolians and Dorians

• Agamemnons and Homers

• Mycenaeans and Minoans

• Spartans and the Trojans

DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item with the correct statement below. 1. people captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs

• acropolis

• fortified area on a hilltop

• ephors

• heavily armed foot soldiers

• hoplites

• elected members of Sparta's oligarchy

• Solon

• Athenian reformer who came to power in 594 B.C.

• helots

• people captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs