NAME

5 Written questions
1. best-known writer of Greek comedies

2. located North of Greece

3. a commander in the army at 16 and king at 20

4. a time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world

5. what a person leaves behind when he/she dies

5 Matching questions
1.

philosophers

2.

Herodotus

a
philosophy taught that happiness was the goal of life, the way
to be happy was to seek out pleasure

b
3.

Pythagoras

4.

Aristotle

5.

Epicureanism

great thinkers that believed the mind could understand

everything

c
believed that all relationships in the world could be expressed
in numbers, developed many new ideas about mathematics

d
wrote the history of the Persian Wars, considered the "Father
of History"

e
wrote more than 200 books, opened school called Lyceum,
taught the "golden mean", helped advance science

5 Multiple choice questions

1. considered the greatest historian of the ancient world, wrote History of the Peloponnesian War
a. Euclid
b. Euripides
c. Archimedes
d. Thucydides

2. wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

a. comedy
b. fable
c. myth
d. Homer
3. famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era, worked on solid geometry
a. Sophists
b. Euripides
c. comedy
d. Archimedes
4. short tale that teaches a lesson
a. Plato
b. oracle
c. Homer
d. fable
5. astronomer claimed that the sun was the center of the universe and the Earth circled the sun
a. Aristophanes
b. Aristarchus
c. Stoicism
d. Aristotle

5 True/False questions
1. comedy wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

True False
2. Hippocrates Athenian sculptor, taught that absolute right and wrong existed

True False
3. tragedy story with a happy ending

True False
4. philosophy great thinkers that believed the mind could understand everything

True False
5. Stoicism philosophy that taught happiness came from following reason, not emotions, and doing your duty

True False