Practice test 2.1-2.5

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HISTORY

PRACTICE TEST 

CH 2:

Lesson 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5

1. Your phone is on airplane mode and in your bag.
2. Dictionary (E-NL) is allowed. NO google translate.
3. Besides a dictionary and chromebook, your desk is empty:  no notebook, no notes and.....no phone!
4. Only 1 tab is opened during the test. Use FULL SCREEN.
5. Finished? Hand in your work and CLOSE your chromebook.

read the rules before you start

Good Luck!

This test has: 

29 mc questions, 5 drag&drop questions, 11 open questions

Which answers are correct?
The geography of Greece caused the Greeks:

1. to become experienced soldiers
2. to grow enough food for themselves
3. to find other places to live too
4. to have close contacts with other Greek cities

What was a characteristic of a Greek polis?

1. It had the same laws as the other Greek poleis.
2. It was a city-state.
3. There was an absence of slaves.
4. It had open borders.

The Dark Ages in Greek history was the period:

1. in which the Greek civilisation was founded.
2. from which no written sources have been found.
3. in which no one lived in Greece.
4. in which terrible wars were fought.

In Ancient Greece, a citizen was:

1. a man or woman who was born in the polis.
2. a man who was allowed to own land.
3. a man who was born in the polis.
4. someone who was born in a different polis.

Study the source. It is a picture of slaves working
in a Greek silver mine. The picture is from the
5th century BC.

These slaves were most likely:

1. prisoners of war.
2. educated slaves.
3. metoiks
4. former free men who had a lot of debts.

Read the following statement:
Only the rich could be hoplites.

Which was one cause of this statement?

1. The phalanx took a lot of practice.
2. It was a great honour to fight in the army as a hoplite.
3. Hoplites were elected from the landowners
4. The phalanx was developed by the Spartans.

Which statement is FALSE?

1. In Ancient Greece, women had less rights than men
2. In some poleis, women had more rights than in others.
3. In most poleis, women were not allowed to own land or run a business.
4. In Athens, women were allowed to own land and run a business.

Who was welcome to attend the ecclesia in Athens?

1. women
2. rich men
3. metoiks
4. slaves

Ostracism was used:

1. to make sure that people could go to a magistrate and ask for a solution to their problems.
2. to prevent people from gaining too much power in Athens.
3. to sue a politician if he had done a bad job.
4. to be able to wage war against other Greek city-states.

If someone wanted to be part of the government of Athens, he would be asked: ‘Who and what is your father? Who is your mother and who is her father? What is his deme (place you live)?’ Then they would ask the candidate whether he has family graves and where they were located. Finally he was asked whether he had paid his taxes.

Which answers are correct? They asked these questions:

1. to see if the man is a good citizen.
2. to make sure the man is an Athenian.
3. to make sure that only the best candidates are elected.
4. to make sure that the man rich enough to get a political function

Which answer is correct?
Athenians did not have the same democratic system as we have nowadays because:

1. we have an indirect democracy while the Athenians had a direct democracy.
2. there were no elections in in the Athenian democracy, only allotments
3. they could only elect people for the government of the city-state.
4. the athenians elected a king while we elect a parliament

A quote from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
‘Attendance at the assembly was not always voluntary. In the 5th century, public slaves forming a cordon with a red-stained rope herded citizens from the agora into the assembly meeting place (Pnyx), with a fine being imposed on those who got the red on their clothes.’

Though Athens had a democracy not everybody was involved in politics. The source above shows that people:

1. were openly blamed for not being involved in politics.
2. were fined if they showed up too late for meetings.
3. had to be caught and be brought to the Pnyx
4. tried to attend the public meeting.

This story is an example of:

1. a children’s bedtime story told by Greek parents.
2. a Greek myth that was told by priests to entertain the people.
3. a legend concerning the way in which the Greek world came to be.
4. a myth that should teach people something.

Which Greek scholars thought about maths and medicine?

1. Archimedes and Pythagoras
2. Eratosthenes and Pythagoras
3. Hippocrates and Euripides
4. Pythagoras and Hippocrates

The fact that Athenian citizens could disagree with
philosophers shows that:

1. citizens of Athens were not highly educated.
2. philosophers were seen as people who did not contribute to the polis.
3. there were great divisions between the Greeks in the poleis.
4. Athenian citizens could form their own opinion on subjects that mattered to them.

Study the source. It is a
panoramic view of the
theatre of Epidaurus.
This sources shows that:

1. there was a large settlement nearby, whose people could attend a play.
2. Greek architects used a mountain site for a theatre.
3. visitors could not see the stage very well if they were seated in the middle rows.
4. women could only be actors in a tragedy, not a comedy

Look at the Greek temple in the picture.
Which building style is used?

1. Doric style
2. Ionian style
3. Hellenistic style
4. Corinthian style

What did a polis NOT have?

1. its own government
2. its own army
3. its own coins
4. its own language

How much of Greek life was influenced by the gods, according to them?

1. they only interfered in wars, like the Trojan War
2. the gods influenced every part of daily life
3. the gods did not influence daily life at all
4. how much the gods influenced daily life depended on the offerings

Which similarity between a monarchy and a tyranny is correct?

1. A small group of people is in charge.
2. The boss of a tyranny is also called a monarch
3. The leaders are very violent.
4. One person rules over all.

According to the source, why did Xerxes I
start a war against the Greeks?
Write two reasons down.

Write down the correct key word

artificial way to spread water across farmland to make it fertile

Write down the correct key word

all stories of the gods and demi-gods together

Write down the correct key word

set of rights and obligations between
a country and its people

Write down the correct key word

mounted troops (soldiers on horses).

Look at the pictures of 3 battles of the Persian Wars. Then drag the names and dates to the correct picture

Thermopylae

Salamis

Marathon

492 BC

480 BC

479 BC

Put the events in the correct chronological order

the oldest to the top, the youngest to the bottom

start of democracy in Athens

Romans conquer 

Greece

first Olympic Games

Alexander the Great conquers Persia

Battle of Marathon

disuniting factors

uniting factors

Was ancient Greece a united or a disunited country?

It had elements of both.

Drag the elements to the correct place.

they spoke the same language

they lived in poleis

poleis often fought each other

they worshipped the same gods

poleis had their own armies and laws 

poleis fought together against a foreign enemy

congratulations