Greek Life and Literature Quiz

1. The Frogs, The Wasps, and The Clouds were all written by

Socrates
Menander
Thucydides
Aristophanes

2. The first Olympic Games were held in what year?

1200 BCE
776 BCE
470 BCE
330 BCE

3. A metic was a

slave skilled in a trade.
resident foreigner lacking political rights.
an unskilled slave.
a merchant.

4. Which is not a recognized Greek architectural style?

Spartan
Ionic
Corinthian
Doric

5. The Parthenon was dedicated to which deity?

Athena
Hera
Zeus
Ares

6. Winners at the Olympic games were rewarded with garlands made of

parsley leaves
wild olive leaves
laurel leaves
pine needles

7. The terms Euboean and Aeginetan refer to

architectural styles
pottery
rhetorical styles
coinage standards

8. One could read about the building of the Egyptian pyramids in the works of

Herodotus
Thucydides
Plato
Xenophon

9. In the Odyssey, Laertes is

the son of Odysseus
the father of Odysseus
the dog of Odysseus
the faithful shepherd of Odysseus

10. Which of the following was a common Greek coin?

sestertius
chiton
drachma
aes