The Culture Of Ancient Greece

Question 1

traditional stories about gods and heroes

Answer 1

Myth

Question 2

The Greeks believe in this

Answer 2

Many gods and goddesses affected people’s lives and shaped events. The gods and goddesses also controlled nature

Question 3

This is the chief god

Answer 3

Zeus

Question 4

This is where the twelve most important gods lived

Answer 4

Mount Olympus

Question 5

This is the afterlife

Answer 5

This is a gloomy world ruled by hades when people died

Question 6

This is a prediction about the future

Answer 6

Prophecy

Question 7

This is how people find out the future

Answer 7

The visit the oracle

Question 8

The most famous oracle

Answer 8

At the temple of Apollo at Delphi

Question 9

How did gods act like human beings?

Answer 9

They married, had children, quarreled, played tricks on each other, and fought wars

Question 10

How did oracles often give answers?

Answer 10

In riddles

Question 11

These are long poems told about heroic deeds

Answer 11

Epics

Question 12

A person that wrote epics during 700 bc

Answer 12

Homer

Question 13

This is what homers stories promoted

Answer 13

Courage and honor

Question 14

In 550 bc, a slave named________made up famous fables

Answer 14

Aesop

Question 15

This is a short tale that teaches a lesson

Answer 15

Fable

Question 16

This is a story told by actors who pretend to be characters in a story

Answer 16

Drama

Question 17

These are two types of dramas

Answer 17

Comedy and tragedy

Question 18

A drama when a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails

Answer 18

Tragedy

Question 19

This is a drama when the story ends happily

Answer 19

Comedy

Question 20

These are the three best known Greek tragedies

Answer 20

Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides