Ancient Greece – Quiz 4
Answer the following questions in your Social Studies notebooks.
1. Write down the name of one important invention made by Aristotle.
2. What did Polybius invent?
3. What was unusual about the way that Diogenes lived his life?
4. Why did Alexander the Great go to see Diogenes?
5. What great mathematical discovery is Archimedes famous for?
6. Write down two of Archimedes’ inventions.
7. How did Archimedes die?
8. Who defeated the Minoans?
9. According to Homer, what was the name of Helen of Sparta’s husband?
10. With whom did Helen later fall in love?
11. Who won the battle between Hector and Achilles?
12. Who were Helen’s parents?
13. What is The Odyssey about?
14. What weapon did Paris usually use?
15. How did Priam save himself from being killed by Hercules?
16. Who was Priam’s daughter and what great gift did she possess?
17. What made Achilles so difficult to defeat?
18. How was Achilles killed?
19. What did Agamemnon have to do so that his fleet of ships could get to Troy?
20. How did Odysseus try to avoid going to war against Troy?