Quiz  /  Ancient Greece Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which Persian king did the Greeks defeat at the Battle of Marathon?

  • Xerxes
  • Reza Pahlavi
  • Darius
  • Cyrus

  • 2. 
    When was the first modern Olympiad held?

  • 1900
  • 1908
  • 1896
  • 1904

  • 3. 
    Who was Alexander the Great’s teacher?

  • Ptolemy
  • Archimedes
  • Aristotle
  • Plato

  • 4. 
    Who is the renowned chronicler of the Peloponnesian War?

  • Pliny
  • Thucydides
  • Xenophon
  • Herodotus

  • 5. 
    Alexander the Great was from:

  • Egypt
  • Macedonia
  • the United Kingdom
  • France

  • 6. 
    Which Greek city is often called the "birthplace of democracy"?

  • Sparta
  • Corinth
  • Delphi
  • Athens

  • 7. 
    How does history tell us Socrates died?

  • hanging
  • firing squad
  • poison
  • old age

  • 8. 
    Who was the enemy of Athens in the Peloponnesian War?

  • Sparta
  • Sicily
  • Syracuse
  • Sermione

  • 9. 
    Who won the Peloponnesian War?

  • Sicily
  • Athens
  • Corcyra
  • Sparta
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