Voting, Stages and Doubts: teacher key

Ancient Greece, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. Look closer at how Athens ran its democracy, how Sparta ran itself and how the Greeks staged plays and tested ideas.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. How were many Athenian officials chosen?
   • By a footrace
   • By lottery (answer)
   • By their wealth only
2. What did ostracism let Athenians do?
   • Choose a king
   • Open a school
   • Vote to send a citizen away for 10 years (answer)
3. What did the Spartans depend on the helots to do?
   • Farming and daily work (answer)
   • Writing plays
   • Building ships
4. How many plays by Sophocles survive?
   • 120
   • One
   • Seven (answer)
5. Why did Aristarchus's model get rejected?
   • It had no numbers
   • It challenged the accepted view of the universe (answer)
   • It was never written
6. What does laconic mean?
   • Pithy and concise (answer)
   • Loud
   • Careless

Words

• ostracism: vote to expel
• helots: enslaved farmers
• satire: mocking humor
• laconic: using few words
• forms: ideal patterns