Ancient Greece End of Topic Test

Year 5 HistoryAncient Greece16 pages

About this worksheet

A 16-question end of topic assessment on Ancient Greece for Year 5, planned to take 30 to 45 minutes. It opens with a timeline from 776 BC to 336 BC and moves through city-states, Athens and Sparta, the gods, pottery as evidence, column styles, hoplites, the Battle of Marathon and Alexander the Great. Question 14 asks pupils to judge an extract from Homer's Iliad as a source. The last question asks how far pupils agree that democracy was the greatest Greek legacy. Pages 14 to 16 hold the mark scheme, with model points for every written answer. It is written for the Ancient Greece study in the England National Curriculum for KS2 history.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Ancient Greece

โ€œA study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western worldโ€

The whole test. Questions 4 to 8 cover Greek life, questions 10, 13 and 15 cover achievements, and question 16 asks about influence on Britain today.

What's inside this worksheet

Section A: Chronology, Geography and Key Vocabulary

Pupils name the events at 776 BC and 336 BC on a timeline, answer two multiple-choice questions on city-states and the word polis, match Agora, Acropolis, Parthenon and Theatre to definitions, and fill four gaps with democracy, oligarchy, philosophy and tunic.

Section B: City-States, Daily Life and Beliefs

A tick table sorts four statements into Athens or Sparta, such as the agoge and the Pnyx. Pupils tick the three groups who could not vote, name four gods, give two reasons painted pots are useful evidence and label Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns.

Section C: Conflict, Empire and Historical Enquiry

Written answers on a hoplite's armour and the phalanx, why Sparta missed Marathon, the story of Pheidippides, two effects of Alexander's conquests, and two reasons to be careful with The Iliad as evidence.

Section D: Extended Response and Synthesis

Pupils give one similarity and two differences between the ancient and modern Olympics. They then write a longer answer on whether democracy was the greatest Greek legacy, with links to how Britain is governed.

Answers

Short answers for questions 1 to 10 and marking points for the rest, including the Carneia festival for question 12a and the 26-mile run for 12b.

How teachers use it

Split over two lessons

Sections A and B are mostly tick boxes and short answers. Save Sections C and D, which are all written answers, for the next lesson.

Practise the long answer

Before the test, model a 'how far do you agree' answer on a different statement, so pupils know question 16 needs a judgement at the end.

Mark in pairs

Pupils can mark questions 1 to 8 for each other from the answer pages. You then only need to mark the written questions yourself.

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