Direction:

Each of the following questions has 4 choices. First, go through the questions. Next, read the fact sheet, "Atlantis - Fact, Fiction, or Exaggeration."  Then, choose one item that best answers each question. Finally write the answer in the answer box.

  1. Which philosopher recorded the legend of Atlantis in his writings? 

    2. A) Plato     B) Timaeus     C) Aristotle     D) Socrates 
     
  2. People who consider story of Atlantis a fiction suggest that the story is used to ___  Socrates. 

    3. A) inform     B) entertain     C) persuade     D) humiliate 
     
  3. The word "catastrophic" perhaps means ___.

    4. A) happy     B) destructive     C) luck     D) painful 
     
  4. Where was the Minon civilization? 

    5. A) Spain     B) Asia     C) Russia     D) Crete 
     
  5. Who was Plato's teacher? 

    6. A) Socrates     B) Aristotle     C) Hermocrates     D) Dante 
     
  6. We know that two of Plato's dialogues "hold the only known original references to Atlantis." What are they? 

    7. A) Timaeus and Solon                B) Solon and the Republic 
    C) Critias and Hermocrates       D) Timaeus and Critas 
     
  7. The dialogues telling the story of Atlantis are conversations between all of the following people EXCEPT ___.

    8. A) Socrates     B) Plato     C) Timaeus     D) Hermocrates 
     
  8. The tale of Atlantis is about the conflict between two distant times of ___.

    9. A) Egyptians     B) Athenians     C) Greeks     D) Romans 
     
  9. Who told the story of Atlantis to Solon? 

    10. A) Plato    B) Socrates    C) Egyptian priests    D) Critas' great-grand father 
     
  10. All of the following characters participating or mentioned in the dialogues about Atlantis are known to have actually existed in ancient Greece EXCEPT ___.

    11. A) Timaeus     B) Critas     C) Socrates     D) Solon