Test 2

A  Bought the Standard of Ur at auction for 12,500,000 in 2002.

B  First English translator of the Torah

C  Translator of The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World

D  Archeaologist.  Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.

A  a ritual for public worship

B  an upright stone or slab with an inscribed or sculptured surface, used as a monument or as a commemorative tablet in the face of a building

C  contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God

D  a state achieved militarily by the unification of territories under a single sovereign power

A  He was two-thirds adult and one-third child

B  He was two-thirds god and one-third man

C  He had the head of a human and the body of a lion

D  The was two-thirds god and one-third lion

A  ‘Mud and water on land’

B  ‘House whose foundation creates terror’

C  ‘Where the sun shines always’

D  ‘Place of love and gods’

A  Akkadian

B  Enkindu

C  Moses

D  The “Queen of the Night”

A  storm and rain god

B  a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water

C  Goddess of the moon

D  the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage

A  The Robbins

B  The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks

C  The Assyrians

D  The Baskins

A  storm and rain god

B  goddess of the moon

C  goddess of grain

D  father of the gods, god of heaven

A  the goddess of grain

B  the goddess of the moon

C  the goddess of love, fertility and war; Queen of Heaven

D  a storm and rain god

A  Statuettes from the Abu temple.

B  Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.

C  multiplication tables devised in Babylon.

D  A double-sided wooden panel executed in shell, mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli.  It appears to commemorate a Sumerian victory.

A  The Epic of Gilgamesh

B  Genesis

C  Numbers

D  Exodus

A  they often contained steep exterior stairwells.

B  it is often a large terraced tower of rubble and brick.

C  According to Fiero “no ziggurat remains in the 21st Century and scholars now believe they might never have existed.”

D  The height of these structure, Fiero writes symbolizes “the sacred mountain linking the realms of heaven and earth.”

A  a seven-branched candelabrum

B  A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another

C  a belief that singing should not take place during religious services

D  the belief in only one god

A  a prayer cloth

B  A harp from Ur

C  the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh

D  A ram’s horn, used as a trumpet, to call the faithful to prayer

A  build ships

B  guard the Assyrian aqueducts

C  Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy

D  create iron molds

A  The name of the boat the Hebrews took from Egypt back to Mesopotamia

B  a chest or box containing the tablets of The Ten Commandments

C  A song/poem performed at the death of Mesoptamian royalty

D  the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark

A  The Code of Hammurabi

B  The Epic of Gilgamesh

C  THe Babylonian Creation

D  The Book of the Dead

A  Probably the most famous early artistic image of a human, a woman

B  a painting on a cave wall in what is now Germany

C  The first female leader in Ancient Greece

D  An early Greek sculpture

A  the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

B  a collection of songs, praise, thanksgiving, confession and supplication

C  the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth

D  the first recorded laws

A  The Book of the Dead

B  The Babylonian Creation

C  The Code of Hammurabi

D  The Epic of Gilgamesh

A  Jehovah

B  Abraham

C  Sumeria

D  Asseria

A  “site for cremation ceremony.”

B  “platform for politcal speeches.”

C  “shrine and temple.”

D  “home for the family of the dead.”

A  “created by God, but left in the hands of humans.”

B  “peaceful, but becomes chaotic because of greed and war.”

C  “a combination of fate, free-will and destiny.”

D  “systematically planned and invested with a preconceived moral order.”

A  the Phoenicians

B  the Persians

C  the Egyptians

D  the Chaldeans

A  The Nile and the Black Sea

B  The Nile Delta and the Aegean

C  The Tigris and the Euphrates

D  The Caspian and the Antioch