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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
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.
Question #2
A contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God
B a ritual for public worship
C a state achieved militarily by the unification of territories under a single sovereign power
D 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
Question #3
A He had the head of a human and the body of a lion
B The was two-thirds god and one-third lion
C He was two-thirds adult and one-third child
D He was two-thirds god and one-third man
Question #4
A ‘House whose foundation creates terror’
B ‘Place of love and gods’
C ‘Where the sun shines always’
D ‘Mud and water on land’
Question #5
A Moses
B The “Queen of the Night”
C Enkindu
D Akkadian
Question #6
A a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water
B Goddess of the moon
C storm and rain god
D the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage
Question #7
A The Robbins
B The Assyrians
C The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks
D The Baskins
Question #8
A goddess of grain
B father of the gods, god of heaven
C goddess of the moon
D storm and rain god
Question #9
A a storm and rain god
B the goddess of grain
C the goddess of the moon
D the goddess of love, fertility and war; Queen of Heaven
Question #10
A A double-sided wooden panel executed in shell, mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli. It appears to commemorate a Sumerian victory.
B Statuettes from the Abu temple.
C multiplication tables devised in Babylon.
D Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.
Question #11
A Genesis
B Exodus
C Numbers
D The Epic of Gilgamesh
Question #12
A they often contained steep exterior stairwells.
B According to Fiero “no ziggurat remains in the 21st Century and scholars now believe they might never have existed.”
C The height of these structure, Fiero writes symbolizes “the sacred mountain linking the realms of heaven and earth.”
D it is often a large terraced tower of rubble and brick.
Question #13
A the belief in only one god
B a seven-branched candelabrum
C A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another
D a belief that singing should not take place during religious services
Question #14
A A harp from Ur
B a prayer cloth
C the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh
D A ram’s horn, used as a trumpet, to call the faithful to prayer
Question #15
A guard the Assyrian aqueducts
B build ships
C Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy
D create iron molds
Question #16
A the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark
B a chest or box containing the tablets of The Ten Commandments
C The name of the boat the Hebrews took from Egypt back to Mesopotamia
D A song/poem performed at the death of Mesoptamian royalty
Question #17
A The Code of Hammurabi
B The Book of the Dead
C The Epic of Gilgamesh
D THe Babylonian Creation
Question #18
A The first female leader in Ancient Greece
B An early Greek sculpture
C Probably the most famous early artistic image of a human, a woman
D a painting on a cave wall in what is now Germany
Question #19
A the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
B the first recorded laws
C the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
D a collection of songs, praise, thanksgiving, confession and supplication
Question #20
A The Code of Hammurabi
B The Epic of Gilgamesh
C The Book of the Dead
D The Babylonian Creation
Question #21
A Jehovah
B Abraham
C Sumeria
D Asseria
Question #22
A “shrine and temple.”
B “home for the family of the dead.”
C “platform for politcal speeches.”
D “site for cremation ceremony.”
Question #23
A “created by God, but left in the hands of humans.”
B “systematically planned and invested with a preconceived moral order.”
C “peaceful, but becomes chaotic because of greed and war.”
D “a combination of fate, free-will and destiny.”
Question #24
A the Egyptians
B the Phoenicians
C the Chaldeans
D the Persians
Question #25
A The Nile and the Black Sea
B The Nile Delta and the Aegean
C The Caspian and the Antioch
D The Tigris and the Euphrates