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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 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
B contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God
C a ritual for public worship
D a state achieved militarily by the unification of territories under a single sovereign power
Question #3
A He was two-thirds god and one-third man
B The was two-thirds god and one-third lion
C He was two-thirds adult and one-third child
D He had the head of a human and the body of a lion
Question #4
A ‘Place of love and gods’
B ‘Mud and water on land’
C ‘Where the sun shines always’
D ‘House whose foundation creates terror’
Question #5
A Akkadian
B Moses
C Enkindu
D The “Queen of the Night”
Question #6
A Goddess of the moon
B the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage
C storm and rain god
D a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water
Question #7
A The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks
B The Assyrians
C The Baskins
D The Robbins
Question #8
A father of the gods, god of heaven
B goddess of the moon
C storm and rain god
D goddess of grain
Question #9
A the goddess of love, fertility and war; Queen of Heaven
B the goddess of grain
C a storm and rain god
D the goddess of the moon
Question #10
A Statuettes from the Abu temple.
B Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.
C A double-sided wooden panel executed in shell, mother-of-pearl and lapis lazuli. It appears to commemorate a Sumerian victory.
D multiplication tables devised in Babylon.
Question #11
A Numbers
B Exodus
C The Epic of Gilgamesh
D Genesis
Question #12
A it is often a large terraced tower of rubble and brick.
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 they often contained steep exterior stairwells.
Question #13
A A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another
B a seven-branched candelabrum
C a belief that singing should not take place during religious services
D the belief in only one god
Question #14
A a prayer cloth
B A ram’s horn, used as a trumpet, to call the faithful to prayer
C the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh
D A harp from Ur
Question #15
A create iron molds
B Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy
C guard the Assyrian aqueducts
D build ships
Question #16
A The name of the boat the Hebrews took from Egypt back to Mesopotamia
B A song/poem performed at the death of Mesoptamian royalty
C the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark
D a chest or box containing the tablets of The Ten Commandments
Question #17
A The Book of the Dead
B THe Babylonian Creation
C The Epic of Gilgamesh
D The Code of Hammurabi
Question #18
A The first female leader in Ancient Greece
B a painting on a cave wall in what is now Germany
C An early Greek sculpture
D Probably the most famous early artistic image of a human, a woman
Question #19
A the first recorded laws
B the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
C a collection of songs, praise, thanksgiving, confession and supplication
D the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
Question #20
A The Epic of Gilgamesh
B The Babylonian Creation
C The Code of Hammurabi
D The Book of the Dead
Question #21
A Sumeria
B Asseria
C Abraham
D Jehovah
Question #22
A “home for the family of the dead.”
B “shrine and temple.”
C “platform for politcal speeches.”
D “site for cremation ceremony.”
Question #23
A “created by God, but left in the hands of humans.”
B “a combination of fate, free-will and destiny.”
C “peaceful, but becomes chaotic because of greed and war.”
D “systematically planned and invested with a preconceived moral order.”
Question #24
A the Chaldeans
B the Persians
C the Phoenicians
D the Egyptians
Question #25
A The Nile Delta and the Aegean
B The Tigris and the Euphrates
C The Nile and the Black Sea
D The Caspian and the Antioch