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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 Translator of The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World
C Archeaologist. Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.
D First English translator of the Torah
Question #2
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
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 ‘House whose foundation creates terror’
C ‘Mud and water on land’
D ‘Where the sun shines always’
Question #5
A Enkindu
B The “Queen of the Night”
C Moses
D Akkadian
Question #6
A storm and rain god
B Goddess of the moon
C the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage
D a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water
Question #7
A The Robbins
B The Baskins
C The Assyrians
D The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks
Question #8
A goddess of the moon
B goddess of grain
C storm and rain god
D father of the gods, god of heaven
Question #9
A a storm and rain god
B the goddess of love, fertility and war; Queen of Heaven
C the goddess of the moon
D the goddess of grain
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 multiplication tables devised in Babylon.
C Statuettes from the Abu temple.
D Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.
Question #11
A Numbers
B The Epic of Gilgamesh
C Exodus
D Genesis
Question #12
A According to Fiero “no ziggurat remains in the 21st Century and scholars now believe they might never have existed.”
B The height of these structure, Fiero writes symbolizes “the sacred mountain linking the realms of heaven and earth.”
C it is often a large terraced tower of rubble and brick.
D they often contained steep exterior stairwells.
Question #13
A a seven-branched candelabrum
B a belief that singing should not take place during religious services
C A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another
D the belief in only one god
Question #14
A A ram’s horn, used as a trumpet, to call the faithful to prayer
B the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh
C a prayer cloth
D A harp from Ur
Question #15
A Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy
B create iron molds
C build ships
D guard the Assyrian aqueducts
Question #16
A A song/poem performed at the death of Mesoptamian royalty
B a chest or box containing the tablets of The Ten Commandments
C the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark
D The name of the boat the Hebrews took from Egypt back to Mesopotamia
Question #17
A The Book of the Dead
B The Code of Hammurabi
C The Epic of Gilgamesh
D THe Babylonian Creation
Question #18
A a painting on a cave wall in what is now Germany
B The first female leader in Ancient Greece
C Probably the most famous early artistic image of a human, a woman
D An early Greek sculpture
Question #19
A the first recorded laws
B a collection of songs, praise, thanksgiving, confession and supplication
C the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
D the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
Question #20
A The Epic of Gilgamesh
B The Code of Hammurabi
C The Babylonian Creation
D The Book of the Dead
Question #21
A Sumeria
B Abraham
C Jehovah
D Asseria
Question #22
A “home for the family of the dead.”
B “shrine and temple.”
C “site for cremation ceremony.”
D “platform for politcal speeches.”
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 Phoenicians
B the Chaldeans
C the Persians
D the Egyptians
Question #25
A The Tigris and the Euphrates
B The Caspian and the Antioch
C The Nile Delta and the Aegean
D The Nile and the Black Sea