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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Translator of The Humanistic Tradition: Prehistory to the Early Modern World
B First English translator of the Torah
C Bought the Standard of Ur at auction for 12,500,000 in 2002.
D Archeaologist. Ziggurat excavator circa 1920’s.
Question #2
A contract; the bond between the Hebrew people and their God
B a state achieved militarily by the unification of territories under a single sovereign power
C a ritual for public worship
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 was two-thirds adult and one-third child
B He was two-thirds god and one-third man
C The was two-thirds god and one-third lion
D He had the head of a human and the body of a lion
Question #4
A ‘House whose foundation creates terror’
B ‘Place of love and gods’
C ‘Mud and water on land’
D ‘Where the sun shines always’
Question #5
A The “Queen of the Night”
B Akkadian
C Moses
D Enkindu
Question #6
A the name for the Lydian’s standard coinage
B a carving system, incorporating sharp rock and flowing water
C storm and rain god
D Goddess of the moon
Question #7
A The Baskins
B The Assyrians
C The Robbins
D The 3rd century b.c.e. Greeks
Question #8
A father of the gods, god of heaven
B storm and rain god
C goddess of the moon
D goddess of grain
Question #9
A the goddess of the moon
B the goddess of grain
C a storm and rain god
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 multiplication tables devised in Babylon.
C Strict Asseryian laws that predate the Code of Hammurabi.
D Statuettes from the Abu temple.
Question #11
A Genesis
B Numbers
C Exodus
D The Epic of Gilgamesh
Question #12
A According to Fiero “no ziggurat remains in the 21st Century and scholars now believe they might never have existed.”
B they often contained steep exterior stairwells.
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 A type of music in which two or more groups of voices or instruments alternate with one another
B a belief that singing should not take place during religious services
C a seven-branched candelabrum
D the belief in only one god
Question #14
A A harp from Ur
B A ram’s horn, used as a trumpet, to call the faithful to prayer
C a prayer cloth
D the clay tablets containing the Epic of Gilgamesh
Question #15
A Chant biblical passages as part of the Hebew liturgy
B create iron molds
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 chest or box containing the tablets of The Ten Commandments
C the Biblical name for Noah’s Ark
D A song/poem performed at the death of Mesoptamian royalty
Question #17
A The Book of the Dead
B The Code of Hammurabi
C THe Babylonian Creation
D The Epic of Gilgamesh
Question #18
A The first female leader in Ancient Greece
B a painting on a cave wall in what is now Germany
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 the last chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
C the first chapter in the Babylonian creation myth
D a collection of songs, praise, thanksgiving, confession and supplication
Question #20
A The Book of the Dead
B The Epic of Gilgamesh
C The Code of Hammurabi
D The Babylonian Creation
Question #21
A Sumeria
B Abraham
C Jehovah
D Asseria
Question #22
A “platform for politcal speeches.”
B “home for the family of the dead.”
C “site for cremation ceremony.”
D “shrine and temple.”
Question #23
A “a combination of fate, free-will and destiny.”
B “peaceful, but becomes chaotic because of greed and war.”
C “created by God, but left in the hands of humans.”
D “systematically planned and invested with a preconceived moral order.”
Question #24
A the Persians
B the Chaldeans
C the Egyptians
D the Phoenicians
Question #25
A The Nile and the Black Sea
B The Caspian and the Antioch
C The Tigris and the Euphrates
D The Nile Delta and the Aegean