Deck 2: The Ancient Near East

Question 1

The beards of the Tell Asmar statues are best described as

A) red and stylized
B) naturalistic and black
C) stylized and curvilinear
D) black and stylized
E) black and curvilinear

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The hieros gamos refers to

A) a festival of the new year
B) a fertility ceremony
C) a sacred marriage
D) a holy game

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The Mesopotamians believed in

A) a heavenly afterlife
B) a gloomy afterlife
C) a joyous afterlife
D) a materialistic afterlife

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The earliest known writing is called

A) cuneiform
B) hieroglyphics
C) the alphabet
D) Akkadian

Question 5

The largest Neolithic site so far discovered in the ancient Near East is located in modern

A) Iraq
B) Iran
C) Turkey
D) Jordan

Question 6

Plastered Neolithic skulls were found in

A) Uruk
B) Jericho
C) Ur
D) Tell Asmar

Question 7

Sumerian art is characterized by

A) symmetry when seen from the front
B) clasped hands
C) large eyes in upturned faces
D) all of the choices are correct.

Question 8

Neolithic in the Near East developed about __________ years later than in Europe.

A) 1,000
B) 2,000
C) 3,000
D) 4,000
E) 5,000

Question 9

Ziggurats are

A) symbolic temples
B) symbolic rivers
C) symbolic sculptures
D) symbolic mountains

Question 10

Nergal and Ereshkigal are the

A) king and queen of the underworld
B) king and queen of the sky
C) king and queen of nature
D) king and queen of the sea

Question 11

Shamash is the Akkadian

A) moon god
B) lightning god
C) sun god
D) supreme god

Question 12

The first recorded epic is about

A) Noah
B) Odysseus
C) Abraham
D) Gilgamesh
E) Inanna

Question 13

The oldest fortified city,and a place of continuous habitation,is

A) Malta
B) Çatal Hüyük
C) Stonehenge
D) Jericho

Question 14

Ziggurats are an example of

A) post-and-lintel construction
B) arcuated construction
C) load-bearing construction
D) cantilever construction

Question 15

A Ziggurat is a

A) pyramid
B) fort
C) building made by Gudea
D) Mesopotamian temple platform

Question 16

Which of the following is not a Mesopotamian god?

A) Anu
B) Isis
C) Ishtar
D) Inanna

Question 17

The staring,wide eyes of the Tell Asmar statues are believed to indicate that the figures

A) are apotropaic
B) are praying
C) are in the presence of a god
D) are terrified by evil spirits

Question 18

Which of the following was found at Uruk?

A) The White Temple
B) The Abu Temple
C) The Ur Temple
D) The Stele of Urnammu

Question 19

Machtkunst refers to

A) divine masochism
B) power art
C) megaliths
D) monumental art

Question 20

The oldest planned town excavated so far is located at:

A) Çatal Hüyük
B) Jerusalem
C) Jericho
D) Babylon

Question 21

Most Assyrian wall decoration includes

A) domestic scenes
B) war
C) war and royal hunting scenes
D) royal hunting scenes

Question 22

Palace reliefs are most likely to have been found in

A) Uruk
B) Lagash
C) Babylon
D) Khorsabad
E) Hattusas

Question 23

Hammurabi is known for

A) the Epic of Gilgamesh
B) building the walls of Uruk
C) worshipping the sun god
D) making stelai
E) a law code

Question 24

Sargon was

A) an Akkadian ruler
B) a Sumerian ruler
C) a Hittite ruler
D) the ruler of Lagash
E) the ruler of Ur

Question 25

Which of the following does a Lamassu not have?

A) five legs
B) wings
C) horned cap
D) a sword
E) a beard

Question 26

A Stele is

A) a knife
B) a weapon
C) a boundary marker
D) a clay tablet
E) a city wall

Question 27

Gudea ruled

A)c.2100 B.C.
B)c.1800 B.C.
C)c.3000 B.C.
D)c.1500 B.C.
E)c.2600 B.C.

Question 28

"The one who saw the abyss...." refers to

A) Inanna
B) Achilles
C) Enki
D) Gilgamesh
E) Abu

Question 29

The statues of Gudea are best described as

A) of diorite, stylized and organic
B) of marble and naturalistic
C) idealized and naturalistic
D) naturalistic and organic
E) of gold, and with long, flowing hair

Question 30

Lagash was

A) a Persian city
B) an important city in Babylon
C) the center of the Neolithic Anatolia
D) an Assyrian city

Question 31

Lions were traditional guardians because

A) they were kings of the animals
B) they were thought never to sleep
C) they were powerful enough to keep enemies away
D) they symbolized the human king
E) they protect their cubs

Question 32

Which is not true of the Stele of Naram-Sin?

A)it is a relief
B)it represents landscape as well as human figures
C)it commemorates the death of Naram-Sin
D)it dates to the third millennium B.C.
E)it is Akkadian

Question 33

A Lamassu is

A) a guardian lion
B) a guardian bull
C) a guardian genius
D) a guardian king
E) a guardian angel

Question 34

Gudea thought of himself mainly as a patron of

A) cuneiform tablets
B) sculpture
C) temples
D) paintings
E) poetry

Question 35

The Hittite civilization was located in

A) modern Israel
B) modern Jordan
C) modern Iraq
D) modern Iran
E) modern Turkey

Question 36

Sir Leonard Woolley discovered the site of

A) Ur
B) Tell Asmar
C) Uruk
D) Persepolis
E) Lagash

Question 37

__________ ruled Akkad and waged war on his neighbors around 3000

A) Ashurnasirpal
B) Naram-Sin
B)C.
C) Narmer
D) Alexander the Great

Question 38

The figure of Naram-Sin is shown

A) with frontal shoulders and profile legs
B) with a frontal head and shoulders
C) with frontal legs and a profile head
D) with frontal shoulders and legs
E) holding a rod and scepter

Question 39

Tigris and Euphrates are

A) Mesopotamian gods
B) Hittite gods
C) Mesopotamian rivers
D) Mesopotamian mountains
E) Mesopotamian rulers

Question 40

Assurbanipal was known for

A) his cruelty and culture
B) his cruelty and virtue
C) his culture and learning
D) his power and his generosity
E) his charm and his diplomacy

Question 41

A documented,excavated object is said to have a

A) provenance
B) value
C) provenience
D) valuation
E) meaning

Question 42

The Ishtar Gate used

A) glazed brick
B) a true arch
C) patterns of horses
D) glazed brick and a true arch but not patterns of horses

Question 43

The Ishtar Gate was dedicated to

A) the god of war
B) the goddess of fertility
C) the goddess of the moon
D) the god of the underworld
E) the goddess of the hearth

Question 44

The Scythians are best known for

A) gold
B) diorite
C) pottery
D) temples
E) irrigation

Question 45

Whereas early Mesopotamian figures are shown with twisted perspective,Persian human figures

A) show shoulders in profile
B) have of extremely large eyes
C) have their hands clasped
D) appear on bas-relief

Question 46

Cuneiform literally means

A) cone-shaped
B) cylindrical
C) wedge-shaped
D) rectangular
E) triangular

Question 47

The Ishtar Gate is from

A) Paris
B) Babylon
C) Akkad
D) Persepolis

Question 48

An Apadana is

A) a gateway
B) a storage room
C) a sanctuary
D) an audience hall
E) an altar

Question 49

Which of the following are most logically connected?

A) Darius, Gudea, Sargon, Hammurabi
B) Ishtar, Sargon, Woolley, Ur
C) Cyrus, Darius, Persepolis, Susa
D) Gilgamesh, Susa, Tell Asmar, Uruk
E) Urnammu, Abu, Inanna, Ishtar

Question 50

A bull capital is most likely found at

A) Persepolis
B) Lagash
C) Babylon
D) Anatolia
E) Assyria