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Question #1

Ancient religions recognized many gods, and made stories about them to explain natural phenomenon. A list of gods in an ancient culture is called a:

A. Pantheon

B. Polytheism

C. Theology

D. Mythology

Question #2

In Babylonian mythology, Marduk was the grandson of Tiamat and rallied the gods to rebel against her. When they had defeated Tiamat, Marduk tore her body in half and used it to create:

A. night and day

B. sweet water and salt water

C. dry land and sky

D. sun and moon

Question #3

While the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia worshipped many gods, the Abrahamic faiths worshipped only one god. The belief in a single god is called:

A. Monolithic

B. Humanistic

C. Monotheism

D. Deism

Question #4

The Pharaohs of Egypt were considered gods on earth. In order to make themselves visually distinct from other people, the Pharaohs:

A. shaved the hair from their bodies

B. had multiple wives

C. wore long, tube-like beards

D. tattooed their skin

Question #5

One of the visual arts is painting, in which the artist creates form using pigment and surface. Frequently there must be a third substance, like the oil in oil paint. That third substance is called:

A. bindery

B. gesso

C. turpentine

D. support

Question #6

The Egyptians created documents on papyrus, which is paper made from river reeds. One of the most important documents included hymns, prayers and instructions for the afterlife. It is called:

A. Book of the Dead

B. Rosetta Stone

C. Cuneiform

D. Hieroglyphics

Question #7

At the beginning of his epic, Gilgamesh is not a wise ruler. He separates sons from their mothers and sleeps with other men's wives. He also does as he pleases with the:

A. scared altar

B. tocsin, an alarm bell

C. annual tax

D. Sumerian king's list

Question #8

Osiris is the oldest child of Nut, born as a man. He becomes the god of fertility and ruler of the underworld after his brother Set tricks him into:

A. Creating agriculture

B. Lying in a box

C. Traveling in the underworld

D. Betraying his wife, Isis

Question #9

Egypt is a civilization based on the Nile River, which flooded each year at the same time, with the same amount of water. This regularity led to the belief that death was not an end, but another phase of life. This idea was supported by the fact that the desert:

A. included deadly creatures

B. seemed endless

C. naturally mummified bodies

D. had heavenly oases

Question #10

One of the first people Gilgamesh meets after passing under Mount Mashu advises him to seek Urshanbi the boatman. That person is:

A. Siduri, the winemaker

B. the goddess Ishtar

C. Marduk, hero of Babylonia

D. the god Adad

Question #11

In early cultures, the gods are born of primal elements like earth, water or sky. In Babylonian mythology they were Apsu the sweet water, Tiamat the salt water and:

A. Shamash, the sun

B. Ishtar, goddess of love

C. Urshnabi, the underworld

D. Mummu, the mist

Question #12

Gilgamesh finds a plant that gives eternal youth, which is stolen by a snake. He knows the snake will be young forever because: the snake:

A. avoids his attempt to kill it

B. lives in water

C. can suddenly talk

D. sheds its skin

Question #13

The first laws were written in cuneiform on black stone markers, and allowed the king to rule in absentia, that is, while he was not present in the city. This king was:

A. Sargon the Great

B. Darius

C. Ashursirbanipal

D. Hammurabi

Question #14

Sin-Leqi-Unimmi, a Babylonian priest, compiled disconnected stories of Gilgamesh into a single epic sometime between 1,600 and 1,000 BCE. This corresponds with documents written by another culture, which eventually became:

A. The Koran

B. The Old Testament

C. The library of Nineveh

D. Greek mythology

Question #15

Before the arrival of Enkidu into the city, Gilgamesh has two dreams. In one, a star falls at his feet and in the other he discovers a strangely shaped axe. These dreams are interpreted as omens of Enkidu by:

A. Tiresias, the prophet

B. Enkidu himself

C. Ninsun, his mother

D. Lugalbanda, his father

Question #16

Civilization is a state of human existence in which people live together for mutual benefit. One civilization began in ancient Greece, was copied and improved by ancient Rome, and is the foundation of our own civilization. It is called:

A. Greek civilization

B. Middle Eastern civilization

C. Human civilization

D. Western civilization

Question #17

The first cities were built near rivers which provided water for agriculture. The earliest was Mesopotamia, on the Tigris and Euphrates. The name “Mesopotamia” is Greek, meaning:

A. Mother goddess

B. Between rivers

C. First civilization

D. Mother water

Question #18

A visual art is a work intended primarily for the sense of sight. Other artworks are created before an audience and have duration. These are called

A. ritual

B. performing arts

C. theatre

D. oral tradition

Question #19

The Epic of Gilgamesh has been written in many languages, and published in many versions, for over three thousand years. The first Gilgamesh stories were written in:

A. Greek

B. Sumerian

C. Babylonian

D. Persian

Question #20

Gilgamesh undertakes a quest to find immortality. He travels to Mount Mashu, where he finds the entrance to another world guarded by:

A. A dragon

B. Siduri, the alewife

C. The goddess Ishtar

D. Scorpion men

Question #21

Angry with Gilgamesh, the goddess Ishtar asks her father Anu for permission to use a terrible creature against him. He agrees after she tells him that the people of Uruk have enough grain stored for seven years. That terrible creature was:

A. the Cyclops

B. a falling star

C. the Scorpion Man

D. the Bull of Heaven

Question #22

The ability to read Egyptian hieroglyphics was lost for centuries. The Rosetta Stone allowed scholars to translate hieroglyphics because it included the same information in:

A. ancient Greek

B. Old Persian

C. French

D. Hebrew

Question #23

Taoism is the believe system of ancient China, which was different from many others in the world because it was:

A. atheistic

B. monotheistic

C. polytheistic

D. amoral

Question #24

There was a historical King Gilgamesh, who ruled Uruk between 2,700 and 2,500 BCE. This is verified by two sources: his name stamped on bricks, and carved on the:

A. Code of Hammurabi

B. Rosetta Stone

C. Behistun Inscription

D. Sumerian King's List

Question #25

Tiamat was the Mother Goddess of Babylonian mythology. Because the Mother Goddess appears in the mythologies of many cultures, she is considered an:

A. Archetype

B. Immortal

C. Inspiration

D. Amoral

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