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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
2. The oldest fortified city, and a place of continuous habitation, is
A. Malta
B. Çatal Hüyük
C. Stonehenge
D. Jericho
3. Plastered Neolithic skulls were found in
A. Uruk
B. Jericho
C. Ur
D. Tell Asmar
4. The oldest planned town excavated so far is located at:
A. Çatal Hüyük
B. Jerusalem
C. Jericho
D. Babylon
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
6. Which of the following is not a Mesopotamian god?
A. Anu
B. Isis
C. Ishtar
D. Inanna
7. Shamash is the Akkadian
A. moon god
B. lightning god
C. sun god
D. supreme god
8. 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
9. The Mesopotamians believed in
A. a heavenly afterlife
B. a gloomy afterlife
C. a joyous afterlife
D. a materialistic afterlife
10. The hieros gamos refers to
A. a festival of the new year
B. a fertility ceremony
C. a sacred marriage
D. a holy game
11. Machtkunst refers to
A. divine masochism
B. power art
C. megaliths
D. monumental art
12. 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
13. A Ziggurat is a
A. pyramid
B. fort
C. building made by Gudea
D. Mesopotamian temple platform
14. Ziggurats are
A. symbolic temples
B. symbolic rivers
C. symbolic sculptures
D. symbolic mountains
15. Ziggurats are an example of
A. post-and-lintel construction
B. arcuated construction
C. load-bearing construction
D. cantilever construction
16. The earliest known writing is called
A. cuneiform
B. hieroglyphics
C. the alphabet
D. Akkadian
17. The first recorded epic is about
A. Noah
B. Odysseus
C. Abraham
D. Gilgamesh
E. Inanna
18. 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.
19. 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
20. 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
21. “The one who saw the abyss….” refers to
A. Inanna
B. Achilles
C. Enki
D. Gilgamesh
E. Abu
22. Sir Leonard Woolley discovered the site of
A. Ur
B. Tell Asmar
C. Uruk
D. Persepolis
E. Lagash
23. Tigris and Euphrates are
A. Mesopotamian gods
B. Hittite gods
C. Mesopotamian rivers
D. Mesopotamian mountains
E. Mesopotamian rulers
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
25. __________ ruled Akkad and waged war on his neighbors around 3000 B.C.
A. Ashurnasirpal
B. Naram-Sin
C. Narmer
D. Alexander the Great
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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.
29. Gudea thought of himself mainly as a patron of
A. cuneiform tablets
B. sculpture
C. temples
D. paintings
E. poetry
30. Lagash was
A. a Persian city
B. an important city in Babylon
C. the center of the Neolithic Anatolia
D. an Assyrian city
31. 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
32. A Stele is
A. a knife
B. a weapon
C. a boundary marker
D. a clay tablet
E. a city wall
33. 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
