Cstu 101 quiz 1 | History homework help

  

Question 1 

1. Which artifact depicts the      unification of Upper and Lower Egypt?

  

Rosetta Stone

 

Deluge Tablet

 

Obelisk of Ramses

 

Narmer Palette

3 points   

Question 2 

1. Which artifact provided the key      that allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics?

  

Narmer Palette

 

Luxor obelisk

 

King Tut’s tomb   inscriptions

 

Rosetta Stone

3 points   

Question 3 

1. The flux of change that we see in      a culture is called

  

Cultural   Modifications Theory

 

Cultural Epoch   Theory

 

Cultural Positioning   Theory

 

Cultural Movement   Theory

3 points   

Question 4 

1. Who is credited with inventing the      first written language, a system called cuneiform?

  

Egyptians

 

Greeks

 

Sumerians

 

Pharaohs

3 points   

Question 5 

1. Egypt was a __________ throughout      its long history.

  

Democracy

 

Republic

 

Theocracy

 

Socialist

3 points   

Question 6 

1. Who said “He is no fool who gives      what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose”

  

George Washington

 

Jim Elliot

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

Jim Henson

3 points   

Question 7 

1. Sumerians were from which area.

  

Greece

 

Egypt

 

Mesopotamia

 

Africa

3 points   

Question 8 

1. Known as the land between the      Rivers.

  

Mesopotamia

 

Israel

 

Rome

 

Greece

3 points   

Question 9 

1. Which president said “A nation      must believe in three things: It must believe in the past. It must believe      in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own      people to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating      their own future.”

  

Lincoln

 

Reagan

 

Roosevelt

 

Washington

3 points   

Question 10 

1. The Egyptian temples were the      first structures in the ancient world to be built entirely of _____.

  

Bricks

 

Cement

 

Stone

 

Lumber

3 points   

Question 11 

1. The Babylonian Captivity occurred      closest to which date?

  

1010 BC

 

586 BC

 

452 BC

 

810 BC

3 points   

Question 12 

1. What term describes the multiple      perspectives we see in Egyptian art, especially in portraying the human      body?

  

Frontal Plane

 

Canon

 

Foreshadowing

 

Contrapposto

3 points   

Question 13 

1. The establishment of permanent      agricultural communities marked the beginning of what?

  

Town

 

Culture

 

Community

 

Value

3 points   

Question 14 

1. Legal standards had been developed      in the past but none so practical as the Code of Laws that established the      rule of law from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. Who was the      Code of Laws named after?

  

Hannibal

 

Hammurabi

 

King Tut

 

King Darius

3 points   

Question 15 

1. Which cultures religion could be      described as being pragmatic and self-serving?

  

Egypt

 

Mesopotamians

 

Assyrians

 

Greeks

3 points   

Question 16 

1. The most significant Sumerian      literary work was

  

Venus of Willendorf

 

Epic of Gilgamesh

 

Stonehenge

 

Hall of Running   Bulls

3 points   

Question 17 

1. Who said that “To be ignorant of      what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child” when we do      not have an understanding of the past?

  

Cicero

 

Cato

 

Goethe

 

Socrates

3 points   

Question 18 

1. This was perhaps the best known      sculpture of Egyptian art.

  

Queen Nefretete

 

Amenhotep

 

Pharaoh IV

 

Temple of Amon

3 points   

Question 19 

1. Who wrote these words for us to      live by? “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and      deceptive philosophy…”

  

Paul

 

John

 

Pharaoh

 

Socrates

3 points   

Question 20 

1. The first written language was      called

  

Cuneiform

 

Hieroglyphics

 

Phonics

 

Homonics

3 points   

Question 21 

1. Technology involves the      manipulation of raw materials to produce some benefit.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 22 

1. Egyptian culture’s life and      religion were inseparable.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 23 

1. Sumerian sculptures mainly used      granite for their statue.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 24 

1. The Iwo Jima Memorial is located      in Japan, and is a tribute to their soldiers.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 25 

1. The Egyptian Culture was short      lived and lasted only a few centuries.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 26 

1. The Egyptians did not have the      technology of the wheel when they built the pyramids.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 27 

1. The Egyptian Culture was very      concerned about the color of skin pigmentation and made a point to      segregate those who were different.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 28 

1. Early Christian art showed a      shepherd carrying a sheep? This symbolized their admiration for this      occupation?

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 29 

1. The “Men of Issachar”      were located in a small town in Egypt, and directed the construction of      the first pyramid.

True 

False 

2 points   

Question 30 

1. Egyptian art depicts men and woman      according to their most characteristic angle; that is the face and legs in      profile but the eyes and torso as if viewed from the front.

True 

False