HIEU 201 Chapter 1 Quiz

HIEU 201 CHAPTER 1 QUIZ
1.    Paleolithic religious beliefs
 
a. made a clear distinction between nature and the supernatural.    

 
b. did not include belief in life after death.    

 
c. centered around the idea that forces of nature had been created to serve human beings.    

 
d. centered around the idea that human beings needed to appease the forces of nature.    

2.    Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Neolithic Age?
 
a. Human beings discovered farming.    

 
b. Human beings started using iron tools.    

 
c. Human beings established villages.    

 
d. Human beings domesticated animals.

3.    The first civilizations
 
a. abandoned the monumental architecture of prehistoric cultures.    

 
b. developed systems for administration, cooperation, and record-keeping.    

 
c. lacked organized governments.    

 
d. did not yet possess specialization of labor.

4.    Sargon the Great
 
a. was known for his policy of pursuing peace at any cost.    

 
b. was the leader of an important Sumerian city-state.    

 
c. conquered territories, plundered their resources, and then left to find new opportunities for conquest.    

 
d. contributed to the spread of Sumerian culture beyond the boundaries of Mesopotamia.

5.    The Sumerians erected their religious temples atop huge multilevel mounds called
 
a. cuneiform.    

 
b. Nammu.    

 
c. stele.    

 
d. ziggurats.    

6.    The kings in ancient Mesopotamia
 
a. were viewed as being above the law and absolute in their power.    

 
b. were replaced by democracies governed by elders and assemblies of citizens.    

 
c. were believed to be living gods.    

 
d. were rulers thought to have been selected by the gods to represent them on earth

7.    The economy of Mesopotamian cities
 
a. was entirely self-sufficient.    

 
b. depended heavily on foreign and domestic trade.    

 
c. was largely unregulated.    

 
d. was conducted by a state bureaucracy.

8.    Which of the following describes the Egyptians' relationship with their environment?
 
a. The unpredictability of the Nile made Egyptian life precarious.    

 
b. Nature served as a source of security.    

 
c. The lack of natural boundaries subjected Egyptians to constant invasion and change.    

 
d. The challenges of nature were designed to punish human beings.

 
9.    The pharaohs
 
a. communicated the gods' will to the Egyptian people.    

 
b. had little impact on the lives of peasants and workers.    

 
c. were elected by a noble class.    

 
d. technically owned no earthly possessions.

10.    The Hittites
 
a. ruled Asia Minor and northern Syria.    

 
b. rejected all aspects of foreign culture.    

 
c. achieved no substantial technological progression.    

 
d. were absorbed into Babylonian civilization.

11.    Which of the following is NOT true of the Persian empire?
 
a. It was bound together by a uniform language, Aramaic.    

 
b. It was ruled by a council thought to represent the people.    

 
c. It developed an effective administrative system of twenty provinces.    

 
d. It allowed local elites a large measure of self-rule.

12.    Compared to a rational or scientific view of the world, a mythopoeic view
 
a. appeals primarily to the emotions rather than reason and tends to be more subjective than objective.    

 
b. sees the world of nature as an entity, like a machine, rather than a living being.    

 
c. is more logically consistent than the rational view developed by the Greeks.    

 
d. shows little imagination or emotion in interpreting nature.

13.    The ________ Age is also known as the Old Stone Age.
 
a. Neolithic    

 
b. Paleolithic    

 
c. Archaic    

 
d. Classical

14.    Which of the following civilizations rose first?
 
a. Phoenician    

 
b. Hittite    

 
c. Assyrian    

 
d. Sumerian

15.    The Epic of Gligamesh depicts the Mesopotamians' mood of
 
a. sensuality and emotionality.    

 
b. stoicism and tranquility.    

 
c. optimism and hope.    

 
d. pessimism and despair.

16.    In Paleolithic societies, human beings
 
a. were unable to communicate with one another by language.    

 
b. lived in large permanent settlements of several thousand people.    

 
c. obtained the necessities of life by gathering food and hunting.    

 
d. had not yet acquired the ability to make tools.

 
17.    The central force in the first civilizations was
 
a. religion.    

 
b. science.    

 
c. popularly-selected governance.    

 
d. iron technology.

18.    In Hammurabi's code of law
 
a. women enjoyed a legal status equal to that of men.    

 
b. the king was not bound by the law, but might legally do whatever he wished to do.    

 
c. women and children had no legal protection.    

 
d. crimes against nobles were punished more severely than crimes against commoners.    

19.    The religious teachings of the prophet Zoroaster
 
a. are dualistic, asserting the existence of both a good god and an evil god.    

 
b. are a complex set of polytheistic beliefs based on magic and blood sacrifice.    

 
c. represent the earliest known examples of monotheistic faith.    

 
d. reject the need for ethics in human life.

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