CSTU 101 practice materials _quiz_1.docx 18.pdf

Question 1

3 out of 3 points

Uncommon valor was a common virtue is located on which monument?

Selected Answer:

Iwo Jima Memorial

Question 2

3 out of 3 points

Greek historian and writer who described Egypt as “all the country covered by the inundations of the

Nile”

Selected Answer:

Herodotos

Question 3

3 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Rosetta Stone

Question 4

3 out of 3 points

The belief in and worship of many gods.

Selected Answer:

Polytheism

Question 5

3 out of 3 points

Known as the land between the Rivers.

Selected Answer:

Mesopotamia

Question 6

3 out of 3 points

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?

Selected Answer:

Hammurabi

Question 7

3 out of 3 points

The basic way an individual looks at life, his basic worldview, the grid through which he see the world.

Selected Answer:

Presuppositions

Question 8

3 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Stone

Question 9

3 out of 3 points

The National Archives was designed to symbolize the importance of .

Selected Answer:

The Past

Question 10

3 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Sumerians

Question 11

3 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Cultural Epoch Theory

Question 12

3 out of 3 points

The first written language was called

Selected Answer:

Cuneiform

Question 13

3 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Culture

Question 14

0 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Assyrians

Question 15

3 out of 3 points

What could justly be described as the study of how people process and document their human

experience?

Selected Answer:

Humanities

Question 16

3 out of 3 points

"The Heritage of the Past is the Seed that Brings Forth the Harvest of the Future." Is located on which

building in Washington?

Selected Answer:

National Archives

Question 17

3 out of 3 points

The most significant Sumerian literary work was

Selected Answer:

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 18

3 out of 3 points

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.”

Selected Answer:

Roosevelt

Question 19

3 out of 3 points

A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamians.

Selected Answer:

Ziggurats

Question 20

3 out of 3 points

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

Selected Answer:

Jim Elliot

Question 21

2 out of 2 points

Sumerian sculptures mainly used granite for their statue.

Selected Answer:

False

Question 22

0 out of 2 points

The Egyptian Culture was very concerned about the color of skin pigmentation and made a point to

segregate those who were different.

Selected Answer:

True

Question 23

0 out of 2 points

The Egyptian and Mesopotamian culture were very similar.

Selected Answer:

True

Question 24

2 out of 2 points

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

Selected Answer:

False

Question 25

2 out of 2 points

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

Selected Answer:

True

Question 26

2 out of 2 points

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.

Selected Answer:

True

Question 27

2 out of 2 points

The visual arts used within a culture are usually self-explanatory.

Selected Answer:

True

Question 28

2 out of 2 points

The "Men of Issachar" were located in a small town in Egypt, and directed the construction of the first

pyramid.

Selected Answer:

False

Question 29

0 out of 2 points

Sumerian civilization was ancient, but not very advanced in learning.

Selected Answer:

True

Question 30

2 out of 2 points

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

CSTU 101 practice materials _quiz_1.docx 18.pdf

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