STUDY GUIDE: Ancient Near East

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1) What material was used to make the Ishtar Gate?
A) Wood
B) Glazed bricks
C) Cut stone
D) Metal panels
E) Adobe

2) The Sumerians built primarily of wood and what other material?
A) Granite
B) Diorite stone
C) Mud brick
D) Tufa
E) Marble

3) What is the main room of a Sumerian temple called?
A) Audience hall
B) Hypostyle hall
C) Atrium
D) Cella
E) None of the above

4) Who wrote one of the very first codes of law?
A) Darius I
B) Hammurabi
C) Gudea
D) Xerxes
E) None of the above

5) The statues from Abu Temple at Tell Asmar ________.
A) were made of terra-cotta
B) cubic forms were dominant
C) were carved of stone
D) have no eyes
E) were carved wood

6) The “bent-axis approach” was typical of which type of structure?
A) Greek temples
B) Sumerian ziggurats
C) Persian temples
D) Persian palaces
E) Egyptian pyramids

7) The stela depicting the Law Code of Hammurabi comes from which culture?
A) Sumerian
B) Babylonian
C) Egyptian
D) Assyrian
E) None of the above

8) Darius I and Xerxes are two of the most important figures of which culture?
A) Assyrian
B) Egyptian
C) Greek
D) Achaemenidian
E) Sumerian

9) What was the most important form of architecture for the Persians?
A) Fortresses
B) Palaces
C) Mastabas
D) Temples
E) Tombs

10) Who looted and burned the palace in Persepolis?
A) Imhotep
B) Xerxes
C) Alexander
D) Darius I
E) Ramses II