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Chapter 4

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which phrase best describes Confucius's belief about human nature and lawful behavior?

a)

People are naturally moral and can control their behavior on their own.

b)

People are best controlled by fear.

c)

People learn good behavior by example.

d)

People cannot be controlled by any means.

2.

Which of the following rulers might have held a similar belief to Confucius?

a)

Shi Huangdi

b)

Cyrus

c)

King Ashurbanipal

d)

Ramses II

3.

What characteristic of the Assyrians does this relief seem to reflect?

a)

Their love of luxury

b)

Their military might

c)

Their administrative organization

d)

Their love of learning

4.

What did Legalists see as the key to restoring order?

a)

Efficient, powerful government

b)

Easygoing, self-sustaining government

c)

Relaxed, democratic government

d)

Overbearing, communist government

5.

Where did Shi Huangdi order noble families to live to diminish political opposition

a)

Provinces

b)

Their own homes

c)

The capital

d)

Wherever they wanted

6.

This form of government, established by Shi Huangdi, was a government that has unlimited power and uses it in an arbitrary manner?

a)

Democracy

b)

Aristocracy

c)

Autocracy

d)

Communist

7.

This form of government was founded by Hanfeizi and Li Si.

a)

Autocracy

b)

Socialism

c)

Daoism

d)

Legalism

8.

This practice, stressed by Confucius, focused on respect for your parents and ancestors.

a)

Legalism

b)

Bureaucracy

c)

Confucianism

d)

Filial Piety

9.

China's most influential scholar, teaching history, music, and moral character.

a)

Laozi

b)

Confucius

c)

Shi Huangdi

d)

I Ching

10.

The book of oracles consulted to solve ethical and practical problems.

a)

Li ning

b)

Yin and Yang

c)

Shi Huangdi

d)

I Ching

11.

Who taught that earth is a battleground where and great struggle is fought between the spirit of good and evil?

a)

Shi Huangdi

b)

Zoroaster

c)

Laozi

d)

Confucius

12.

How many miles long was the Royal Road?

a)

1,677

b)

7,761

c)

1.776

d)

6,771

13.

How often were outpost on the Royal Road?

a)

5 miles

b)

10 miles

c)

15 miles

d)

20 miles

14.

These were the governors of each Persian Province that ruled locally.

a)

Tax collectors

b)

Military generals

c)

Moms and Dads

d)

Satraps

15.

Cyrus' son, who expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt.

a)

Satrap

b)

Darius

c)

Cyrus

d)

Cambyses

16.

Cambyses's successor, begun his career as a member of the King's bodyguard.

a)

Cambyses

b)

Satrap

c)

Zoroaster

d)

Darius

17.

The royal road stretched from Persia to?

a)

Anatolia

b)

Babylonia

c)

Persia

d)

Egypt

18.

What Persian king conquered several neighboring kingdoms in 550 B.C.

a)

Darius

b)

Cyrus

c)

Confucius

d)

Cambyses

19.

What system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of the government?

a)

Bureaucracy

b)

Autocracy

c)

Democracy

d)

Socialist

20.

This was Assyria's capital.

a)

Washington D.C.

b)

Babylon

c)

Nebuchadnezzar

d)

Nineveh

21.

This king collected over 20,000 clay tablets from throughout the fertile crescent in the Nineveh's library.

a)

Cyrus

b)

Darius

c)

Ashurbanipal

d)

Midas

22.

In 612 B.C. these armies combined to burn and level the Nineveh.

a)

Medes and Chaldeans

b)

Egyptians and Assyrians

c)

Egyptians and Mesopotamians

d)

Medes and Assyrians

23.

Which king bragged of burning Babylon, and ordered most of its inhabitants killed?

a)

Darius

b)

Sennacherib

c)

Nebuchadnezzar

d)

Cyrus

24.

This represents the Two powers that together represent the rhythms of life

a)

Yang and Doaism

b)

Daoism and Legalism

c)

Yin and Yang

d)

Rock and roll

25.

This self declared Pharaoh spent their reign promoting trade instead of waging war.

a)

Hatshepsut

b)

Ramses II

c)

Hyksos

d)

Thutmose II

26.

Region of Africa that straddles the Nile river.

a)

Nubia

b)

Assyria

c)

Kush

d)

New Kingdom

27.

Pharaoh that made a treaty with a Hittite king promising "Peace and brotherhood between us forever"

a)

Ramses II

b)

Hatshepsut

c)

Thutmose III

d)

Donald Trump

28.

Kushite king that overthrew the dynasty that ruled Egypt for 200 years.

a)

Thutmose III

b)

Pankhi

c)

Ramses II

d)

Hatshepsut

29.

Hatshepsut's step son, who proved to be a very war-like ruler.

a)

Cyrus

b)

Hatshepsut

c)

Thutmose III

d)

Ramses II

30.

Which Asiatic invaders ruled Egypt from 1640-1570 B.C.?

a)

Hyksos

b)

Assyrians

c)

Egyptians

d)

Chaldeans

31.

Which Empire enslaved the Hebrews?

a)

Assyrians

b)

Chaldeans

c)

Nubians

d)

Egyptians

32.

What Chaldean king that restored the city of Babylon?

a)

Ashurbanipal

b)

Sennacherib

c)

Assyria

d)

Nebuchadnezzar

33.

Who was the first philosopher of Daoism?

a)

Confucius

b)

Laozi

c)

Shi Huangdi

d)

I Ching