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Mesopotamian Art

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Mesopotamian art often showed honor to the ____________.

a)

earth

b)

gods

c)

civilization

d)

animals

2.

Much of Mesopotamian art contained images carved into clay or stone. In art, the term for this type of carving is known as _______________.

a)

drilling

b)

stippling

c)

cutting

d)

engraving

3.

What is the name of the wedge-like writing system found on much of the art in Mesopotamia?

a)

Cuneiform

b)

Hieroglyphics

c)

Calligraphy

d)

Emojis

4.

Cylinder seals were rolled onto wet _______.

a)

mud

b)

clay

c)

paint

d)

sand

5.

True or False: The purpose of a cylinder seal was to show ownership of property.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Cylinder seals left the imprint of an image just like a __________.

a)

stamp

b)

stencil

c)

sticker

d)

pen

7.

Why do cylinder seals have holes in them?

a)

they are broken

b)

to use as a straw

c)

to wear on a string like a necklace

d)

to look through like a telescope

8.

True or False: Only poor people wore cylinder seals.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The benefit of printing with cylinder seals it that it can make _____________ of the same image.

a)

multiples

b)

none

c)

only one

d)

different versions

10.

When we transfer our design to our block, why does it appear backwards?

a)

we did it wrong

b)

so it prints backwards too

c)

so it prints the correct way (mirror image)

d)

to make it more tricky to read