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SEA-Timeline I

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to scientists, _______ _________ are the first modern humans.

a)

Early Neanderthals

b)

Homo Sapiens

c)

Neanderthal Patrons

d)

Adam, Eve

2.

_________are Homo Sapiens failed cousins, another species of people.

a)

Primates

b)

Denisovans

c)

Neanderthals

d)

Hermits

3.

________is yellow, red, and brown earthy oxides mixed with water and used as pigments by Neanderthals or Homo Sapiens to create the Cave Art.

a)

Ochre

b)

Paint

c)

Oil

d)

Acrylic

4.

_________are a sheet or sheets made of plastic in which lettering or a design has been cut so that ink or paint applied to the sheet will reproduce a pattern on a surface beneath. (AHC Dictionary)

a)

Paraffins

b)

Papers

c)

Vellums

d)

Stencils

5.

It is unclear what the artists who created the Cave Art used as a/an _______.

a)

Paraffin

b)

Paper

c)

Vellum

d)

Stencil

6.

New dating technology suggests that __________are responsible for some of the first cave art, rather than modern humans, as previously believed.

a)

Primates

b)

Denisovans

c)

Neanderthals

d)

Hermit

7.

If the new discovery regarding Neanderthals proves true, it would suggest that they were capable of more ________ thought than scholars previously suspected.

a)

Complex

b)

Abstract

c)

Intelligent

d)

All of the above

e)

None of the above

8.

New tests on the rock and calcium carbonate that formed over parts of the ochre show that they were painted _________ years ago.

a)

10

b)

100

c)

10000

d)

65,000

9.

65,000 years ago is 20,000 years before the first humans got to Europe.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

D. Hoffman (one of the scientists involved with this new theory) suggests that making these paintings might well have required planning, organization, perhaps even _______, though he acknowledges that that is speculation.

a)

Computers

b)

Force

c)

Language

d)

Grass

11.

The author’s main purpose is to share a discovery about Cave Art that has the potential to change the way we view __________.

a)

Humans

b)

Denisovans

c)

Hermit

d)

Neanderthals

12.

The article emphasizes that our ideas and understanding of the past are constantly _________ with new discoveries.

a)

Changing

b)

Evolving

c)

Growing

d)

None of the above

e)

All of the above

13.

Around 1800 BCE is the time of ________, father of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

a)

Abraham

b)

David

c)

Jesus

d)

John

14.

To judge Abraham’s faith, God commanded that he kill his son, David.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Abraham planned to do as God commanded and kill his son, Isaac. Just as Abraham was about to stab his son, a/an ________ appeared and stopped him.

a)

Devil

b)

Angel

c)

Shepherd

d)

Prophet

16.

We have studied _________ ________painting of this Biblical scene (Abraham and Isaace).

a)

Michelangelo’s Renaissance

b)

Rembrandt’s Baroque

c)

David’s Neoclassical

d)

Picasso’s Modern

17.

The Trojan War might have happened around _______ BCE.

a)

1800

b)

1200

c)

900

d)

588

18.

Thought to have been only a legend until the Modern Era (1890-1960), scholars now believe the Trojan War really occurred in the country we now call

a)

Greece.

b)

Rome.

c)

Turkey.

d)

Russia.

19.

1010-970 BCE King ________ was famous for killing the giant Philistine, Goliath, when he was still just a shepherd.

a)

David

b)

Solomen

c)

George

d)

James

20.

Cerca 900 BCE, _________ is thought to have written The Iliad and The Odyssey about the Trojan War.

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Ovid

c)

Homer

d)

Hemmingway

21.

No one really knows who Homer was, or if Homer was a woman or a man.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

The Odyssey is an _______ poem. “An _______ is a long narrative poem about a national or legendary hero.

a)

Limerick

b)

Fable

c)

Christian

d)

Epic

23.

Ancient Greece produced two epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, which are considered the first great works of Western Literature.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

The Iliad stars _________, a brave and vicious hero.

a)

Achilles

b)

Odysseus

c)

Ulyseus

d)

Agamemnon

25.

The Odyssey is named for its hero, ___________,” who the Ancient Romans called Ulysses. (Adventures in Reading)

a)

Achilles

b)

Odysseus

c)

Ulyseus

d)

Agamemnon

26.

The birth of Odysseus’ son,__________, caused Odysseus to dodge his draft to the Trojan War.

a)

Menalaus

b)

Agamemnon

c)

Telemachus

d)

Achilles

27.

_______, the goddess of wisdom, is the goddess that looks over Odysseus.

a)

Hera

b)

Aphrodite

c)

Athena

d)

Ares

28.

_________, wife of Menalaus, King of Sparta, was the cause of the Trojan War.

a)

Athena

b)

Helen

c)

Hera

d)

Hestia

29.

While Prince _______ of Troy visited Menalaus and Helen in Sparta, he stole Helen away and took her to Troy.

a)

Hectar

b)

Achilles

c)

Odysseus

d)

Paris

30.

The Greek Kings had agreed to protect the marriage of Menalaus and Helen, so Greece gathered all of their kings, and 1000 ships, and attacked the walled city of _______ to get Helen back from Prince Paris.

a)

Troy

b)

Ithaca

c)

Sparta

d)

Athens

31.

Some of the Greek kings were Odysseus, Menalaus, and Agamemnon, their leader.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

____________ was the Greek killed by Prince Paris.

a)

Hectar

b)

Paris

c)

Odysseus

d)

Achilles

33.

The death of Achilles nearly broke the __________spirit to continue the Trojan War.

a)

Trojans’

b)

Athenians’

c)

Greeks’

d)

Etruscans’