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Prehistoric - Meso Quiz#1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the name of the sculpture.

a)

Venus de Milo

b)

Venus of Willendorf

c)

Venus of Laussel

d)

Venus of Hohle Fels

2.

What is the name of this sculpture?

a)

The Thinker

b)

Discus Thrower

c)

Bul-ul

d)

Shigir

3.

A large upright stone that are either alone or together with other stones.

a)

Dolmens

b)

Mehzirich

c)

Tomb

d)

Megalith

4.

Made of two or more upright stones with a single stone lying across them.

a)

Dolmens

b)

Monolith

c)

Pithouse

d)

Stonehenge

5.

A prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, consists of a ring of standing stones.

a)

Dolmens

b)

Megaliths

c)

Stonehenge

d)

Carnac Stones

6.

Known as "The Land Between Rivers"

a)

Mesopotamia

b)

Babylon

c)

Persia

d)

Assyria

7.

Which one is not an invention of Mesopotamia?

a)

Wheel

b)

Cuneiform

c)

Sailboat

d)

Papyrus

8.

These figures are used as stand-ins or proxies for the donor who commissioned them.

a)

Venus sculpture

b)

Votive statues

c)

Megalithic stones

d)

Victory stele

9.

The writing of the Sumerians.

a)

Cuneiform

b)

Hieroglyphs

c)

Baybayin

d)

Standard of Ur

10.

True or False? Mesopotamia is also called "The Fertile Crescent" because the soil beds along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were rich with silt, which provided the necessary nutrients to establish agricultural communities.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

I don't know?

11.

A small cylinder of hard stone, carved as a "negative" so that the impression of it in the clay came out in relief.

a)

Victory Stele

b)

Cylinder Seals

c)

Law Code Stele

d)

Warka Case

12.

True or False? The ears and the eyes of the sculpture may have been removed to symbolically deprive the image of its ability to see and hear.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Tralse?

13.

Winged bull creatures with human heads.

a)

Sphinx

b)

Chimera

c)

Zebroid

d)

Lamassu

14.

A type of stone document used as boundary stones and as records of land grants to vassals in ancient Babylonia.

a)

Stele Stone

b)

Kudurru

c)

Cylinder Seal

d)

Hammurabi Code

15.

Constructed by King Nebuchadnezzar II as part of the Great Entrance to Babylon, covered with blue glazed tiles.

a)

Ishtar Gate

b)

The Arch

c)

Ziggurat of Ur

d)

Standard of Ur