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Mesopotamia Quiz

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 1hrs 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where is Mesopotamia located?

a)

Between the Nile and Amazon rivers

b)

Between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

c)

Between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers

d)

Between the Danube and Rhine rivers

2.

What is polytheism?

a)

Belief in one god

b)

Belief in many gods

c)

Belief in no gods

d)

Belief in nature

3.

What was the main reason for the Sumerians to settle in the Fertile Crescent?

a)

The presence of gold

b)

The rich farmland

c)

The availability of wood

d)

The mild climate

4.

What did the Sumerians lack for tool-making?

a)

Clay

b)

Stone, wood, and metal

c)

Water

d)

Sand

5.

What was one of the solutions the Sumerians found for their environmental problems?

a)

Moving to another region

b)

Building irrigation ditches

c)

Storing rainwater

6.

What did the Sumerians use for defense?

a)

Stone walls

b)

Baked mud walls

c)

Wooden fences

d)

Metal barriers

7.

How did the Sumerians solve the problems they faced?

a)

By isolating themselves from other cultures

b)

By trading surplus food for resources

c)

By conquering neighboring lands

d)

By relying solely on agriculture

8.

What did the Sumerians invent?

a)

The compass

b)

The printing press

c)

The wheel, sail, and plow

d)

The telescope

9.

What was the role of women in Sumerian society?

a)

They could not own property

b)

They could enter most careers

c)

They were only allowed to be homemakers

d)

They were the primary rulers

10.

What was the role of slaves in Sumerian society?

a)

They were at the top of the social hierarchy

b)

They were the primary merchants

c)

They made up the lowest level

d)

They were the main rulers

11.

With flooding of the rivers unpredictable, how could farmers water their fields during the dry summer months?

a)

Build irrigation systems

b)

Use rainwater collection

c)

Depend on natural rainfall

d)

Import water from other regions

12.

Which of the following is an example of Sumerian culture in religion?

a)

Ziggurats

b)

Epic of Gilgamesh

c)

Cuneiform writing

d)

Wheel invention

13.

Which of the following is an example of Sumerian culture in literature?

a)

Epic of Gilgamesh

b)

Ziggurats

c)

Cuneiform writing

d)

Wheel invention

14.

What was a common material used in Sumerian construction?

a)

Mud bricks

b)

Stone blocks

c)

Wooden planks

d)

Metal sheets

15.

What metal can you create by mixing copper and tin?

a)

Aluminum

b)

Steel

c)

Bronze

d)

Nickel

16.
Who was Hammurabi? 
a)
God in Ancient Sumer
b)

King of Babylonian Empire

c)
 warrior who fought Gilgamesh
d)
scribe known throughout Mesopotamia
17.
Hammurabi said he wrote this code "to bring about the rule of righteousness  in the land" What word best defines righteousness in this context?
a)
Kindness
b)
Justice
c)
Equality
d)
Punishment
18.
What did Hammurabi do with the code of laws to make sure everyone knew of them?
a)
He had scribes write and display them for all to see
b)
He required fathers to teach the code to their children
c)
He had teachers make students memorize them
d)
He required priests to pray them to the gods as worship
19.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
a)
story of Babylonian empire's creation by the gods
b)
written language of Babylonian Empire
c)
 collection of written laws from the Babylonian Empire
d)
book describing warfare from the Babylonian Empire
20.
A kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia is called
a)
handwriting
b)
cursive
c)
cuneiform
d)
graffiti
21.
Which modern idiom refers to Hammurabi's Code?
a)
An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth
b)
It's raining cats and dogs.
c)
Break a leg!
d)
The wisdom of an old man brings wealth.
22.
Hammurabi's code is a famous system of laws because it ...
a)
is thought to be one of the earliest written set of laws
b)
led directly to the development of democracy
c)
had such lenient punishments
d)
was considered unfair, causing people to rebel in the world's first insurrection
23.
If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.  If he has nocked out the teeth of a plebeian (commoner), he shall pay one-third of a mina of silver."
--Code of Hammurabi
Which statement is best supported by this excerpt from Hammurabi's code of laws?
a)
Law sometimes distinguishes between social classes.
b)
All men are equal under the law.
c)
Violence must always be punished with violence.
d)
Fines are preferable to physical punishment.

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