Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios

Bachelor Program in English Language Teaching

LINGUISTICS
HISTORY OF WRITING QUIZ
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I. Check the following website and

answer the question.

https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/hss-language- 4. What does the word cuneiform mean?

evolution/wiki/chapter-17/ A. Picture words
1. Which of the following best describes B. Writing in Sumerian
cuneiform? C. Clay
A. Wedge shapes on a clay tablet D. Wedge-shaped
B. Stone writing E. Sound pictures
C. Pen and inkwell 5. About when did the Sumerians start to
D. Use of a brush to write use writing
to make records?
2. Compared to earlier Egyptian writing, A. 5000 BC
documents written on papyrus could be
B.  4200 BC
carried in one hand. This statement
infers that: C.  3300 BC
A. Papyrus was less expensive, and D. 2700 BC
therefore, more people could access 6. What was the stylus used for?
written materials A. To harden the clay and make the writing
B. Papyrus was lighter, and therefore, a permanent
person could carry more information
from place to place B. To make wedge-shaped marks in the
C. Writing on papyrus was of a lower clay
quality, which made it less valuable than C. To write ink onto the clay
previous methods D. All of the above
D. Unlike earlier writing, documents written E. None of the above
on papyrus needed to be held in the
7. What was the stylus made of?
reader's hand
A. . A stick from a reed plant
3. What type of material did the Sumerians B. Iron
write on? C. Wound up goat hair
A. Paper D Bronze
B. Papyrus
C. Animal hides E A stick with a flint point attached
D. Lenin cloth 8.True or false: Translating the writing of the
E. Clay tablets Mesopotamian people is fairly easy for
archeologists today?
  TRUE
  FALSE
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China.
9 What is the most famous piece of
Mesopotamian literature? 2. Codex__________Is a book constructed
of a number of sheets of paper, vellum,
A   The Gardens of Babylon
papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-
B   The Tombs of Ur written content.
C   The Library of Nineveh 3. _ Cunieform_______
D   The Epic of Gilgamesh Is one of the earliest systems of writing,
E   The Tale of Sargon the Great distinguished by its wedge-shaped
marks on clay tablets, made by means
10Which civilization is generally credited with of a blunt reed for a stylus.
inventing writing for the first time? 4. Pictographic____________Is a graph that
A   Greeks shows numerical information by using
B   Persians symbols or icons to represent data sets.
C   Babylonians 5. Ideographic___________Is a graphic
symbol that represents an idea or
D   Assyrians
concept, independent of any particular
E   Sumerians language, and specific words or
11 True or false: The writing method of the phrases.
Sumerians was used by many future 6. Phonogram__________A symbol
civilizations for thousands of years. representing a vocal sound
  TRUE 7. _ Hieroglyphics___________Writing made
  FALSE up of pictorial symbols used in ancient
Egyptian times.
12What other civilization came up with their
8. Hieratic________In the ancient Egyptian
own writing called hieroglyphics a bit later than
writing of abridged hieroglyphics used
the Mesopotamians?
by priests.
A   Greeks 9. __ Demotic_______Is the ancient
B   Romans Egyptian script derived from northern
C   Egyptians forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta,
D   Mayans and the stage of the Egyptian language
E   Mongols written in this script, following Late
Egyptian and preceding Coptic
II. Complete the definitions about writing 10_ Logogram
_______ Are writing systems in which each
Ideographic symbol represents a concept rather than a
Demotic sound, as in phonographic systems.
Cunieform
Phonogram
Pictographic
Hieratic
Codex
Hieroglyphics
Block Printing
Logogram

_ Block Printing
1. __________Technique for printing text,
images or patterns used widely
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