Unit 1: Asia the Largest Continent

Chapter 2: Fertile Crescent Cradle of Civilization

Topic: Religion in Sumer & Education in Sumer

Multiple-Choice Questions:

1. Why did the Sumerians seem superstitious?

a) They believed in lots of gods.
b) They were scared of natural events.
c) They didn't want to study what God made.
d) They mixed true beliefs with untrue ideas.
2. What did the Sumerians think thunder, wind, and storms were?
a) Special messengers from the gods
b) Science stuff
c) Actual gods
d) Tricks of the eye
3. How did digging up old stuff help us know more about stories in the Bible, says the text?
a) It proved the Bible was wrong.
b) It showed every Bible story was true.
c) It supported the Bible's truth.
d) It told us the Bible is all pretend.
4. Why did Sumerians build ziggurats?
a) To chat with their gods
b) To live inside them
c) To do science stuff
d) To hide from nature's troubles
5. What makes "our God" different from Sumerian gods, as said in the text?
a) Our God made everything, not just one thing.
b) You can only talk to our God from tall buildings.
c) Our God is part of nature.
d) Our God talks through thunderstorms.
6. What did Sumerian schooling mainly teach, according to the text?
a) Stuff about nature
b) How to do religious stuff
c) Reading and writing
d) How to stay fit

Short-Answer Questions:

7. Explain what a Sumerian ziggurat looked like and why they built them.

8. Tell us how Sumerian schools worked and who the teachers were.