Question 1.
From which wordCuneiform is derived?
(a) Latin
(b) Greek
(c) Chinese
(d) Mayan
Answer
Answer: (a) Latin
Question 2.
Which language replaced the Sumerian language after 2400 BCE?
(a) Mesopotamian language
(b) Akkadian language
(c) Chinese language
(d) Middle Eastern language
Answer
Answer: (b) Akkadian language
Question 3.
In the 2000 BCE, the city that flourished as the royal capital of Mesopotamia was
(a) Ur
(b) Mari
(c) Mohenjodaro
(d) Kalibangan
Answer
Answer: (b) Mari
Question 4.
With which person, the first event of Sumerian trade is associated?
(a) The ancient ruler of Uruk City, Enmerkar
(b) The ancient ruler of Lebanon City, Enmerkar
(c) The ancient ruler of Nile City, Enmerkar
(d) The ancient ruler of Aral City, Enmerkar
Answer
Answer: (a) The ancient ruler of Uruk City, Enmerkar
Question 5.
Inanna was the Goddess of
(a) the Moon
(b) love and War
(c) wind
(d) fire
Answer
Answer: (b) love and War
Question 6.
The earliest temples in Southern Mesopotamia were built-in
(a) c.4000 BCE
(b) c.5000 BCE
(c) c.6000 BCE
(d) c.7000 BCE
Answer
Answer: (b) c.5000 BCE
Question 7.
Mesopotamian weapons were prominently made of
(a) bronze
(b) copper
(c) stone
(d) iron
Answer
Answer: (a) bronze
Question 8.
The Mesopotamian city, which was systematically excavated in the 1930s, was
(a) Uruk
(b) Ur
(c) Mari
(d) Nineveh
Answer
Answer: (b) Ur
Question 9.
The Achaemenids of Iran conquered Babylon in
(a) 639 BCE
(b) 539 BCE
(c) 439 BCE
(d) 339 BCE
Answer
Answer: (b) 539 BCE
Question 10.
The King who released Babylonia from Assyrian domination in 625 BCE was
(a) Alexander
(b) Nabonidus
(c) Nabopolassar
(d) Sargon
Answer
Answer: (c) Nabopolassar
Question 11.
The technological landmark witnessed by the urban economy of the city of Uruk was
(a) bronze tools
(b) construction of brick columns
(c) potter’s wheel
(d) oil pressing technique
Answer
Answer: (c) potter’s wheel
Question 12.
War captives and local people who were put to work for the temple or for the ruler were paid
(a) bronze tools
(b) cattle
(c) coins
(d) rations
Answer
Answer: (d) rations
Question 13.
In ______ part of southern Iran, the first cities and writing emerged.
(a) plain
(b) deserted
(c) mountainous
(d) hilly
Answer
Answer: (b) deserted
Question 14.
The Mesopotamian ruler who became the king of Akkad, in 2370 BCE, was
(a) Enmerkar
(b) Gilgamesh
(c) Hammurabi
(d) Sargon
Answer
Answer: (d) Sargon
The name Mesopotamia is derived from the Greek words
mesos, meaning________, and potamos, meaning river.
(a) Back
(b) Upper
(c) Middle(Answer)
(d) Deep
2. Mesopotamia is now part of the Republic of_______.
(a) Pakistan
(b) Iraq(Answer)
(c) China
(d) Egypt
3. Mesopotamia the land between the two river ________
and ___________
(a) Tigris and Nile
(b) Euphrates and Nile
(c) Tigris and Euphrates(Answer)
(d) None of the above
4. The first known language of the land was ________
(a) Arabic
(b) Sumerian(Answer)
(c) Persian
(d) Akkadian
5. Mesopotamia was important to Europeans because of
references to it in the______, the first part of the Bible.
(a) Bible No. 1
(b) New Testament
(c) Old Testament(Answer)
(d) Testament part 498
6. Archaeology in Mesopotamia began in
the___________.
(a) 1850s
(b) 1840s(Answer)
(c) 1870s
(d) 1900s
7. The story of Noah is similar to the story in
Mesopotamian tradition, where the principal character was
called _________
(a) Ziusudra
(b) Utnapishtim
(c) Avatar
(d) a and b both(Answer)
8. Mesopotamian weapons were made up of metal (-
____________)
(a) Bronze(Answer)
(b) Iron
(c) Copper
(d) Iron
9. Bronze is an alloy of ___________and tin.
(a) Iron
(b) Copper(Answer)
(c) Lead
(d) None of these
10. The earliest cities in Mesopotamia date back to the
bronze age, c.____ BCE.
(a) 1000
(b) 2000
(c) 3000(Answer)
(d) 4000
11. In the north of the Mesopotamia, there is a stretch of
upland called a __________, where animal herding offers
people a better livelihood than agriculture – after the
winter rains, sheep and goats feed on the grasses and low
shrubs that grow here.
(a) Craps
(b) Steppe(Answer)
(c) Water land
(d) Lead Land
12. The division of ___________ is a mark of urban life.
(a) Home
(b) Labour(Answer)
(c) Life
(d) Time
14. This woman’s head was sculpted in white marble at
_______before 3000 BCE.
(a) Mali
(b) Uruk(Answer)
(c) Steppe
(d) None of these
15. The eyes and eyebrows would probably have taken
__________(blue) and shell (white) and bitumen (black)
inlays, respectively.
(a) Black Ruble
(b) lapis lazuli(Answer)
(c) Bactic
(d) White ruble
16. In Mesopotamia the cheapest way of transportation is
____________
(a) bullock carts
(b) air
(c) Water(Answer)
(d) None of the above
17. ___________river in Mesopotamia was important for
‘world route’.
(a) Euphrates(Answer)
(b) lapis lazuli
(c) Tigris
(d) Both a and c
18. The first Mesopotamian tablets, written around
_____BCE.
(a) 3500
(b) 3200(Answer)
(c) 450
(d) 4500
19. What language was used after Sumerian.
(a) Akkadian(Answer)
(b) English
(c) Persian
(d) Arabic
20. ________ in Mesopotamian was a skilled craft but,
more important, it was an enormous intellectual
achievement, conveying in visual form the system of
sounds of a particular language.
(a) Swimming
(b) Dancing
(c) Writing(Answer)
(d) Horse riding
21. ________ Mesopotamians could read and write.
(a) Many
(b) Only king of
(c) Very few(Answer)
(d) Only 100
22. _______ was the earliest rulers of Uruk.
(a) Alexander
(b) Urukian
(c) Enmerkar(Answer)
(d) Charles
23. Cuneiform is derived from the _________words
cuneus, meaning ‘wedge’ and forma, meaning ‘shape’.
(a) Greek
(b) Latin(Answer)
(c) Sanskrit
(d) Persian
24. ________was the Goddess of Love and War
(a) Ur
(b) Inanna(Answer)
(c) Avatar
(d) All of the above
25. _________ was the god of Moon.
(a) Ur(Answer)
(b) Inanna
(c) Avatar
(d) All of the above
26. Why leaders encouraged the settlement of villagers
close to themselves,
(a) For food
(b) For water
(c) to be able to rapidly get an army together.(Answer)
(d) to be able to make boat together.
27. there was a technological landmark that we can say is
appropriate to an urban economy was ______________
(a) Boat
(b) the potter’s wheel(Answer)
(c) Irrigation system
(d) King
28. In Mesopotamia until the end of the ____millennium
BCE, cylindrical stone seals, pierced down the centre,
were fitted with a stick and rolled over wet clay so that a
continuous picture was created.
(a) Second
(b) First(Answer)
(c) Third
(d) Forth
29. Mesopotamian society the ______ family.
(a) Nuclear(Answer)
(b) Joint
(c) Mix
(d) Divided
30. Ur was a town whose ordinary houses were
systematically excavated in the_________.
(a) 1930s(Answer)
(b) 1940s
(c) 1960s
(d) 1980s
. The kings of Mari were _________ community
(a) Amorites(Answer)
(b) Dagan
(c) Akkadians
(d) Assyrians
32. who was the god of Steppe
(a) Mari
(b) Dagon(Answer)
(c) Dragan
(d) Ur
33. Most of the territory was used as ____________in
Mari.
(a) pasturing goat and sheep(Answer)
(b) Agriculture
(c) Temple
(d) Waste land
34. There was a conflict between _______ and farmer in
Mari
(a) Farmer’s family
(b) Herdsmen(Answer)
(c) Trader
(d) King
35. Mari stands not on the southern plain with its highly
productive agriculture but much further upstream on
the____________.
(a) Euphrates(Answer)
(b) Tigris
(c) Nile
(d) Ganga
36. In 2000 BCE ___________ city flourished as the royal
capital of Mesopotamia
(a) Ur
(b) Mari(Answer)
(c) Dagon
(d) Amorites
37. who was the popular king of Mari.
(a) Dagon
(b) Amorites
(c) Zimrilim(Answer)
(d) Noah
38. There was _____ rooms in The Palace at Mari of King.
(a) 250
(b) 260(Answer)
(c) 270
(d) 280
39. copper, tin, oil, wine, and various other goods that
were carried in boats along the ____________– between
the south and the mineral-rich uplands of Turkey, Syria
and Lebanon.
(a) Tigris
(b) Nile
(c) Euphrates(Answer)
(d) Ganga
