Chapter 3 Self-Quiz

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. What are we referring to when we consider religions of "antiquity"?

Entire World correct incorrect

Specific Geographical Area correct incorrect

Specific Beliefs correct incorrect

Specific Rituals correct incorrect

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. What tradition is used to refer to the concept of "antiquity"?

Polytheistic and tribal based traditions correct incorrect

Indigenous Indo-European tradition correct incorrect

Persian (Zoroastrian) tradition correct incorrect

Greco-Roman pre-Christian tradition correct incorrect

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What is the name of the shrine dated from 9500–8000 BCE in southeastern Turkey?

Nabta Playa correct incorrect

Catalhoyuk correct incorrect

Gobekli Tepe correct incorrect

Stonehedge correct incorrect

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. The widely adored Egyptian goddess Hathor was depicted as which of the following?

Serpent correct incorrect

Eagle correct incorrect

Cheetah correct incorrect

Cow correct incorrect

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. Which deity is the Roman counterpart to the Greek god Zeus?

Jupiter correct incorrect

Juno correct incorrect

Dionysius correct incorrect

Neptune correct incorrect

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. Which god supplanted the earlier Mesopotamian supreme god Enil?

Horus correct incorrect

Inanna correct incorrect

Marduk correct incorrect

Isis correct incorrect

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. According to the Sumerian King List, where does kingship come from?

Through initiation into the mystery cults correct incorrect

By military victories correct incorrect

Direct lineage of ancestors correct incorrect

Descends from heaven correct incorrect

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. When was the Old Babylonian version of Gilgamesh modified into the standard version?

Toward the end of the first millennium BCE correct incorrect

Towards the middle of the first millennium BCE correct incorrect

Toward the end of the second millennium BCE correct incorrect

Toward the middle of the second millennium BCE correct incorrect

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. What is another name for Enuma Elish?

Epic of Creation correct incorrect

Epic of Destruction correct incorrect

Epic of Egypt correct incorrect

Epic of Origins correct incorrect

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How does the Egyptian composition Ludul Bel Nemequi ("I will praise the Lord of wisdom) portray Marduk?

Loving and forgiving correct incorrect

Wrathful and merciful correct incorrect

Judging and vengeful correct incorrect

Transcendent and immanent correct incorrect

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. What is the name of the ten day New Year festival that celebrated Babylon's culture?

Akitu correct incorrect

Wag and Thoth correct incorrect

Bast correct incorrect

Nehebkau correct incorrect

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. Which Egyptian gods did Akhenaten make a determined effort to eliminate?

Shu and Set correct incorrect

Horus and Isis correct incorrect

Amun and Mut correct incorrect

Khonsu and Nekhbet correct incorrect

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. What was the most important female-centered festival in cities throughout Greece?

Thesmophoria correct incorrect

Oracle Days correct incorrect

Isthmian Games correct incorrect

Feast of Athrodite correct incorrect

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. Where was the most famous site of the mystery cults in Greece?

Ephesus correct incorrect

Corinth correct incorrect

Athens correct incorrect

Eleusis correct incorrect

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When was the major shift by Greek philosophers who rejected the anthropomorphic view of the divine?

Early Third Century BCE correct incorrect

Second and First Century BCE correct incorrect

Late Sixth Century BCE correct incorrect

Fourth and Third Century BCE correct incorrect

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. In his final work, Laws, Plato shifted from cosmology to which of the following issues?

Epistemology correct incorrect

Morality correct incorrect

Religion correct incorrect

Aesthetics correct incorrect

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. The numen of Augustus referred to which of the following characteristics?

Divine power correct incorrect

Sexual virility correct incorrect

Military acumen correct incorrect

Philosophical intellect correct incorrect

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. Which Roman statesman encouraged civic religion in his work The Laws?

Varro correct incorrect

Plato correct incorrect

Cicero correct incorrect

Augustus correct incorrect

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. In the Zoroastrian tradition, the term Gathas refers to which of the following?

Hymns correct incorrect

Laws correct incorrect

Ethics correct incorrect

Myths correct incorrect

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. Mani referred to God by which of the following names?

Mother of Light correct incorrect

Father of Goodness correct incorrect

Ineffable Lover correct incorrect

Eternal Spirit correct incorrect