EUH-2000- 8:30 Class - Quiz 1
From textbook:
1. The Old Stone Age (Paleolithic) lasted from: a. 1 million to 10,000 BCE,
b. 500,000 to 3,000 BCE, c. 5 million to 1 million BCE, d.10 million to 2 million BCE.
2. The first civilizations emerged in: a. China, b. India, c. Palestine, d.
Mesopotamia.
3. According to the text, our own species, Homo sapiens emerged about: a. 3,000 BCE,
b. 200,000 BCE, c. 1 million BCE, d. 3 million BCE.
4. The Old Testament story of the Flood may have come from: a. Babylonia, b. India,
c. Egypt, d. the epics of Homer, e. the Book of the Dead.
5. Writing, large urban centers, heavy fortifications, bronze weapons and tools, large-scale irrigation, large surplus food and industrial production first appeared together around: a. 30,000 BCE, b. 10,000-8,000 BCE, c. 4,000-3,000 BCE, d. 1,500-1,200 BCE.
6. The primary distinguishing characteristic of Egyptian religion was: a. a focus on life after death, b. monotheism, c. obsession with the Devil, d. military obedience training,
e. predestination.
7. The people who inhabited Palestine before the Israelites arrived were the: a. Egyptians,
b. Babylonians, c. Sumerians, d. Canaanites, e. Assyrians
8. The prophesies given in the text insert claiming that all nations will "bow down" to the Hebrews and "lick the dust of their feet" were attributed to: a. Abraham, b. King David,
c. Isaiah, d. the Messiah, e. Adam.
9. Assured justice and certainty about the divine were the points the textbook authors emphasize as the main differences between the religions of Mesopotamia and the:
a. Egyptians, b. Hebrews, c. Greeks, d. Romans, e. Assyrians.
10. Eliminated.
Lecture-video-blackboard items:
11. According to the lecture, the superior intelligence of humans was caused mainly by:
a. the large brain of the first hominids, b. man created as a moral being,
c. migration out of Africa, d. moving into predatory lifestyles.
12. According to the Dawn of Man, all humans today are descended from ancestors that migrated out from the coasts of Africa around: a. 4 million years ago, b. 10,000 years ago,
c. 3.25 million years ago, d. 3,000 years ago, e. 100,000 years ago.
13. Eliminated
14. According to the first lecture, most of the history and cultural beliefs
of ancient and medieval civilizations were: a. revealed by God, b. mere
myths and wishful fantasies,
c. based on sound wisdom, d. supported by good evidence.
15. In the video and lecture, the anthropological experts claimed that modern humans:
a. were descendants of the Neanderthals, b. were not related to apes, c.
left Africa one million years ago, d. had large brains 5 million years ago,
e. radiated out of Africa beginning 100k years ago.
16. According to the last lecture, the polytheistic nature religions of pagan peoples were:
a. created by the Devil to corrupt mankind, b. well adapted to ages mass warfare,
c. more moralistic than one-god religions, d. not well suited to foster
militaristic obedience.
17. Eliminated
18. According to the lectures, during ancient, medireview and early modern
times, critical thinking about religion was: a. severely suppressed, b. beyond
the emotional courage of humans, c. not a significant part of culture, d.
considered extremely dangerous, e. all of the above.
19. According to the video, DNA evidence: a. shows we are not descended from
apes or monkeys, b. does not help us understand where our ancestors came from,
c. shows that we were "created" rather than evolved from primitive
forms, d. shows paths of ancestral migration out of Africa to other places.
20. According to the first lecture, most of the stories from ancient cultures: a. have been well supported by scholarly evidence, b. have little or no supportive evidence that would pass current scholarly standards, c. are solidly based on logic and what we know of specific realities during early times.
EUH -- 8:30 Class Quiz 2
Textbook questions:
1. In their transition pages from near eastern to western civilization, the textbook authors emphasize the major new and very different ideas that the Greeks contributed to the West were explanations of the world that were: a. naturalistic, b. monotheistic, c. evangelical, d. militaristic, e. pagan.
2. "Skeptical and rational" ways of thinking were first introduced in history by:
a. Hebrews, b. Romans, c. Egyptians, d. Sumerians, e. Greeks.
3. Eliminated
4. The height of Athenian democracy came under the leadership of : a. Alexander,
b. Aristotle, c. Pisistratus, d. Plato, e. Pericles
5. The only areas of Greek life where women were given even a modest closeness to equality with men were: a. private and political life, b. mythology, painting and literature,
c. legal and sexual areas, d. philosophy and sciences.
6. The long boxed insert on Athenian Democracy attacks the system because it is rule by:
a. tyrants and dictators, b. snobs and eggheads, c. religion and
spiritualism, d. ignorance and inferiority.
7. In the insert on the ideas of the drama character Medea: a: the poetic lesbian life is celebrated, b. the glories of Athena are praised, c. the fate of women is bemoaned,
d. spiritual excitement is described, e. the life of the courtesan is described.
8. Solon and Clisthenes were famous for: a. the defense of Greece at Marathon,
b. the first radical rhetoric and philosophy, c. extending democracy, d. defending the rights of women, e. satirical plays and poems.
9. Athena, Artemis, Aphrodite and Ares were: a. famous women of Athens, b. gods,
c. leading poets of the 4th century B.C., d. wives of Pericles, e. lesbian and gay poets.
10. The god of nature, fertility, wine, drunkenness and sexual abandon was: a. Sappho,
b. Zeus, c. Apollo, c. Poseidon, d. Olympia, e. Dionysus.
11. The textbook describes the "center of aristocratic social life" as: a. sacrifices and business finances in the temples, b. the Parthenon, c. houses of "ill repute",
d. drinking parties.
Lecture, video, blackboard items:
12. The lecture two weeks ago stated that the best way to remember your history reading and lectures is to: a. take note of the names in bold type, b. make outlines, c. use geography and dating, d. become political.
13. Eliminated
14. According to the lecture, during the Dark Ages, much or most of the written works of ancient Greece were preserved by: a. Russian scholars, b. the Muslims, c. the Sumerians , d. Persians, e. English scholars.
15. In the lecture last week, civilizations in ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, modern Holland, England and USA were contrasted with: a. ancient Near Eastern civilizations,
b. medireview Catholicism, c. Islamic civilization, d. Soviet civilization, e. all of the above.
16. Anaxagoras and Anaximander are known for: a. metaphysics and ethics,
b. democratic reforms in Athens, c. heliocentric and evolutionary theories, d. political science and economics, e. statues in the Parthenon.
17. Aristotle was known for analysis of: a. many constitutions, b. Orphic mystery cults,
c. The Republic, d. explaining the idea of "hubris", e. conquering the middle east.
18. In the lecture on the Athens video, the colossal Earth Mother fertility goddess appears as: a. the city's patron-defender warrior, b. the goddess of beauty, c. Queen of the Olympic gods, d. Goddess of Love.
19. According to the lecture, video and blackboard, the man who boasted that the Athenian victory over the far more numerous Persians was due to "democracy" was:
a. Socrates, b. Plato, c. Pisistratus, d. Pericles, Aristotle.
20. According to the lecture and blackboard, the ancient school of Pythagoreans of the 6th century BCE originated: a. theatrical tragedies and comedies, b. trigonometry,
c. evolution and astrology, d. metaphysics and ethics.
EUH 8:30 Class Quiz 3.
Textbook questions:
1. The first wave of Greek philosophers (unlike Socrates and Plato) concentrated on:
a. political ideas, b. nature and the cosmos, c. ethics and justice, d. history.
2. Regarding the analysis of the fall of Rome, the textbook authors: a.
blame the lack of an industrial and economic revolution, b, blame Persian
superiority, c. blame democracy, d. were surprised it lasted as long as it
did.
3. The explanation that the fall of Rome was inevitable due to its being selfish, evil, and corrupt was presented in The City of God by: a. St Thomas Aquinas, b. St Augustine,
c. St. Jerome, d. St. Paul of Tarsus, e. Pope Leo 9th.
4. In 394 CE, Emperor Theodosius: a. abolished pagan cults, b. eliminated the pagan Roman calendar, c. made Christianity the state religion, d. all of the above, e. none of the above.
5. The spliting of the Roman Empire into East and West took place under:
a. Diocletian and Constantine, b. Caesar and Augustus, c. Claudius and Nero,
d. Marcus Aurelius.
6. Besides their roads and military achievements, the greatest secular contribution of Rome to western civilization was: a. philosophy, b. legal theory, c. science, d. theater.
7. The most famous critics of Greek democracy were: a. Pericles and Aristotle, b. Dionysius and Aeschylus, c. Socrates and Plato, d. Hesiod and Homer.
8. The two famous Hellenistic (after 338) schools of philosophy that (in opposite ways) "sought the happiness of individuals" were: a. Epicureans and Stoics, b. materialists and idealists, c. sophists and Socratics, d. atomists and Pythagoreans.
9. The conquered ethnic group within the Roman Empire that used religion to rebel many disastrous times was: a. the Greeks, b. the Jews, c. the Egyptians, d. the Arabs,
e. the Spanish.
10. Excerpted in an insert, the famous play by Aristophanes where the women of Athens and Sparta go on a sex strike to end a long war was: a. the Persian Women, b. Lysistrata, c. Medea, d. Oedipus Rex, e. Odyssey.
Lectures, videos, blackboard, discussions:
11. According to the handout on Jesus: a. he was merely a carpenter, b. he was not a learned clergyman, c. Nazareth did not exist in Biblical times, d. Jesus was from Nazareth.
Page 2 -- 8:30 Class -- Quiz 3.
12. Thursday, on the blackboard many words with the same root were written to show:
a. that Greek is the basic language of the arts, b. that Roman society was very patriarchal,
c. that the coming of Christ was prophesied, d. that Hebrew is like English.
13. In the Republic, the way that Socrates defined "justice" was: a. to describe what each occupation class would do in a perfect society, c. that it was always the justice of the powers that be, d. it was rule by "all the people", e. it was subjective or "in the eye of the beholder":
14. According to the lecture, the sophists were accused by Plato of: a. being relativists,
b. teaching opportunism, c. teaching mere rhetoric, d. having no objective definitions,
e. all of the above.
15. According to the lecture, the Greek form of love called "Eros" was: a. unselfish compassion for those who were not beautiful, b. the love of God for suffering mortals,
c. the love for natural ideal beauty types, d. all of the above.
16. According to the lectures, Classical Greek objects of human
"beauty", "love" and art were: a. bio-generated
templates derived from elegant, healthy-shaped mating choices,
b. spiritual visions not derived from "natural selection", c. experiences sent from God.
17. Greek "humanism" was focused on: a. the equality of men and women, b. love for the wretched and poor of humanity, c. human perfectibility and the celebration of natural life,
d. living for "the life after death".
18. According to the professors on the video, the Jesus of the Gospels was: a. a very unique figure, b. one of very many similar savior-teachers of the time, c. an important threat to the Roman Empire.
19. Eliminated
20. According to the video, Christianity first gained tolerance in the Roman Empire by the Edict of Milan (313 AD) issued by: a. Diocletian, b. Augustus, c. Constantine,
d. Theodosius, e. Augustine.
EUH 8:30 Class -- Quiz 4.
Textbook:
1. In the text, the medireview occupational group that was divided into "regular" and "secular" was: a. the nobility, b. the peasantry, c. the townspeople, d. the clergy,
e. the military.
2. In the late Middle Ages, the rise in the power of kings, the use of heavy artillery and infantry, the effects of crop failures resulted in: a. increasing bondage for the peasantry,
b. sudden decline of the middle classes, c. economic and political decline of the landed nobility, d. decline in the power of the papacy.
3. Eastern Emperor Comnenus, Pope Urban II and the Seljuks were leading actors in the onset of: a. the fall of Rome, b. the sack of Rome in 410, c. the First Crusade, d. the end of the Macedonian Empire of Alexander.
4. Spain, Persia, Arabia, and Berber lands were all: a. parts of the Empire of Alexander,
b. conquered by Julius Caesar, c. the domain of the Persian Empire, d.
conquered by Muslims.
5. Shi'a and Sunnis were: a. the two main groups of Eastern Christians, b. rival Muslims, c. Greek mystery religions, d. medireview monks.
6. Franks, Visigoths, and Anglo-Saxons were: a. Roman legions, b. Middle-eastern Muslims, c. barbarians, d. Greek warriors.
7. As Rome fell, the part of the Roman Empire that was not overrun by barbarian invasions from the north was: a. Byzantium, b. Gaul, c. Italy, d. Greece, e. Spain.
8. According to the text, video and lecture, in Arabic the word "Islam" means:
a. holy war, b. the one god, c. submission, d. God is great, e. recitation.
9. Eliminated
10. Chastity, poverty and obedience were the ideals of: a. Muslim clergy, b.
monastic life,
c. Roman soldiers, d. Arabian sultans.
11. According to the lecture and the blackboard scripture from Matthew, xxi:
a. "the kingdom of God" may be "given to another nation", b. the world will end when Christians fight Muslims, c. Muslims cannot eat Pork, d. the Messiah will come from the desert.
12. According to the video, Empire of Faith, idolatry and ancestor worship were: a. adopted by the Muslims, b. a great danger to Constantine, c. abolished when Mecca fell to Muslims in 630 CE, d. the dominant practices in ancient Persia.
13. According to the lecture, the story of the life of Mohammad: a was copied from the Moses myth of the Hebrews, b. was based on many authentic documents from the real time of his life, c. was completely original as a story, d. actually did happen just the way it is told today.
14. According to the lecture, Muslims have always believed that since the time of Christ:
a. all non-Muslims have been doomed to Hell, b. "God spoke only to Mohammad",
c. no one has gone to "paradise", d. Christians have not gone to Heaven.
15. According to the Islam video, all Muslims are required to: a. pray facing Jerusalem,
b. make a pilgrimage to Medina, c. participate in military jihad, d. pray
5 times each day facing Mecca.
16. According to the blackboard and lecture, the Christian Churches were:
a. anti-militarist until 1095, b. at war with Islam from the days of Mohammad,
c. not respected by Mohammad, d. not an influence on Mohammad.
17. According to the blackboard, eternal hellfire is threatened more than 100 times in:
a. the New Testament, b. the first five books of the Old Testament, c.
the Qur'an,
d. The Origin of Species.
18. According to the lecture, Muslims: a. were not warlike in the 7th and 8th centuries,
b. have been at war since the time of the Prophet, c. conquered half the western world without military campaigns, d. do not necessarily go to Paradise when killed in jihad.
19. According to the text, video, lecture and blackboard, the beginning of
the Islamic calendar is: a. the birth-date of Mohammad, b. the year Mecca was
conquered by the Muslims, c. the year of Christ's birth, d. the year 622
C.E.
20. On the board and in the text and lecture, Alaric the Visigoth and Attila
the Hun sacked Rome on the following dates respectively: a. 311 and 325, b.
410 and 452,
c. 338 and 394, d. 575 and 579.
EUH 8:30 Class Quiz 5.
Textbook questions:
1. Italy survived the difficult period 1300-1450 better than northern European nations because: a. the climate was warmer there, b. of the benefits of Italy's natural mineral resources, c. of its Eurasian trade, d. of its powerful monarchs.
2. The rapid development of "secular values", organized capitalism, revival of classical culture, creativity of individuals and the decline of feudalism were the main characteristics of: a. the Reconquista, b. the Italian Renaissance, c. the Reformation,
d. the Resorgimento.
3. The man who translated the Bible into German and was declared an "outlaw" by the Holy Roman Empire was: a. Machiavelli, b. Frederick the Great, c. Martin Luther,
d. Galileo.
4. The movement in the 1500's that rebelled against corruption and rigid bureaucracy in the Catholic Church was: a. the Reformation, b. the Renaissance, c. the Enlightenment,
d. the Scientific Revolution.
5. When a ruler had to choose between being loved or feared, he should choose being feared. This was in the political theory of: a. Columbus, b. Luther, c. Pope Innocent III,
d. Niccolo Machiavelli.
6. The most historically important invention of the 1400's was made by: a. Machiavelli,
b. Gutenberg, c. Galileo, d. Isaac Newton, e. Francisco Pizarro.
7. Humanism in the Renaissance was primarily: a. atheism, b. agnosticism,
c. Protestantism, d. studies and creativity in the humanities, e. Islamic philosophy.
8. The first oceanic explorers (in the 1400's) were the: a. Italians, b.
Portuguese,
c. Spanish, d. French, e. English.
9. The greatest silver-mining industry in the Spanish Empire was in: a. Peru, b. Mexico,
c. Hispanola, d. Cuba, e. Santo Domingo.
10. A massive and lasting price-inflation trend occurred: a. after the invention of steam engines, b. because of the Reformation, c. because of the feudal system in Europe,
d. because of mining in the New World.
Lectures, videos, blackboard items.
11. Tordesillas was: a. the man who led the conquest of the Inca Empire, b.
he who defeated the Aztecs, c. first man to circumnavigate the globe, d. a division
of the earth.
12. The 800 year struggle to take Portugal and Spain from the Moors was called:
a. the Renaissance, b. the Reformation, c. the Reconquista, d. the Requirement.
13. According to the lectures, in western civilizations: a. religious beliefs kept people from understanding what was really happening in history, b. religious beliefs are childish, naive and totally unscientific, c. religious beliefs terrorize people into mental and emotional obedience, d. religious beliefs are a primitive escape from reality,
e. all of the above.
14. After 1453, the Ottomans and Arabs: a. controlled access to the Asia trade,
b. were in a religious rivalry with Christians, c. provided causes for the age of oceanic exploration, d. all of the above, e. none of the above.
15. Columbus was turned away by Isabella's Commission at Salamanca because:
a. he was an agent of the Portuguese government, b. he was a Protestant, c.
he was of Jewish descent, d. his geography was imaginary.
16. In the 1492 video, the Columbus' reference to "burnings" was about: a. his desire to sail west to the Indies, b. the Moors, c. witches, d. Jews, e. Hell-fire.
17. In the Sword and the Cross video, the great serpent god that the Aztecs though Cortes was was: a. Tenochtitlan, b. Atualpa, c. Quetzlcoatl, d. Moctazuma, e. Ahura Mazda.
18. Encomienda was: a. the conquest of Mexico, b. the leader of the Aztecs, c. the Spanish Empire, d. the new world manorial system.
19. The man who conquered the Inca Empire with 140 Spaniards was: a. Columbus,
b. Hernan Cortes, c. Francisco Pizarro, d. Bartholemew de las Casas, e. Amerigo Vespucci.
20. Eliminated.
Textbook:
1. In this week's readings on the evolution of models for western governments, two nations are sharply contrasted: a. France and England, b. England and America,
c. England and Germany, d. England and Spain.
2. The theory that government exists to protect "life, liberty and property" was expounded by: a. Thomas Hobbes, b. Charles I, c. John Locke, d. Rene Descartes.
3. On the European continent, the doctrine of the "absolute" and "divine right of kings" was best expounded (insert in textbook) by: a. John Locke, b. Oliver Cromwell,
c. Martin Luther, d. Bishop Bossuet.
4. The government that was based on a "social contract" and a "Bill of Rights" was established in 1689 by: a. William of Orange, b. Oliver Cromwell, c. Louis 14th,
d. Charles II, e. James II.
5. For James I and Charles I, the book, A Trew Law of Free Monarchies (1598) meant:
a. the "social contract" of king and people, b. civil liberties for all, c. kings free from parliaments and traditional laws of custom, d. freedom for all forms of religion.
6. The most aggressive enemies of James I and Charles I in England were: a. Roman Catholics, b. Cavaliers, c. Anglicans, d. Puritans, e. Episcopalians.
7. The famous and original political treatise, Leviathan (1651), was written by:
a. Oliver Cromwell, b. John Locke, c. Thomas Hobbes, d. James I, e. Charles I.
8. The great model of the supreme absolute monarch was: a. Charles II, b.
Louis 14th,
c. William of Orange, d. George III.
9. The great English Civil War (or Puritan Revolution) took place during the: a. 1640's,
b. 1680's, c. 1650's, d. 1620's.
10. The famous author of Paradise Lost was quoted in the textbook insert as defending the freedom to print books because they give hope of an after-life. He was: a. Luther,
b. John Milton, c. Thomas Hobbes, d. Henry the 8th.
11. The Glorious Revolution of representative and liberal government (1689) brought to power: a. Cromwell, b. William and Mary, c. Charles II, d. John Locke.
12. The aristocracy and parlement were very successfully controlled by the king in:
a. the England of Charles I, b. the realm of Louis 14th, c. the reign of William and Mary,
d. the reign of James II.
Lectures, video, blackboard.
13. According to the lecture: a. Luther claimed that "the Trinity" was a false doctrine of the Catholic Church, b. by 1500's, the Roman Catholic Church had created a giant profiteering protection racket by exploiting the fear of death, c. the early Protestants were more corrupt than the Roman Catholics, d. the Reformation created peace in Europe.
14. Eliminated.
15. In the Cromwell video, the king needed to use Parliament to raise funds:
a. a. for a war against Spain, b. to defend against the Scots, c. to suppress the Anglicans,
d. to help the Irish in their war.
16. According to the lecture, the group that by 1950 would come to own 80% of the world's wealth was the: a. Catholics, b. Muslims, c. Quakers, d. Protestants.
17. In the 1640's, the great leader of the defense of English common land rights, "democracy" and the rights of Parliament was: a. Thomas Hobbes, b. William of Orange,
c. Cromwell, d. John Locke.
18. Each individual's "calling from God" was the essential concept in: a. Catholic laymen, b. the French aristocracy, c. the Protestant Work Ethic, d. the Enlightenment.
19. The "Treasury of Merit" dogma was used: a. by the Puritans of England, b. by Cromwell, c. by the popes, d. by William and Mary.
20. According to the lecture, Luther claimed salvation was: a. earned by
hard work and contributions to the church, b. gained by
"indulgences", c. a free gift, d. only possible in the
Catholic Church.