Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment (Humanities)
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Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
Question 1 Which of the following rulers included a giant new Hagia Sophia in his massive campaign to rebuild Constantinople?
Question 1 options:
a) Theodosius I
b) Theodoric the Great
c) Constantine
d) Justinian
Question 2 Where did the Roman mystery cult of Mithras originate?
Question 2 options:
a) Britain
b) China
c) Egypt
d) Persia
Question 3
Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
Which of the following identifies the Jewish philosophical sect that included a group of Jews who lived at
Qumran and are associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Question 3 options:
a) Sanhedrin
b) Pharisees
c) Essenes
d) Sadducees
Question 4 What happened to the messages, or "recitations," that Muhammad received from God through the agency of Gabriel?
Question 4 options:
a) They were inscribed on golden tablets.
b) They were forgotten for centuries.
c) They were collected to form the scriptures of Islam.
d) They were confirmed to be the exact same as the Hebrew Bible.
Question 5 Who served as bishop of Hippo and wrote Confessions
and The
City of God
?
Question 5 options:
a) Jerome
b) Augustine
c) Ambrose
d) Boethius
Question 6 What was Constantine's most important act regarding to Christianity?
Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
Question 6 options:
a) moving his capital to Constantinople
b) persecuting pagans
c) openly rejecting Christianity
d) calling an ecumenical council
Question 7 To what does the term caliph refer?
Question 7 options:
a) Muhammad's series of successors who assumed political and religious authority following the death of the Prophet
b) the series of mosques built by the Prophet in the city of Medina
c) the first recitation of in the Qur'an
, the scripture of Islam
d) Muhammad's ancestors who protected the Ka'ba in pre-Islamic Mecca
Question 8 Where did the Umayyads establish the School of Translation, which was responsible for spreading translations of classical Greek literature and philosophy throughout the West?
Question 8 options:
a) Granada
b) Córdob
c) Seville
d) Toledo
Question 9 Jerome translated the Hebrew Bible and the Greek books of the New Testament into Latin, the version of
the Bible known as the __________.
Question 9 options:
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Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
a) Old Testament
b) Torah
c) Apocrypha
d) Vulgate
Question 10 The term "evangelist" is derived from the Greek evangelos
, meaning __________.
Question 10 options:
a) first and last
b) bearer of good
c) seeing together
d) example or figure
Question 11 Which feature of the typical early Christian church housed the altar where the sacrament of the Holy Communion was performed?
Question 11 options:
a) apse
b) clerestory
c) nave
d) narthex
Question 12 In what meter were the early Christian hymns written?
Question 12 options:
Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
a) dactylic hexameter
b) blank verse
c) iambic pentameter
d) iambic tetrameter
Question 13 A seated Buddha from Yungang, Shaanxi, China, exhibits the Dhyana mudra. This gesture represents __________.
Question 13 options:
a) the emperor Ashoka
b) meditation and balance
c) Confucius
d) the bodhisattva
Question 14 According to Josephus, a member of the philosophical sect known as the Sadducees would most likely__________.
Question 14 options:
a) have lived in the community at Qumran
b) adhere to severe discilpine
c) be an aristocratic priest or high priest
d) be a scribe associated with the masses
Question 15 In the typical early Christian church, by what name was the entrance hall known?
Question 15 options:
Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
a) clerestory
b) nave
c) narthex
d) apse
Question 16 Which Jewish historian wrote Jewish War,
outlining Jewish history from the rise of the Maccabees to the destruction of the temple and fall of Masada?
Question 16 options:
a) Pompey
b) Maccabean
c) Flavius Silva
d) Josephus
Question 17 Which Christian symbol was adopted because its name (
ichthys
) is an acronym of "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior" in Greek?
Question 17 options:
a) alpha and omega
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b) anchor
c) good shepherd
d) fish
Question 18 Constantine's capital Constantinople was founded on the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium and is now the present-day city of__________.
Question 18 options:
a) Split
b) Nicaea
c) Damascus
d) Istanbul
Question 19 What was an early Roman church with a long nave and three shorter arms (apse and the arms of the transept) called?
Question 19 options:
a) a clerestory
b) a Vulgate basilica
c) a Pantheon church
d) a Latin cross basilica
Question 20 In early Buddhist art, what do things such as the wheel, footprints, and banyan trees symbolically represent?
Question 20 options:
a) the Buddha
b) evil forces
Chapter 4 Practice Test--Assignment
c) Buddhist scholars
d) the dharma