Multiple Choice Quiz


1	Abraham was born in
		A)	Haran (Syria)
		B)	Egypt
		C)	Ur
		D)	Ugarit


2	The Epic of Gilgamesh is important because
		A)	it is a Mesopotamian source for the story of Gilgamesh, Abraham's father
		B)	it recounts a flood story with striking similarities to the Genesis account of the Flood
		C)	it refers to God as Yahweh
		D)	it is the oldest surviving written text from Mesopotamia


3	The Law Code of Hammurabi is important because
		A)	because of its similarities with Biblical law
		B)	because it freed the Israelites from their exile in Babylon
		C)	because it borrows from the 10 Commandments
		D)	it shows Hammurabi receiving the Law from Moses


4	Among the Israelite or Jewish ideas that have affinities with Egyptian culture is:
		A)	the use of the pyramid as a burial site
		B)	universal access to the innermost sanctum of the temple
		C)	the concept of divine righteousness
		D)	the story of the destruction of the Egyptian army at the Red Sea


5	The Canaanite god depicted in the Hebrew Bible as Yahweh's chief competitor for Israelite devotion is:
		A)	El
		B)	Baal
		C)	Marduk
		D)	Ugarit


6	The first mention of Israel in non-biblical sources is:
		A)	in the Gilgamesh epic
		B)	Moses in the Court History of the Pharoahs
		C)	in a thirteenth-century bce inscription of Pharaoh Merneptah of Egypt
		D)	by the Greek historian Herodotus


7	The last Davidic king over Judah was
		A)	Solomon
		B)	Ahab
		C)	Jeremiah
		D)	Zedekiah


8	The Persian emperor who permitted the Judean exiles in Babylon to return to Jerusalem was:
		A)	Cyrus
		B)	Sennacherib
		C)	Rameses II
		D)	Antiochus IV


9	The second-century revolt that succeeded in freeing Judea from Syria was led by
		A)	Daniel
		B)	David
		C)	Esther
		D)	the Maccabees


10	The second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by
		A)	Nebuchadnezzar
		B)	Titus
		C)	Antiochus IV
		D)	Herod the Great

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