MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE PART TWO:

STUDENT GENERATED MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS THAT COULD APPEAR ON THE EXAM:

1. Which one of the following is not a part of the Hindu caste system?

A. Vaisyas

B. Brahmin

C. Ramayana

D. Kshatriyas

2. What was the Buddha’s original name?

A. Darius

B. Alexander

C. Kong Fuzi

D. Shihuongdi

E. Siddhartha Guatama

3. What was the name of the man we think of as Confucius?

A. Darius

B. Alexander

C. Kong Fuzi

D. Shihuongdi

E. Siddhartha Guatama

4. What was the first function of writing?

A. poetry

B. myth-making

C. laws

D. accounting

5. Who was considered to have the largest of the world’s empires in 500 BCE?

A. The Persians

B. The Greeks

C. The Chinese

D. The Romans

6. Which civilization had three story houses, well organized streets, luxurious bathrooms, and indoor plumbing?

A. Olmec

B. Norte Chico

C. Oildale

D. Mohenjo Daro

7. Which one is not true about Alexander the Great?

A. His father was king

B. He died in his 60s.

C. He established many cities.

D. He spread Greek culture.

8. Who fought in the Peloponnesian Wars?

A. Romans and Egyptians

B. Pellops and Nesians

C. Athenians and Spartans

D. Romans and Persians

9. Rome’s first emperor, Octavian, was later known as

A. Caligula

B. Nero

C. Augustus

D. Claudius Maximus

10. What is the most common depiction found in Cave Art done by the first peoples?

A, humans

B. gods

C. plants

D. animals

11. What order, from highest to lowest, does the Hindu caste system follow?

A. Brahmin—Kshatriyas—Vaisyas—Shudras

B. Shudras--Brahmin—Kshatriyas—Vaisyas—

C. Brahmin— Shudras--Kshatriyas—Vaisyas—

D. Kshatriyas—Brahmin—Shudras--Vaisyas—

12. What were the Four Passing Sights of the Buddha?

A. an old man, a sick person, a dead body, and a monk with shaven head

B. a woman having a baby, a man crying, a dying horse, and a monk

C. a woman dancing, a man killing another man, a banker, and a thief

D. an old man, a sick person, a dead chicken in the road, and a monk with shaven head

13. Which of the following was not a cause of the collapse of the Roman Empire?

A. a lack of legalized Roman citizens

B. the empire was conquered, taken over by another nation.

C. a lack of leadership, with 26 different emperor killed in a 50 year period

D. an epidemic

14. What Chinese dynasty established the political patterns that continued to govern China until 1911?

A. Qin

B. Tang

C. Xhou

D. Han

15. Which site has been called the “world’s oldest temple”?

A. Gobekli Tepe

B. Mohenjo Daro

C. The Parthenon

D. The Palace of Knossos

16. What is one reason that Clovis culture may have disappeared?

A. The people may have hunted the animals to extinction and vanished as their food sources disappeared.

B. A plague clearly wiped them out.

C. They were probably destroyed by an ice age.

17. What type of writing used angled tools to write small symbols on clay tablets?

A. phonetic alphabet

B. hieroglyph

C. cursive, but the ancient world knew it as “pretty connected flowy writing.”

D. cuneiform

18. Which of the following is not one of the Three Ancient Hindu Period”

A. The pre-Vedic Period.

B. The Vedic Period

C. The Pre-Epic Period

D. The Epic Period.

19. Which mythical creation story does not match?

A. China—P’an Ku

B. Scandanavia—Odin

C. Hebrews—Adam and Eve

D. Mesopotamia—Rabbit Boy