Questions in this quiz: Ancient Mesopotamia

Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria across the Tigris-Euphrates valley. Cuneiform, ziggurats, the Code of Hammurabi, Gilgamesh, Nebuchadnezzar, and Mesopotamian contributions to law and mathematics.

1. The Sumerian King List records that after kingship 'descended from heaven,' it first resided in which city? — Options: Uruk, Ur, Eridu, Lagash
2. The standard Akkadian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, recovered from Ashurbanipal's library, is traditionally attributed to which scribe-priest? — Options: Sin-leqi-unninni, Shulgi of Ur, Berossus, Enheduanna
3. The Code of Hammurabi was rediscovered in 1901 not in Babylon, but at a site in modern Iran where it had been carried as war booty. Which city was that? — Options: Persepolis, Susa, Ecbatana, Pasargadae
4. The relief at the top of the Stele of Hammurabi shows the king receiving the symbols of authority from which deity? — Options: Marduk, Shamash, Anu, Enlil
5. Plimpton 322, a famous Old Babylonian clay tablet, has been interpreted as a table of what? — Options: Lunar eclipse predictions, Pythagorean triples, Compound interest schedules, Grain ration allotments
6. The Assyrian capital sacked in 612 BCE by an alliance of Medes and Babylonians, ending the Neo-Assyrian Empire, was which city? — Options: Ashur, Nimrud, Nineveh, Dur-Sharrukin
7. Which Neo-Babylonian king, who reigned just before Cyrus the Great's conquest, is notorious in cuneiform sources for neglecting Marduk and spending years at the Arabian oasis of Tayma? — Options: Nabopolassar, Neriglissar, Nabonidus, Evil-Merodach