HISTORY 306
SAMPLE MID-TERM EXAM
The Mid-Term Examination will be held on Friday, February 2, at the regular class time and place. The exam will last 48 minutes. You will write your answers directly on the exam itself, rather than on a bluebook. The exam will cover all the reading assigned through the week of
January 29 and all classes through January 31. The following is a sample, designed to help you prepare for the exam by showing you the format that the exam will have and giving you an idea of the kind of questions that might be asked. As you prepare, make sure you consider the assigned reading
and the material on the class website (http://isthmia.ohio-state.edu/teg/hist306), as well as what has been discussed in class; some of the questions will be drawn from the readings, and if you have not read the assignments, you will probably have some difficulty in doing well on the exam.
Part A. Short Questions (40%). Answer 10 of the following questions in the space provided.
(Remember that these are sample questions.)
- Define uniformitarianism ____________________.
- The American School in Athens was founded about the year _________.
- Who was the "father" of Mesopotamian archaeology? __________________
- Who deciphered the languages on the Rosetta Stone? _____________________
- _____________________ was one of the major sites of the Neolithic in Cyprus.
- Name one method of absolute dating in classical archaeology. ____________________
- ___________________ carried off much of the sculpture from the Athenian Acropolis in 1801.
- The primary excavator of Knossos was ___________________.
- Which foreign school has been responsible for the excavations at Olympia? _________________
- ____________________ financed the excavation that found the tomb of King Tut?
- Recording vertical measurements is usually accomplished using a
_______________________.
Part B. Short Essay (20%). Write a short essay on ONE of
the following questions. The following are samples.
1. Discuss the importance of Pitt Rivers and
Mortimer Wheeler for the development of modern stratigraphic
excavation.
2. Explain in some detail how typology is used
as a dating method in archaeoloy.
Part C. Essay (40%). Write an essay on ONE of the following questions. Be sure to explain yourself and provide evidence to demonstrate your answer. Support your generalizations with specific evidence. The following are samples.
1. Based on what you have learned in this
course, was Heinrich Schliemann a crazy liar or a visionary creator of
modern archaeology? Explain.
2. Discuss the relationship between archaeology and the development of "science" in the 19th century.
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