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Quiz for Working with Evidence: Perceptions of Outsiders in the Ancient World

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. Which of these did Herodotus see as a distinctive feature of the Egyptians (Source 3.1)?

Their willingness to adopt foreign customs

Their tendency to do the opposite of what was normal elsewhere

Their complete lack of religious belief and practice

Their exclusively female priesthood

1. Which of these did Herodotus see as a distinctive feature of the Egyptians (Source 3.1)?

2. Which of these did Herodotus see as a distinctive feature of the Persians (Source 3.1)?

Their willingness to adopt foreign customs

Their tendency to do the opposite of what was normal elsewhere

Their complete lack of religious belief and practice

Their exclusively female priesthood

2. Which of these did Herodotus see as a distinctive feature of the Persians (Source 3.1)?

3. Why did Tacitus believe it likely that the Germanic tribes were indigenous to Central Europe (Source 3.2)?

Because he found the region so cold, rugged, and unpleasant

Because he saw the Germanic tribes as different than all other peoples

Because that was what was claimed in Germanic myths and legends

Because he had discovered ancient artifacts that supported this theory

3. Why did Tacitus believe it likely that the Germanic tribes were indigenous to Central Europe (Source 3.2)?

4. Which of the following did Tacitus find particularly praiseworthy (Source 3.2)?

Germanic cities

Germanic marriage norms

Germanic religious practices

Germanic farming

4. Which of the following did Tacitus find particularly praiseworthy (Source 3.2)?

5. According to the historians Sima Qian and Tacitus, what uncivilized trait did the Xiongnu and the Germanic tribes share (Sources 3.2 and 3.3)?

Neither group engaged in trade.

Neither group trained in the art of war.

Neither group had a religion.

Neither group lived in cities.

5. According to the historians Sima Qian and Tacitus, what uncivilized trait did the Xiongnu and the Germanic tribes share (Sources 3.2 and 3.3)?