Quiz 006

Episode 6 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 006: The Pros and Cons of Wisdom. See what you remember about Ancient Egypt’s wisdom literature by clicking “START” below!

1 / 10

The earlier text this show covers, “The Instructions of Amenemope,” dates from the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. In approximately which century were these instructions written?

The 100s BCE

The 1100s BCE

The 3100s BCE

The 100s CE

The 2100s BCE

2 / 10

Bronze and Iron Age wisdom literature generally identifies women as:

Men's only hope for moral rectitude.

Having descended from a different evolutionary line.

Having two souls, one upright and the other cursed.

Deceitful, sexualized, and untrustworthy.-

Predisposed to ethnic feuding.

3 / 10

While many of the maxims in Ancient Egyptian wisdom literature could come from any other period’s wisdom literature, this episode showed how Ancient Egyptian wisdom literature demonstrates a particular preoccupation with:

Avoiding polygamy.

Mercilessness in combat.

Rules governing social hierarchy.

Embalmment.

Boundary markers.

4 / 10

The structure of Ancient Egyptian wisdom literature often involves:

Scattered incantations from The Book of the Dead.

Interspersed prophecies related to doomsday.

Interspersed short lessons in mathematics.

A framing narrative of a father giving advice to a son.

A sprinkling of folk songs recounting the instructions that have been offered.

5 / 10

Which book of the Old Testament has the greatest quantity of parallels with the instructions of Amenemope and ‘Onchsheshonqy?

Hosea

Samuel

Proverbs

Obadiah

Nahum

6 / 10

The later text in this episode, “The Instructions of ‘Onchsheshonqy,” was written in the last days of the Ptolemaic period. How does this text reflect the period in which it was written?

It playfully mocks the vestiges of Persian culture still lingering in parts of the Middle Nile.

It reverently records the rise of the Roman Republic and laments the Republic's social wars.

It contains an unusual degree of sadness and lamentation about the course of history.

It is filled with optimistic prophetic visions of the coming restoration of Egypt's native sovereignty.

It has dozens of satirical references to Ptolemy XII.

7 / 10

A common piece of advice in ancient wisdom literature is:

All of these.

Be kind to the disenfranchised.

Be honest in your dealings with others.

Think before you speak.

Avoid fools and keep company with the wise.

8 / 10

How are Ancient Egyptian wisdom literature, and many other types of wisdom literature structured?

They are always divided in two, with secular in one half and religious in the other.

With animal fables at the front, and it varies from there.

Very loosely around themes.

The proverbs are grouped from shortest to longest.

The proverbs are grouped form longest to shortest.

9 / 10

The later text this episode covers, “The Instructions of ‘Onchsheshonqy,” was produced toward the end of the Ptolemaic period. Thus, around which year was our manuscript of “The Instructions of ‘Onchsheshonqy” written?

70 BCE

170 CE

1070 BCE

570 BCE

1770 BCE

10 / 10

What kind of a worldview does wisdom literature generally articulate?

A hedonistic one.

A conservative one.

A bleak and despairing one.

One preoccupied with ontology.

A progressive one.

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