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Weekly Quiz - 12/29/99

1. Which area is not in the running for the oldest writing/alphabet?
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Greece
India

2. Fire saved many samples of the writing (including 660 medical documents translated in the 20's) of which culture?
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Greece
Rome

3. The dry climate preserved much of the writing about daily life and ordinary people's legal affairs of which civilization?
Egypt
Mesopotamia
Greece
Rome

4. Boustrephedon refers to writing written
in columns
left to right in one line and right to left the next
from left to right
from right to left

5. The word "alphabet" comes from
The first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet
The first two letters of the Roman alphabet
the first two letters of the Etruscan alphabet
The first two letters of the Greek alphabet

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