Question 1

The Phaistos Disk contains ______ .
Correct Answer: 	
pictographic and alphabetic forms 

Question 2

The _______ as a text form came to be used increasingly from A.D. 1 to A.D. 400, partly because Christians wished to distinguish their writings from pagan formats of writing.
Correct Answer: 	
codex 

Question 3

Around the first century B.C., the Roman alphabetthe forerunner of the one we use todaycontained twenty-three letters. The letters J, V, and W were added ________.
Correct Answer: 	
during the Middle Ages 

Question 4	
	
An alphabet is a series of simple visual symbols that represent ______.
Correct Answer: 	
speech sounds

Question 5

The Greeks modified Phoenician letter shapes by making them ________.
Correct Answer: 	
more geometrically structured 

Question 6

In the fourth century B.C., Alexander the Great expanded Greek culture throughout the known world. Writing became more important than ever because_______.
Correct Answer: 	
an oral culture could no longer manage knowledge and information 

Question 7
	
Around 1500 B.C., Semitic workers in the Sinai desert developed an acrophonic adaptation of Egyptian hieroglyphics. In an acrophonic text, pictographs are used to represent ________.
Correct Answer: 	
the initial sound of the object depicted 

Question 8

The Latin alphabet came to the Romans from Greece by way of the ________, who dominated the Italian peninsula in the first millennium B.C.
Correct Answer: 	
Etruscans 

Question 9

When the Greeks adopted Phoenician writing, the system employed a directionality called boustrophedon. Eventually, however, the Greeks adopted a ______ direction for their writing that has continued to this day.
Correct Answer: 	
left-to-right 

Question 10

Phoenicia of the second millennium B.C. developed a ______ society that contributed to the alphabetic system.
Correct Answer: 	
merchant