Question 1
The Dead Sea Scrolls
a. refer to Moses' testament as the Israelites were about to cross the River Jordan into Canaan.
b. are documents dating from second century B.C. Judea, discovered in the 1940s.
c. contain a text of the Book of Isaiah that differs fundamentally from modern manuscripts.
d. are a set of Christian religious texts demonstrating the influence of Judaism on Christianity.
e. are better known as the Pentateuch.
Question 2
What was the impact of Italy's geography on the development of Rome?
a. It provided little productive land for agriculture.
b. It divided the peninsula into small isolated communities.
c. It made Rome a natural crossroads and an area easy to defend.
d. It made the conquering of the Mediterranean a difficult task.
e. It created the same difficult environment as in Greece, thus making political unity difficult.