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Ancient Egypt: Mumm's the Word
Ancient Egypt: Mumm's the Word
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Egypt chapter 4 pretest, from Holt, Rinehart & Winston textbook.
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The southern part of ancient Egypt is called
Lower Egypt
The Lower West 40
Upper Egypt
South Egypt
2
How did trade grow in the New Kingdom?
Egypt conquered distant lands.
They built a canal for boats
Egypt had the best prices.
Egypt made better roads.
3
What was weird about Queen Hatshepsut?
She was from China.
She was only twelve years old.
She was blind.
She ruled as a king and dressed like a man.
4
What was significant about Queen Shanakhdakheto?
She was a warrior whose army conquered Nubia
She was married to King Tut
She was the first woman to rule Kush
She was King Tut's mom
5
How can you tell that Egypt and Kush were friends once in their history?
Kush helped design the pyramids
The people in Kush used to live in Egypt
They were trading partners
Many of the Egyptian rulers were from Kush
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Where did the Kushite people get the Meroitic written language?
they made it
from West Africans
from the Egyptians
from the Meroitic people
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The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes is called
engineering
clinical lab
hypothesis
graphic design
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An imaginary creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human is a
Cairo
Mummy
Sphinx
Thebes
9
Whose writing did the Kushites copy?
Assyrians
Sumerians
Egypt's
Hittites
10
Why were pyramids filled with art, jewelry, and valuable artifacts?
dead pharaohs used that stuff in the next life.
The pyramids used to be kings' temples
Pyramids were used for storage
The pharaohs didn't want anyone to have them
11
A system of people in different lands who trade goods is called
trade network
flea market
Craigslist of Egypt
center of trade
12
What's in a canopic jar?
precious stones
body organs
perfume
food
13
Who were the pyramids built for?
All were built for King Tut.
Meeting houses for kings
Dead Pharaohs
Wives of upper class royalty
14
The area with the largest amount of gold in Egypt was
Red Sea
the Nubian Desert
Kush
Blue Nile River
15
The longest river in the world is the
Yangtze
Mississippi
Nile
Ganges
16
Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth were called
mummies
antibodies
embalming
sarcophagus
17
A long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds is called
cardstock
construction paper
ricepaper
papyrus
18
Which artifact helped historians understand hieroglyphics?
The Tablet of Tokens
Rosetta Stone
The Cave of Calculation
The Basket of Answers
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What did the Kushites give the Egyptians as gifts?
emeralds and rubies
ebony and ivory
horses and sheep
grain and cattle
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Anubis was
half human + half horse
half woman + half snake
god of the dead; half jackal + half man
half woman + half bird
