Ancient Egypt - pre-test

Question 1

A process that prevents a body from decaying so it can go to the afterlife?

Accepted Answer

Mummification

Question 2

What is this a picture of?

Accepted Answer

sphinx

Question 3

Pictures that represent ideas, things or sounds, and used in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Hieroglyphics

Question 4

The Nile River ended in a what?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Question 5

What did the Egyptians do to control the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

Build dams

Question 6

The first female pharaoh (ruler)?

Accepted Answer

Hatsheput

Question 7

The name of the capital of the kingdom during Egypt's first dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Memphis

Question 8

This was a great burial ground for the pharoahs?

Accepted Answer

Valley of the Kings

Question 9

What is a special advisor to the pharaoh?

Accepted Answer

Vizier

Question 10

A mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a man?

Accepted Answer

Sphinx

Question 11

On which continent is Egypt located?

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 12

An immense structure that served as a tomb for a pharaoh in the Old Kingdom is called a?

Accepted Answer

pyramid

Question 13

Which Egyptian ruler had the Great Pyramid of Giza built as his or her tomb?

Accepted Answer

Khufu

Question 14

Name the type of religion in Ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Polytheistic

Question 15

The Rosetta stone was used by scholars to?

Accepted Answer

Translate hieroglyphics

Question 16

Name the type of government in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

monarchy

Question 17

If I went to school in ancient Egypt, my school work would be written on?

Accepted Answer

Papyrus

Question 18

A triangular area of land formed from at the mouth of a river?

Accepted Answer

Delta

Question 19

What is an ancient record keeper?

Accepted Answer

Scribe

Question 20

When a pharaoh died in Egypt, what did the priests do with the body?

Accepted Answer

Embalm it

Question 21

The major organs (except for the heart) of a dead body were placed in what in ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Canopic jars

Question 22

How many pyramids are there at the Pyramids of Giza?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 23

The name of a jackal-headed god associated w/ mummification & afterlife in Egyptian religion?

Accepted Answer

Anubis

Question 24

How did the Nile River benefit Egyptians?

Accepted Answer

Provided natural irrigation, fresh water, and fertilization

Question 25

What natural boundary prevented Egyptians from traveling the full length of the Nile River?

Accepted Answer

Cataracts

Question 26

Which was further north?

Accepted Answer

Lower Egypt

Question 27

Who is this person?

Accepted Answer

Cleopatra

Question 28

What was not one of the three kingdoms of ancient Egypt?

Accepted Answer

Present Kingdom

Question 29

A series of rulers that all come from the same family is called a?

Accepted Answer

Dynasty

Question 30

Papyrus was used for making paper. But it was also used for?

Accepted Answer

Building boats to sail on the Nile

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