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Egypt is located on the
Continent of
a) Asia
b) Europe
c) Africa
d) Asia Minor
Herodotus called this river a
Gift to the people of Egypt
a) Nile
b) Zambesi
c) Euphrates
d) Tigris
This term means black land
a) Deshret
b) Ammit
c) Kemet
d) Mattock
This term means red land and
Represents all that is evil
a) Deshret
b) Piruit
c) Kemet
d) Shaduf
The season of flooding or
Innundation is called
a) Shaduf
b) Shemu
c) Shait
d) Piruit
The season of emergence is
Known as
a) Piruit
b) Shait
c) Papyrus
d) Deshret
The season of harvest is
Known as
a) Shemu
b) Piruit
c) Shaduf
d) Shait
The Egyptian word for plow
Is
a) Nilometer
b) Shaduf
c) Shemu
d) Mattock
A device used to raise water
from the Nile to irrigation
channels
a) Shemu
b) Shaduf
c) Shait
d) Mattock
A device used to measure the
Height of the Nile’s flood
a) Shemu
b) Shaduf
c) Nilometer
d) Mattock
The plant used to make paper
Is called
a) Piruit
b) Shait
c) Papyrus
d) Deshret
According to an Egyptian
Legend who united upper
And lower Egypt
a) Tut
b) Menes (Narmer)
c) Hatshepsut
d) Thutmoses IV
Pharoahs often depend on an
Advisor to help them run the
Government efficiently. The
Title given to this advisor was
a) Shaduf
b) Vizier
c) Kashta
d) Anubis
Egyptian history is divided
Into how many different eras or
Time periods
a) 2 kingdoms
b) 10 dynasties
c) 12 dynasties
d) 3 kingdoms
A series of rulers from the
Same family is called a
a) Queen
b) Pharoah
c) Regent
d) Dynasty
The three kingdoms that divide
Egyptian history are
a) Old, Renovated, & New
b) Old, Middle, & New
c) Old,Intermediate,& New
d) Khafre, Cheops, & Tut
Great warrior king who had
Over 100 children
a) Tutankhamun
b) Ramses
c) Thutmose II
d) Nefertiti
First women pharaoh in
Ancient Egypt
a) Hatshepsut
b) Nefertiti
c) Menes
d) Ramses III
The pharaoh who had the Great
Pyramid at Giza built. When it
Was completed over 2 million
Stone blocks were used.
a) Senefru
b) Khufu
c) Cleopatra
d) Thutmose I
Oval ring that contains the
Hieroglyphic name of the
Pharaoh.
a) Canopic
b) Sarcophagus
c) Papyrus
d) Cartouche
The pharaoh who had the first
Pyramid built during the Old
Kingdom
a) Senefru
b) Khufu
c) Zoser
d) Thutmose I
The time period from 2700 BCE
To around 2200 BCE .
a) New Kingdom
b) Old Kingdom
c) Middle Kingdom
d) Intermediate Kingdom
The time period from 1550 BCE
To around 1085 BCE .
a) New Kingdom
b) Old Kingdom
c) Middle Kingdom
d) Intermediate Kingdom
The time period from 2050 BCE
To around 1780 BCE .
a) New Kingdom
b) Old Kingdom
c) Middle Kingdom
d) Intermediate Kingdom
The name of the Egyptian
Writing system was called
a) Cuneiform
b) Sanskrit
c) Hieroglyphics
d) Helvetica
Hieroglyphics is a Greek
Term which means
a) Wedge shaped writing
b) Sacred carved inscriptions
c) Chicken scratch
d) alphabet
Approximately how many signs
Or symbols did the ancient
Egyptian writing system contain
a) 750
b) 26
c) 500
d) 100
What famous tablet discovered
In 1799 allowed the Egyptian
Writing system to be translated
a) Dead Sea Scrolls
b) Cleopatra’s diary
c) Rosetta Stone
d) Osiris papyrus
The name given to the temple,
where young boys were taught
to read & write was called the
a) Edubba
b) House of Life
c) House of Papyrus
d) Mastaba
Egyptians used a reed like
plant to make a type of
paper called
a) Papyrus
b) alluvium
c) Xerox
d) Ricoh
How did the ancient Egyptians
Demonstrate their believe in
An afterlife
a) They gave away their stuff
b) They believed in one god
c) They built cities for the dead
d) They preserved their bodies
An Arabic word which means
Bench and was the first style
Of Egyptian tomb built was
Called a
a) Sphinx
b) Mastaba
c) Burial mound
d) Step pyramid
The architect of the first
Step pyramid built in ancient
Egypt was
a) Imhotep
b) Khufu
c) Menes
d) Cheops
Instead of pyramids many of
Egypt’s greatest pharaohs
Were buried in secret cliff side
Tombs located in
a) Sinai Peninsula
b) Thebes
c) The Nile Delta
d) Valley of the Kings
Approximately how many days
Did it take to mummify a body
a) 70
b) 50
c) 3
d) 180
In ancient Egypt, a very
important religious practice
was to
a) Worship one god
b) Prepare for the afterlife
c) Go to the temple each day
d) Worship the pharoah
When did planning for a
Pharaoh’s tomb begin
a) When he died
b) When he was born
c) When he was crowned
d) When the Nile flooded
Which of the following was NOT
A reason why the ancient
Egyptians stopped building
pyramids
a) They were expensive to build
b) They took a long time to build
c) They were often robbed
d) They ran out of limestone
The special salt used to dry the
Body during the mummification
Process was called
a) Piruit
b) Natron
c) Shabtis
d) Shait
The special jars used to hold
The internal organs were
Known as
a) Mason
b) Shemu
c) Shaduf
d) Canopic
Small little servant statues that were
buried with a person and were
supposed to do work for the person
In the afterlife were called
a) Shaduf
b) Shemu
c) Shabtis
d) Ammit
The collection of spells,poems,
And incantations used by the
Egyptians to reach the afterlife
Was called the
a) Undertakers handbook
b) Rosetta stone
c) Book of Amon Re
d) Book of the dead
Stone coffin in the tomb where
the wooden inner coffins were
Placed was the
a) sarcophagus
b) Shait
c) shaduf
d) Shemu
Ceremony where a person’s
Soul was judged to see if they
Were worthy to go to the field
Of reeds
a) Opening of the mouth
b) Capturing of the Ka
c) Weighing of the heart
d) Trial of Osiris
Who discovered Tutankhamun’s
Tomb in 1922 in the Valley of
The Kings
a) Howard Carter
b) Heinrich Scheilman
c) Indiana Jones
d) Lord Greystoke
Religion played an important
part in Egyptian life by helping
to explain the workings of
a) the universe
b) nature
c) The government
d) machines
The Egyptian god of the
Underworld was called
a) Osiris
b) Anubis
c) Seth
d) Isis
The Egyptian idea of heaven
Or paradise was called the
a) Field of Dreams
b) Valhalla
c) Field of Reeds
d) Land of the dead
Why didn’t ancient Egyptians
want to be on the west bank of
the Nile after dark
a) It was illegal
b) Grave robbers lived there
c) Wild animals might attack
d) Spirits of the dead lived there
The Egyptian god of
mummification or
embalming was
a) Anubis
b) Thoth
c) Ammit
d) Osiris
The last ceremony performed
in mummification was the ___
which gave the dead the ability
to eat & speak
a) Weighing of the heart
b) Opening of the mouth
c) Freeing of the Ba
d) Releasing the Ka