Ancient Egypt - QUIZ

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Test for revising the unit of ancient Egypt
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Question 1

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What were the temples, according to the Egyptians?
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  • Pharaohs' home on Earth
  • A place to sleep for the gods
  • Home of the gods
  • A place to take pictures with the gods

Question 2

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Which one of the following is a part of Egyptian temples?
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  • Hypostyle hall
  • Hypogea
  • Hipogea hall
  • Great sphynx of Giza

Question 3

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Which ones were the most important Egyptian buildings?
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  • Temples and pyramids
  • Temples and sanctuaries
  • Sanctuaries and houses
  • Temples and agoras

Question 4

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Which of the following were the first type of tombs in ancient Egypt?
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  • Mastabas
  • Tutankhamun's tomb
  • Hypogea
  • Pyramids

Question 5

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What pharaohs ordered the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza?
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  • Khufu, Khafre, Kuzco
  • Cleopatra, Khafre and Menkaure
  • Khufu, Khefcenand and Mykerinos
  • Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure

Question 6

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How does a sphinx look like?
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  • Body of lion, human head
  • Body of cow, human head
  • Body of human, lion head
  • Body of lion, snake head

Question 7

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What was the Great Sphinx of Giza built for?
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  • For guarding Tutankhamun's tomb
  • For decorating the desert
  • For guarding Cleopatra's tomb
  • For guarding the pyramid of pharaoh Chephren

Question 8

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Who rested in mastabas, pyramids and hypogea?
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  • Slaves
  • Privileged social groups
  • Pharaohs
  • Artisans

Question 9

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Who was the god of mummification?
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  • Anubis
  • Ra
  • Orus
  • Menes

Question 10

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Who has the least amount of power among the following?
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  • Priests
  • Scribes
  • Peasants
  • Pharaohs

Question 11

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Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian god?
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  • Ra
  • Horus
  • Osiris
  • Apollo

Question 12

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What type of power did pharaohs have?
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  • Democratic
  • Absolute
  • Slaves
  • Tyrannical

Question 13

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Who has the hardest jobs?
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  • Gods
  • Slaves
  • Peasants
  • Soldiers

Question 14

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The majority of the population belonged to what social class?
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  • Slaves
  • Peasants
  • Pharaohs
  • Soldiers

Question 15

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How did Egyptian people considered their pharaohs?
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  • They hit slaves
  • They made pyramids
  • The talked with important people
  • They were messengers of the gods

Question 16

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What did the scribes do?
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  • They had religious power
  • They had no rights
  • They knew how to write
  • They knew how to trade

Question 17

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Who was the head of the army?
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  • Soldiers
  • Priests
  • Pharaohs
  • Scribes

Question 18

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Which of the following is an example of the jobs of the slaves?
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  • Mining
  • Agriculture
  • Write
  • Philosophy

Question 19

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What did the artisans do in ancient Egypt?
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  • Collect the taxes
  • Craftwork
  • Fight
  • Read and write

Question 20

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Why do we say that the pharaohs had economic power?
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  • Because they had lots of banknotes
  • Because they controlled the army
  • Because the land and the people belonged to them
  • Because of the religious power

Question 21

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When did the Egyptian civilisation appear?
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  • 4th millennium BCE
  • 3rd millennium BCE
  • 2nd millennium BCE
  • 5th millennium BCE

Question 22

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Where is Egypt located?
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  • North-southern Africa
  • North-eastern Africa
  • North America
  • South-east Europe

Question 23

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When did the Egyptians start using irrigation techniques?
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  • Present
  • 4th century BCE
  • 5th millennium BCE
  • 4th millennium BCE

Question 24

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Where was the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom?
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  • Alexandria
  • Thebes
  • Memphis
  • Avaris

Question 25

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Who was the first pharaoh of Egypt?
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  • Narmer
  • Akhenaten
  • Tutankhamun
  • Cleopatra

Question 26

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What buildings were built in the Old Kingdom?
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  • Giza pyramids
  • Peloponnesian pyramids
  • Debod temple
  • Tutankhamun's tomb

Question 27

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Who controlled Egypt in the Late Period?
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  • Egyptians
  • Foreign civilisations
  • Greece
  • Mesopotamia

Question 28

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Which were the River Valley Civilisations in Asia?
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  • China and India
  • Africa and China
  • Egypt and Greece
  • Mesopotamia and Egypt

Question 29

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Which of the following is one of the causes of the great transformations of the River Valley Civilisations?
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  • The discovery of an ocean
  • Growth of population
  • Loss of population
  • Discovery of agriculture

Question 30

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What were the economic activities of the River Valley Civilisations?
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  • Appearance of technology
  • Agriculture and harvests
  • Construction of empires
  • Agriculture and trade

Question 31

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Which of the following transformations do we associate with the River Valley Civilisations?
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  • Political and social
  • Political and mathematical
  • Geographic and economic
  • There wasn't any great transformation

Question 32

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When did the River Vallley Civilisations appear?
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  • 3rd millennium
  • 3rd millennium BCE
  • 4th millennium BCE
  • 1st millennium BCE

Question 33

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What River Valley Civilisations were located in the Fertile Crescent?
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  • Egypt and Mesopotamia
  • Egypt and China
  • Greece and England
  • Mesopotamia and India

Question 34

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What was the initial purpose of writing?
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  • Administration of wealth
  • Happiness
  • Writing poems and novels
  • Administration and trade

Question 35

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Mention three of the rivers of the River Valley Civilisations
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  • Aegean, Nile and Indus
  • Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean
  • Nile, Euphrates and Indus
  • Huang-He, Nile and Amazon

Question 36

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About mummification... how long does it take for a body to start decomposing?
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  • 4 minutes
  • 4 hours
  • 4 seconds
  • 4 days

Question 37

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What does 'polytheist' mean?
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  • Worshipping several people
  • Worshipping one only god
  • Worshipping several gods
  • Worshipping only Egyptian gods

Question 38

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What animals were considered sacred in ancient Egypt?
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  • Cats, crocodiles and sheep
  • Birds, cats and beetles
  • Cows, eagles and cats
  • Beetles, cats and cocrodiles

Question 39

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Why was the process of mummification considered necessary for the well-being of Egypt?
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  • Because they offended the pharaohs when they were alive
  • Because they did lots of human sacrifices
  • Because the thought that the pharaohs protected Egypt even dead
  • Because they thought that it rained because of the preservation of bodies

Question 40

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How were the gods represented?
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  • Human and animal features
  • Parts of the bodies
  • Normal people
  • Cats

Question 41

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What was symbol of the god Apis?
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  • The Sun
  • A snake
  • A bull
  • A tooth

Question 42

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Who was represented with an eye?
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  • Ra
  • Isis
  • Iris
  • Horus

Question 43

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The Code of Hammurabi compiles...
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  • Stories
  • Poems
  • Parts of the Book of the Dead
  • Laws

Question 44

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The Code of Hammurabi was done in...
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  • China
  • Mesopotamia
  • India
  • Egypt

Question 45

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Capital of Egypt during two periods
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  • Memphis
  • Avaris
  • Thebes
  • Alexandria

Question 46

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In the Second Intermediate Period Egypt were conquered by
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  • The Assyrians
  • The Neo-Babylonians
  • The Hyksos
  • Alenxander the Great

Question 47

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Between the Second Intermediate Period and the Late Period we find the...
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  • Old Kingdom
  • Middle Kingdom
  • New Kingdom
  • Third Intermediate Period

Question 48

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Egypt finished when... who conquered them?
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  • Assyrians
  • Romans
  • Greeks
  • Babylonians

Question 49

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Tutankhamun (or King Tut) was a pharaoh of the...
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  • Old Kingdom
  • Middle Kingdom
  • New Kingdom
  • Late Period

Question 50

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What was the sacred book for the Egyptians?
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  • The Bible
  • The Koran
  • The Book of the Dead
  • The Code of Hammurabi
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