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Ancient Egypt - QUIZ

Ancient Egypt - QUIZ

Question 1 of 50

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What were the temples, according to the Egyptians?

Select one of the following:

  • Pharaohs' home on Earth

  • A place to sleep for the gods

  • Home of the gods

  • A place to take pictures with the gods

Explanation

Question 2 of 50

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Which one of the following is a part of Egyptian temples?

Select one of the following:

  • Hypostyle hall

  • Hypogea

  • Hipogea hall

  • Great sphynx of Giza

Explanation

Question 3 of 50

1

Which ones were the most important Egyptian buildings?

Select one of the following:

  • Temples and pyramids

  • Temples and sanctuaries

  • Sanctuaries and houses

  • Temples and agoras

Explanation

Question 4 of 50

1

Which of the following were the first type of tombs in ancient Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Mastabas

  • Tutankhamun's tomb

  • Hypogea

  • Pyramids

Explanation

Question 5 of 50

1

What pharaohs ordered the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza?

Select one of the following:

  • Khufu, Khafre, Kuzco

  • Cleopatra, Khafre and Menkaure

  • Khufu, Khefcenand and Mykerinos

  • Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure

Explanation

Question 6 of 50

1

How does a sphinx look like?

Select one of the following:

  • Body of lion, human head

  • Body of cow, human head

  • Body of human, lion head

  • Body of lion, snake head

Explanation

Question 7 of 50

1

What was the Great Sphinx of Giza built for?

Select one of the following:

  • For guarding Tutankhamun's tomb

  • For decorating the desert

  • For guarding Cleopatra's tomb

  • For guarding the pyramid of pharaoh Chephren

Explanation

Question 8 of 50

1

Who rested in mastabas, pyramids and hypogea?

Select one of the following:

  • Slaves

  • Privileged social groups

  • Pharaohs

  • Artisans

Explanation

Question 9 of 50

1

Who was the god of mummification?

Select one of the following:

  • Anubis

  • Ra

  • Orus

  • Menes

Explanation

Question 10 of 50

1

Who has the least amount of power among the following?

Select one of the following:

  • Priests

  • Scribes

  • Peasants

  • Pharaohs

Explanation

Question 11 of 50

1

Which of the following was NOT an Egyptian god?

Select one of the following:

  • Ra

  • Horus

  • Osiris

  • Apollo

Explanation

Question 12 of 50

1

What type of power did pharaohs have?

Select one of the following:

  • Democratic

  • Absolute

  • Slaves

  • Tyrannical

Explanation

Question 13 of 50

1

Who has the hardest jobs?

Select one of the following:

  • Gods

  • Slaves

  • Peasants

  • Soldiers

Explanation

Question 14 of 50

1

The majority of the population belonged to what social class?

Select one of the following:

  • Slaves

  • Peasants

  • Pharaohs

  • Soldiers

Explanation

Question 15 of 50

1

How did Egyptian people considered their pharaohs?

Select one of the following:

  • They hit slaves

  • They made pyramids

  • The talked with important people

  • They were messengers of the gods

Explanation

Question 16 of 50

1

What did the scribes do?

Select one of the following:

  • They had religious power

  • They had no rights

  • They knew how to write

  • They knew how to trade

Explanation

Question 17 of 50

1

Who was the head of the army?

Select one of the following:

  • Soldiers

  • Priests

  • Pharaohs

  • Scribes

Explanation

Question 18 of 50

1

Which of the following is an example of the jobs of the slaves?

Select one of the following:

  • Mining

  • Agriculture

  • Write

  • Philosophy

Explanation

Question 19 of 50

1

What did the artisans do in ancient Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Collect the taxes

  • Craftwork

  • Fight

  • Read and write

Explanation

Question 20 of 50

1

Why do we say that the pharaohs had economic power?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 21 of 50

1

When did the Egyptian civilisation appear?

Select one of the following:

  • 4th millennium BCE

  • 3rd millennium BCE

  • 2nd millennium BCE

  • 5th millennium BCE

Explanation

Question 22 of 50

1

Where is Egypt located?

Select one of the following:

  • North-southern Africa

  • North-eastern Africa

  • North America

  • South-east Europe

Explanation

Question 23 of 50

1

When did the Egyptians start using irrigation techniques?

Select one of the following:

  • Present

  • 4th century BCE

  • 5th millennium BCE

  • 4th millennium BCE

Explanation

Question 24 of 50

1

Where was the capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom?

Select one of the following:

  • Alexandria

  • Thebes

  • Memphis

  • Avaris

Explanation

Question 25 of 50

1

Who was the first pharaoh of Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Narmer

  • Akhenaten

  • Tutankhamun

  • Cleopatra

Explanation

Question 26 of 50

1

What buildings were built in the Old Kingdom?

Select one of the following:

  • Giza pyramids

  • Peloponnesian pyramids

  • Debod temple

  • Tutankhamun's tomb

Explanation

Question 27 of 50

1

Who controlled Egypt in the Late Period?

Select one of the following:

  • Egyptians

  • Foreign civilisations

  • Greece

  • Mesopotamia

Explanation

Question 28 of 50

1

Which were the River Valley Civilisations in Asia?

Select one of the following:

  • China and India

  • Africa and China

  • Egypt and Greece

  • Mesopotamia and Egypt

Explanation

Question 29 of 50

1

Which of the following is one of the causes of the great transformations of the River Valley Civilisations?

Select one of the following:

  • The discovery of an ocean

  • Growth of population

  • Loss of population

  • Discovery of agriculture

Explanation

Question 30 of 50

1

What were the economic activities of the River Valley Civilisations?

Select one of the following:

  • Appearance of technology

  • Agriculture and harvests

  • Construction of empires

  • Agriculture and trade

Explanation

Question 31 of 50

1

Which of the following transformations do we associate with the River Valley Civilisations?

Select one of the following:

  • Political and social

  • Political and mathematical

  • Geographic and economic

  • There wasn't any great transformation

Explanation

Question 32 of 50

1

When did the River Vallley Civilisations appear?

Select one of the following:

  • 3rd millennium

  • 3rd millennium BCE

  • 4th millennium BCE

  • 1st millennium BCE

Explanation

Question 33 of 50

1

What River Valley Civilisations were located in the Fertile Crescent?

Select one of the following:

  • Egypt and Mesopotamia

  • Egypt and China

  • Greece and England

  • Mesopotamia and India

Explanation

Question 34 of 50

1

What was the initial purpose of writing?

Select one of the following:

  • Administration of wealth

  • Happiness

  • Writing poems and novels

  • Administration and trade

Explanation

Question 35 of 50

1

Mention three of the rivers of the River Valley Civilisations

Select one of the following:

  • Aegean, Nile and Indus

  • Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean

  • Nile, Euphrates and Indus

  • Huang-He, Nile and Amazon

Explanation

Question 36 of 50

1

About mummification... how long does it take for a body to start decomposing?

Select one of the following:

  • 4 minutes

  • 4 hours

  • 4 seconds

  • 4 days

Explanation

Question 37 of 50

1

What does 'polytheist' mean?

Select one of the following:

  • Worshipping several people

  • Worshipping one only god

  • Worshipping several gods

  • Worshipping only Egyptian gods

Explanation

Question 38 of 50

1

What animals were considered sacred in ancient Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • Cats, crocodiles and sheep

  • Birds, cats and beetles

  • Cows, eagles and cats

  • Beetles, cats and cocrodiles

Explanation

Question 39 of 50

1

Why was the process of mummification considered necessary for the well-being of Egypt?

Select one of the following:

  • 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

Explanation

Question 40 of 50

1

How were the gods represented?

Select one of the following:

  • Human and animal features

  • Parts of the bodies

  • Normal people

  • Cats

Explanation

Question 41 of 50

1

What was symbol of the god Apis?

Select one of the following:

  • The Sun

  • A snake

  • A bull

  • A tooth

Explanation

Question 42 of 50

1

Who was represented with an eye?

Select one of the following:

  • Ra

  • Isis

  • Iris

  • Horus

Explanation

Question 43 of 50

1

The Code of Hammurabi compiles...

Select one of the following:

  • Stories

  • Poems

  • Parts of the Book of the Dead

  • Laws

Explanation

Question 44 of 50

1

The Code of Hammurabi was done in...

Select one of the following:

  • China

  • Mesopotamia

  • India

  • Egypt

Explanation

Question 45 of 50

1

Capital of Egypt during two periods

Select one of the following:

  • Memphis

  • Avaris

  • Thebes

  • Alexandria

Explanation

Question 46 of 50

1

In the Second Intermediate Period Egypt were conquered by

Select one of the following:

  • The Assyrians

  • The Neo-Babylonians

  • The Hyksos

  • Alenxander the Great

Explanation

Question 47 of 50

1

Between the Second Intermediate Period and the Late Period we find the...

Select one of the following:

  • Old Kingdom

  • Middle Kingdom

  • New Kingdom

  • Third Intermediate Period

Explanation

Question 48 of 50

1

Egypt finished when... who conquered them?

Select one of the following:

  • Assyrians

  • Romans

  • Greeks

  • Babylonians

Explanation

Question 49 of 50

1

Tutankhamun (or King Tut) was a pharaoh of the...

Select one of the following:

  • Old Kingdom

  • Middle Kingdom

  • New Kingdom

  • Late Period

Explanation

Question 50 of 50

1

What was the sacred book for the Egyptians?

Select one of the following:

  • The Bible

  • The Koran

  • The Book of the Dead

  • The Code of Hammurabi

Explanation

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