Treasures of the tomb

Which sentence from the article best supports the inference that King Tut’s curse was imagined, not real, as newspapers had claimed?

• “The disorder in the annex indicates ancient grave robbers had looted the tomb.”
• “The shrine holds Tut’s liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines.”
• “On April 5, 1923, Lord Carnarvon died suddenly in Egypt.”
• “Lord Carnarvon had been been in poor health for years.”

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Read these sentences from the article. Soon known as the annex, this tiny chamber holds more than 2,000 everyday objects. They include boomerangs, shields, a box containing eye makeup, and 116 baskets of food. Which of the following ideas do these sentences best support?

• The pharaoh named tutankhamun and the people he ruled never went hungry.
• The objects in the annex were worth as much money as the objects in the treasury.
• Ancient Egyptians believed that ordinary objects could be useful even after death.
• Ancient Egyptians always placed thousands of everyday objects in the coffins of their dead.

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Read these sentences from the article.
The ancient Egyptians believed that “to speak the name of the dead is to make them live again.” If that is true, Tutankhamun certainly lives on. Based on these sentences, with which statement would the author of the article most likely agree?

• The discovery of King Tut’s tomb was a benefit because it has helped to get people interested in Egypt.
• Howard Carter and Lord
  Carnarvon stole King Tut’s
  treasures, just as the ancient tomb robbers had tried to do.
• King Tut’s tomb should have remained sealed to keep people from making up stories about a curse.
• The discovery of the treasure
  was a benefit because it kept
  grave robbers from looting other ancient tombs.

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Paragraph 1 of the article states that Lord Carnarvon asked Howard Carter what he saw in the antechamber. Carter could only answer Lord Carnarvon’s question after a moment of “stunned silence.” Choose why Carter was surprised and amazed by what he saw. 

• The tomb was extremely cluttered
• Because 2.5 million people have visited the tomb. 
• Carter was surprised and amazed by the vast amount of gold and other precious artifacts that he saw. 
• Lord Carnarvon received a curse for going into Tut's tomb. 

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