Egypt Test 2 Review

What is a pharaoh?

• a. a tool used to carve the stones for a pyramid

• b. an ancient Egyptian king

• c. the time when the Nile river overflows its banks

• d. a river plant used to make paper

What was true about the lower class?

• a. It was the largest social class.

• b. It provided Egypt with a steady food supply by working the land.

• c. It was the work force that built the pyramids in the flood season.

• d. all of the above

A scribe in ancient Egypt was __.

• a. a young boy who wrote important information on papyrus and tomb walls

• b. a slave who could not read or write

• c. an official who led the government

• d. a farmer for the city

___ was the pharaoh that unified Upper and Lower Egypt.

• a. Obama

• b. Narmer

• c. Khufu

• d. Tutanhkamen

The discovery of King Tut's tomb by Howard Carter was important because

• a. he found gold.

• b. hieroglyphics were able to be translated.

• c. tourists were able to see a mummy and artifacts.

• d. his was the only intact tomb found with all of its artifacts.

__ was the sun god.

• a. Ra

• b. Anubis

• c. Isis

• d. Elvis

___ was the god of the underworld.

• a. Osiris

• b. Anubis

• c. Isis

• d. Horus

Which pharaoh tried to make Egypt monotheistic?

• a. Amenhotep

• b. Cleopatra

• c. Tutankhamen

• d. Hatshepsut

Before Egyptians began to mummify dead bodies, they buried them in ___.

• a. mud along the Nile

• b. cool, damp caves

• c. hot sand

• d. the pyramids

What is the name given to the symbols used in the Egyptian system of writing?

• a. sarcophagus

• b. hieroglyphics

• c. scribes

• d. runes