Chapter 5-2 Quiz- Daily Life in Egypt

A government in which the same person is both the political and religious leader is called a ______.

• dynasty

• pharaoh

• theocracy

• democrat

Which sentence best describes the way the people of Egypt felt about the pharaoh?

• Egyptians respected the pharaoh and made sure to treat him/her well.

• Egyptians did not see the pharaoh as an authority figure.

• Egyptians normally ran themselves in their own small communities without a supreme ruler.

• Egyptians saw their pharaoh as a living god and felt they had an impact on natural occurrences.

The pharaoh had a say in all of the following situations EXCEPT

• deciding which people in Egypt could raise children

• choosing bureaucrats to oversee construction projects

• participating in religious ceremonies

• assigning people to collect taxes in the form of farm goods

All of the following were things that the Egyptians believed that their gods have control over EXCEPT

• The sun rising and setting

• What clothes they wore

• Earthquakes and other natural disasters

• Rain storms and the Nile River

Why did the Egyptians embalm the bodies of their dead pharaohs?

• to learn more about human bodies

• to honor and show their respect for the dead

• to prove that pharaohs were humans, not gods

• to preserve them so their souls could reach the afterlife

Egyptians stored essential organs in canopic jars because ......

• the Egyptian gods needed the organs for food.

• it was too expensive to keep the organs in the body.

• the dead would need them when they made it to the afterlife.

• the organs would be donated to those who needed them.

Natron is.....

• a mix of different salts that were used for preserving dead bodies

• the Egyptian god of fertility.

• a famous Egyptian pharaoh from the Middle Kingdom

• a mix of burial spices and flowers that made the dead bodies smell good

The mummification process increased the Egyptian's knowledge of ____________.

• mathematics

• the human body

• different cooking recipes

• farming techniques

All of the following organs were considered important and removed from the body EXCEPT

• intensines

• stomach

• lungs

• colon

The Egyptians always believed that only pharaohs could reach the afterlife.

• True

• False