Excerpt from The Great Pyramid: Egypt's Tomb for All Time

What does the word "banks" mean as it is used in paragraph 1?

• angles in a road

• rows of things that are like each other

• sloping pieces of land

• places where people work with money

What does "task" mean as it is used in paragraph 3?

• a way of moving something heavy

• a job that needs to be done

• a plan for making something happen

• a reason to go to a new place

Which sentence best explains what happens in a section "A Towering Tomb"?

• Workers drag stones up a ramp to place in a pyramid

• The king decides that he wants the tallest pyramid

• Workers come from different places to build a pyramid

• The king realizes that he needs more space in the pyramid

How does the illustration help the reader understand the information in paragraph 6?

• It shows how the parts of the pyramid are connected

• It shows why the pyramid needs to be so large

• It shows that there is an underground part of the pyramid

• It shows that there is an area in the pyramid for the queen

Which sentence from the article best supports the idea that people came from all over the country to work for the pharaoh?

• "Others were pulling huge stones up the slanted sides of a building" (paragraph 2)

• "Building the Great Pyramid took lots of planning" (paragraph 6)

• "No one knows how the workers got the stones to the top of the pyramid" (paragraph 8)

• "Workers came to Giza from every part of Egypt to help build Khufu's tomb." (paragraph 9)

What is the main idea of the article?

• People were scared when they came to the banks of the Nile River

• Egyptians had the important job of building a tomb for the king

• People thought the king was a sky god who came down from Earth

• Egyptians spent three or four months each year working on the pyramid