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Ancient Egypt

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
The Nile River flows through two important regions in Egypt called
a)
Mesopotamia
b)
Upper and Lower Egypt
c)
Eastern and Western Egypt
d)
Nubia and Cairo
2.
Besides providing a stable food diet, what other advantage did Egypt's location provide for early Egyptians?
a)
Temples to worship in
b)
Sumerian artwork
c)
Natural barriers to protect them
d)
2 dynasties to celebrate religious tradtion
3.
What is a dynasty?
a)
a collection of queens
b)
a collection of kingdoms
c)
series of rulers from different families
d)
series of rulers from the same family
4.
Describe the burial practices of Egyptians?
a)
They used a funeral pyre for the dead.
b)
They carried the dead to a nearby country.
c)
They preserved bodies as mummies.
d)
They were buried in the river.
5.
Why were tombs filled with art, jewelry, etc.....?
a)
Tombs were museums.
b)
Tombs were private storage for the pharaoh.
c)
Tombs were the safest place in the kingdom.
d)
They believed the dead enjoyed their materials in the afterlife.
6.

Pyramids are

a)

warehouses to store food surplus

b)

temples where people are allowed to come and pray

c)

tombs with 2 rectangle-shaped sides

d)

tombs with triangle-shaped sides that meet in a point at the top

7.
Whose tomb was discovered in 1922?
a)
King Tutankhamen
b)
Ahmose
c)
Ramese
d)
Queen Hatsheput
8.
What was learned through studying King Tut's tomb?
a)
He was a king.
b)
The burial practices of Egyptians.
c)
He was wealthy.
d)
He had many wives.
9.
The worship of many gods.
a)
monotheism
b)
irrigation
c)
polytheism
d)
epic
10.
Who would write and record information?
a)
slaves
b)
scribes
c)
farmers
d)
craftspeople
11.
Egyptian writing system
a)
papyrus
b)
alaphabet
c)
cuneiform
d)
heiroglyphics
12.
Where is the most fertile soil in Egypt?
a)
Nile Delta
b)
desert
c)
far south
d)
cataracts
13.
What is papyrus?
a)
mud used in building
b)
plant from which paper is made
c)
rock used to make tools
d)
animal skin
14.
Why was the Rosetta Stone so important?
a)
It helped archaeologists decipher Egyptian writing?
b)
It gave clues about building.
c)
It was a book of the dead.
d)
It told how pharaoh's rules.
15.
Who is at the top of the Egyptian social hierarchy?
a)
slaves
b)
pharaoh
c)
scribe
d)
merchant
16.
What was the Egyptian economy based on?
a)
farming
b)
sale of artwork
c)
mining
d)
painting temples
17.
What process preserved the bodies of pharoahs for thousands of years?
a)
hieroglyphics
b)
papyrus
c)
mummification
d)
buriel
18.
What is the famous river in Egypt?
a)
Tigris
b)
Euphrates
c)
Nile
d)
Hudson
19.
What did the Egyptians build around the floods?
a)
New Life
b)
Calendar
c)
Pyramids
d)
Deserts
20.
The river made the land...
a)
Fertile
b)
Dry
c)
Red
d)
Dusty
21.
What is the name of the Egyptian leader/ruler?
a)
The Taoiseach
b)
The Pharaoh
c)
The President
d)
The Emperor
22.

Which one of these did the ancient Egyptians NOT build

a)

The Sphinx

b)

The Pyramids

c)

Pompeii

d)

Temples for their gods

23.
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 helped us best understand which of the following?
a)
Canopic Jars
b)
Pyramid Theories
c)
The Book of the Dead
d)
Hieroglyphics
24.
On which continent can ancient Egypt be found?
a)
Asia
b)
Africa
c)
South America
d)
Eurpoe
25.
What significance did the shape of the pyramid, pointing upwards, have for the ancient Egyptians?
a)
It pointed to the heavens and served as a staircase to their gods.
b)
It pointed up to the sun, one of ancient Egyptians gods.
c)
It was square like a sarcophagus.
d)
It pointed the way to the Mediterranean Sea.
26.
Why was mummification so important to the ancient Egyptians?
a)
Everyone needs a mommy.
b)
The preserved appearance of the body allowed it to be recognized by the person's spirit in the afterlife.
c)
So you wouldn't be cold in the afterlife.
d)
So you could come back and haunt your family.
27.
The largest group in Egyptian society was made up of
a)
farmers and workers
b)
scribes and traders
c)
artisans and merchants
d)
army commanders and nobles
28.
Egyptians developed ______ to survey the land and build pyramids
a)
irrigation
b)
geometry
c)
shadoof
d)
embalming
29.
A reed plant that grows long the Nile River. Ancient Egyptians made baskets, sandals, river rafts, and paper from it.
a)
cataract
b)
delta
c)
papyrus
d)
embalming
30.
How does the Nile River flow?
a)
starting in the south to the north 
b)
starting in the north to the south 
c)
starting in the middle to the north 
d)
starting in the middle to the south 
31.
How often did the Nile River flood?
a)
Every now and then
b)
Every 3 months
c)
Every year at some time
d)
Every year at about the same time
32.
Which describes a technique that the ancient Egyptians used to adapt to their environment?
a)
They built underground sewer systems.
b)
They were able to irrigate water from the Red Sea for their crops.
c)
They farmed on land that had been flooded by the Nile River.
d)
They built walls around their city to keep out invaders.
33.
 When Egyptian workers labored at different tasks in their society so that many things could be taken care of at a time, this was called...
a)
domestication.
b)
irrigation.
c)
economy.
d)
division of labor.
34.
 What effect did a surplus of food have on the people of the Nile River valley?
a)
Egyptians could specialize in jobs other than farming.
b)
Egyptian trade decreased.
c)
The population of Egypt decreased.
d)
Egyptian specialization in jobs other than farming decreased.
35.
Method of bring water to a field is called ______________
a)
Irrigation 
b)
Agriculture 
c)
Domestication 
36.

Where did most the Egyptian population live?

a)

along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

b)

along the coast of the Red Sea

c)

along the coast of the Nile River

d)

in the desert

37.

Who was the most important god in Egypt?

a)

Ra (Amon-Re)

b)

Horus

c)

Isis

d)

Osiris

38.
How were Egyptians able to predict when the Nile would flood each year?
a)
they read ancient manuscripts that traced the history of the Nile
b)
they used a lunar calendar and noted the event on the same date each year
c)
they watched the horizon for the star Sirius to appear
d)
they were not able to predict it because the flooding varied from year to year
39.

What word means ideas that spread from Egypt to other lands through the buying and selling of goods and services?

a)

artistry

b)

bureaucracy

c)

commerce

d)

interdependence

40.
Where was the kingdom of Kush located?
a)
North of Egypt
b)
South of Egypt
c)
East of Egypt
d)
West of Egypt
41.

Queen Hatshepsut was good for Egypt during the New Kingdom because

a)

she was merciful to captured prisoners.

b)

she increased trade and ran a peaceful kingdom.

c)

she killed her stepson.

d)

she destroyed the wealth of Egypt.

42.
Egypt was mostly an/a _____________ -based economy.
a)
agricultural
b)
mechanical
c)
suburban
d)
mining
43.
Who owned everything in Ancient Egyptian kingdoms?
a)
The Pharoah
b)
Vizier
c)
Slaves
d)
Priests
44.
Ancient Egyptian history is divided into how many kingdoms?
a)
3
b)
4
c)
5
d)
2
45.
Egypt borders what 2 seas?
a)
Mediterranean Sea & Red Sea
b)
Dead Sea & Red Sea
c)
Dead Sea & Mediterranean Sea
46.

How did the Nile River benefit Egyptians? (select all that apply)

a)

fresh drinking water

b)

floods destroyed homes and crops

c)

floods provided silt

d)

papyrus grew near the river

e)

a waterway for transportation

47.

Why are the social classes of ancient Egypt described by the shape of a pyramid?

a)

Triangle represented the 3 season

b)

Most people at bottom, fewest people at the top

c)

Scientists like pyramids

d)

Pharaohs had pyramids built

48.

What is the second longest river in the World?

a)

Amazon River

b)

Tigris River

c)

Nile River

d)

Euphrates River

49.
Where did most early civilizations like Egypt and Mesopotamia develop?
a)
mountain ranges
b)
deserts
c)
river valleys
d)
coastlines
50.

How was Egypt protected from invasion?

a)

The delta to the east, cataracts to the west, and the deserts to the north and south.

b)

The delta to the north, cataracts to the south and the deserts to the east and west.

c)

They had a strong army.

d)

The delta to the south, cataracts to the north, and the deserts to the east and west.

51.

In what way was Mesopotamia and Egypt the same?

a)

both civilizations were built next to two rivers

b)

both had major river(s) that provided silt/ fertile soil for farming

c)

both civilizations had the same types of government and the same gods

d)

both governments continued with dynasties and buried their leaders in pyramids

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