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WorksheetsChapter 5 Lesson 2 Quiz - Life in Ancient Egypt
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 50mins
What is a scribe?
A picture that stands for a word or letter
The Book of the Dead
An instrument used to measure the Nile water levels and clarity
A person whose job was to write and keep records
A paper-like material made from a reed of the same name.
leather
papyrus
gold
paper
Egyptians believed that they would go where when they die?
The Afterlife
Heaven
Hell
The Land of Oz
What did the Egyptians do to preserve the bodies that died?
Cover them with steak sauce and BBQ sauce
Use hot tar
Embalm them
Smoke them with apple butter
What is a mummy?
A dead animal
A body that has caught disease and has died
A body that has been dried so it won't decay
The first step of the embalming process
A picture that stands for a word or letter in Ancient Egyptian civilization.
Hieroglyph
An autobiography
Cuneiform
A Pharaoh Painting
What order from the top down best describes Egyptian social roles or classes?
Pharaoh, Farmers, Laborers and Slaves, Priest and Nobles
Laborers and slaves, farmers, Priests and Nobles, and Merchants
Pharaoh, Priests and Nobles, Farmers, Slaves
Craftspeople, Merchants, Farmers, Pharaoh
What four areas knowledge and technological development did ancient Egyptians advance in?
Computers, Engineering, Teaching, Hieroglyphs
Mathematics, Hieroglyphs, mechanical engineering, science
Biology, Geometry, Physics, medicine
Astronomy, Geometry, Medicine, Hieroglyphs
Egyptians learned to make what from looking at what star?
The sun, pyramids
The Stars of Orion and papyrus boats for navigation
The Star Sirius and the 365 day calendar
The sun and a bearing compass
What geometric shapes were sacred to Egyptians?
Octagons and squares
Triangles and rectangles
Circles and squares
Triangles and Squares
What did Egyptians learn to use for medicine?
Used special flowers
Used herbs
Used animal blood
Used papyrus flower
What advances in learning did the Egyptians make?
The created the 365 day calendar, developed accurate surveying methods, developed and writing system, and learned to make papyrus.
They advanced in farming watering, paper, cutting, pottery, and beer making, and airplane development
Aviation, navigation, astronomy, science
What kind of view on life did Egyptians have?
angry
sad
happy
nervous
What did Egyptians make mummies?
They had no other way of burying the dead
They did it to scare away potential tomb robbers
They did it because of they needed to add to the Book of the Dead
They believed they would need their bodies in the afterlife, so they embalmed bodies after death..
Who is the god of the sun?
Osiris
Re
Isis
Anubis
Who is the god that will judge after death?
Re
Osiris
Isis
Anubis
Who is the god of the dead?
Re
Osiris
Anubis
Isis
What three parts make up the idea of the soul?
ma, ta, jak
Sa, la, jak
Ba, Ka, Akh
Ba, Sa, Ta
What contains spells, charms, passwords, and numbers to help secure easy passage for the deceased into the afterlife?
The Book of eternal water
The book of love
The book of life
The book of the dead
What is this a picture of?
The Cross of the afterlife
An amulet for meaning water
An Ankh a symbol of life and love
Ba - the cross of patience
Egyptians were the first to have this animal as a pet.
Dog
Bird
The Nile Squirrel
Cat
As a part of the Embalming process what was the first organ they took out?
The heart
The stomach
The brain
The liver
Mr. Kelman brought in two oils the other day. One of them was used as the final stage of embalming to keep the mummies smelling good instead of bad and nasty.
Myrrh
Frankincense
Jasmine
Rose Oil
What was the only organ of the body left inside the body when embalming?
Heart
Lungs
Liver
Spleen
Which god was Osiris wife and known as the fertility god?
Re
Osiris
The Jackal
Isis
