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Chapter 5 Lesson 2 Quiz - Life in Ancient Egypt

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a scribe?

a)

A picture that stands for a word or letter

b)

The Book of the Dead

c)

An instrument used to measure the Nile water levels and clarity

d)

A person whose job was to write and keep records

2.

A paper-like material made from a reed of the same name.

a)

leather

b)

papyrus

c)

gold

d)

paper

3.

Egyptians believed that they would go where when they die?

a)

The Afterlife

b)

Heaven

c)

Hell

d)

The Land of Oz

4.

What did the Egyptians do to preserve the bodies that died?

a)

Cover them with steak sauce and BBQ sauce

b)

Use hot tar

c)

Embalm them

d)

Smoke them with apple butter

5.

What is a mummy?

a)

A dead animal

b)

A body that has caught disease and has died

c)

A body that has been dried so it won't decay

d)

The first step of the embalming process

6.

A picture that stands for a word or letter in Ancient Egyptian civilization.

a)

Hieroglyph

b)

An autobiography

c)

Cuneiform

d)

A Pharaoh Painting

7.

What order from the top down best describes Egyptian social roles or classes?

a)

Pharaoh, Farmers, Laborers and Slaves, Priest and Nobles

b)

Laborers and slaves, farmers, Priests and Nobles, and Merchants

c)

Pharaoh, Priests and Nobles, Farmers, Slaves

d)

Craftspeople, Merchants, Farmers, Pharaoh

8.

What four areas knowledge and technological development did ancient Egyptians advance in?

a)

Computers, Engineering, Teaching, Hieroglyphs

b)

Mathematics, Hieroglyphs, mechanical engineering, science

c)

Biology, Geometry, Physics, medicine

d)

Astronomy, Geometry, Medicine, Hieroglyphs

9.

Egyptians learned to make what from looking at what star?

a)

The sun, pyramids

b)

The Stars of Orion and papyrus boats for navigation

c)

The Star Sirius and the 365 day calendar

d)

The sun and a bearing compass

10.

What geometric shapes were sacred to Egyptians?

a)

Octagons and squares

b)

Triangles and rectangles

c)

Circles and squares

d)

Triangles and Squares

11.

What did Egyptians learn to use for medicine?

a)

Used special flowers

b)

Used herbs

c)

Used animal blood

d)

Used papyrus flower

12.

What advances in learning did the Egyptians make?

a)

The created the 365 day calendar, developed accurate surveying methods, developed and writing system, and learned to make papyrus.

b)

They advanced in farming watering, paper, cutting, pottery, and beer making, and airplane development

c)

Aviation, navigation, astronomy, science

13.

What kind of view on life did Egyptians have?

a)

angry

b)

sad

c)

happy

d)

nervous

14.

What did Egyptians make mummies?

a)

They had no other way of burying the dead

b)

They did it to scare away potential tomb robbers

c)

They did it because of they needed to add to the Book of the Dead

d)

They believed they would need their bodies in the afterlife, so they embalmed bodies after death..

15.

Who is the god of the sun?

a)

Osiris

b)

Re

c)

Isis

d)

Anubis

16.

Who is the god that will judge after death?

a)

Re

b)

Osiris

c)

Isis

d)

Anubis

17.

Who is the god of the dead?

a)

Re

b)

Osiris

c)

Anubis

d)

Isis

18.

What three parts make up the idea of the soul?

a)

ma, ta, jak

b)

Sa, la, jak

c)

Ba, Ka, Akh

d)

Ba, Sa, Ta

19.

What contains spells, charms, passwords, and numbers to help secure easy passage for the deceased into the afterlife?

a)

The Book of eternal water

b)

The book of love

c)

The book of life

d)

The book of the dead

20.

What is this a picture of?

a)

The Cross of the afterlife

b)

An amulet for meaning water

c)

An Ankh a symbol of life and love

d)

Ba - the cross of patience

21.

Egyptians were the first to have this animal as a pet.

a)

Dog

b)

Bird

c)

The Nile Squirrel

d)

Cat

22.

As a part of the Embalming process what was the first organ they took out?

a)

The heart

b)

The stomach

c)

The brain

d)

The liver

23.

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.

a)

Myrrh

b)

Frankincense

c)

Jasmine

d)

Rose Oil

24.

What was the only organ of the body left inside the body when embalming?

a)

Heart

b)

Lungs

c)

Liver

d)

Spleen

25.

Which god was Osiris wife and known as the fertility god?

a)

Re

b)

Osiris

c)

The Jackal

d)

Isis