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Social Studies 9 Unit 1 & 2 Test

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. What is the Longest River in the World?

a)

Amazon River

b)

Mississippi River

c)

South Saskatchewan River

d)

Nile River

2.

Why did most Egyptians live in the crowded Nile villages?

a)

Because they could not live in the dessert and had to live near the Nile

b)

Because the government forced them to

c)

They had to live with their families

d)

So they could swim in the Nile

3.

How did the Egyptians carry Nile water into the desert?

a)

They carried it in buckets

b)

They Drove Trucks

c)

They built irrigation and canal systems

d)

They ran rubber hoses through the dessert

4.

What natural barriers protect Egypt from invaders?

a)

Deserts

b)

The Red and Mediterranean Seas

c)

The Waterfalss and Rapids of the Nile

d)

All the Above

5.

The letter A.D. represents:

a)

Cheese Bagels

b)

Before Christ

c)

After Death

d)

Anno Domini

6.

The letters B.C.E. represent:

a)

Time after the discovery of human life

b)

Before Christ

c)

Before Common Era

d)

Baptisatus Creatious Ecumino

7.

What is the difference between prehistory and history?

a)

The birth of Christ

b)

Written Records

c)

The ica age

d)

Discovery of Human Bones

8.

Archeologist study…

a)

Ecofacts

b)

Artifacts

c)

Preserved bodies, bones and sites

d)

All the Above

9.

Prehistory is the period in which people did not produce __________ records.

a)

Bronze

b)

Printed

c)

Written

d)

Stone

10.

Why was the Nile flooding its banks every July important for the Egyptians?

a)

To clean out the garbage

b)

To fill swimming pools

c)

To soak the soil and leave behind nutrient rich silt

d)

To provide water to the pyramids

11.

Who wrote On the Origins of Species?

a)

JK Rowling

b)

Charles Ludwig

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Dave Johnson

12.

What is a primary source?

a)

An original record

b)

A record of a person, event, or moment from later

c)

A retelling of a story

d)

All the above

13.

What is a secondary source?

a)

An original record

b)

A record of a person, event, or moment from later on

c)

Your second most important source

d)

All of the above

14.

The Egyptians Religious Beliefs reflected the importance of

a)

Owning Property

b)

Nautre in thier Lives

c)

Working

d)

Owning Material

15.

The most important Egyptian god was

a)

The Sun God (Amon-Re)

b)

House God

c)

Tree God

d)

Village God

16.

1. Egyptians believed that different gods controlled

a)

The Forces of Nature (bad & good crops/high & low floods)

b)

Time

c)

Peasent Farmers

d)

The building of pyramids

17.

How did Egyptians Preserves dead bodies?

a)

Freezing Them

b)

Throwing them in the Nile

c)

Burying them in snow

d)

Mummification

18.

What did Egyptians believe about the afterlife?

a)

They did not believe in an afterlife

b)

You were happy, healthy, young, well-fed and busy with activities

c)

You were forced to work hard labor

d)

It was an awful place

19.

Where are upper and lower Egypt located?

a)

Upper in the south and lower in the north

b)

Lower in the south and upper in the north

c)

Lower is low and upper is up

d)

Lower is west and upper is east

20.

What happened to lower and upper Egypt in 3100BC

a)

They were separated

b)

They went to war

c)

They were unified into one Kingdom by Menes

d)

Nothing happened

21.

What was the role of a Pharaoh?

a)

Control people’s lives (God)

b)

Be the source of all law

c)

Own all land, water and resources

d)

All of the above

22.

Why were Pyramids built

a)

To act as homes for Pharaohs

b)

To house government offices

c)

To act as a recreation center

d)

To act as tombs and spirit homes for Pharaohs after they die

23.

Why were thousands of laborer’s needed to build pyramids?

a)

They were massive

b)

They used heavy boulders and stones

c)

They took many years to build

d)

All the Above

24.

What was unique about Queen Hatshepsut?

a)

She was tall

b)

She was the first woman ruler known to history

c)

She was from a poor family

d)

She never married

25.

When schools were first established in Ancient Egypt, what did students learn?

a)

Reading & Writing

b)

Religious Ceremonies & Rituals

c)

Arithmetic (Math)

d)

All the Above

26.

What did scribes do?

a)

Kept Records in Writing

b)

Painted Pictures

c)

Built Furniture

d)

Traded Grains

27.

What advances in astronomy did the Egyptians make?

a)

Discovered Earth

b)

Found the Moon

c)

Plotted the course of Stars & Planets

d)

Invented the telescope

28.

What medical discoveries did the Ancient Egyptians make?

a)

Invented Antibiotics

b)

Performed the First Surgeries

c)

Heart Transplant

d)

Limb Transplant

29.

What is True About the Delta?

a)

Triangle Shaped Wetland

b)

At the End of the Nile River

c)

Empties into the Mediterranean Sea

d)

All the Above

30.

Where was the Egypt Not Protected from Invasion?

a)

The Mediterranean Sea

b)

The Nile River

c)

From Behind

d)

The Sinai Peninsula