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,Question 1.
The 'Weighing of the Heart' is found in which of the following New Kingdom texts?
Correct Answer: The Book of the Dead


Question 2.
Which of the following was NOT a Ramesses II construction?
Correct Answer: Temple at Medinet Habu


Question 3.
What's one of the major changes regarding funerary practices during the New Kingdom?
Correct Answer: Mortuary temples became separated from burials


Question 4.
Where did Akhenaten locate his new capital city?
Correct Answer: Amarna


Question 5.
Which of the following is the Aten, Akhenaten's main god of choice?
Correct Answer: Sun disk


Question 6.
Whose mortuary temple are we looking at here?
Correct Answer: Hatshepsut


Question 7.
Which god was worshiped both in the Temple of Karnak and in the Temple of Luxor?
Correct Answer: Amun


Question 8.
Which of the following is NOT one of the main parts of a New Kingdom Egyptian temple?
Correct Answer: Grand Gallery

,Question 9.
Which festival was centered on the tr
Correct Answer: portation of the cult statue of Amun between the temples of
Karnak and Luxor? Answer: Opet Festival


Question 10.
The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt was part of what larger Mediterranean and Near
Eastern Phenomen?
Correct Answer: The Bronze Age Collapse


Question 11.
After a short-lived 21st dynasty of native Egypti
Correct Answer: , what ethnic group takes over the Egyptian throne in the 22nd
Dynasty? Answer: The Libyans


Question 12.
The Assyri
Correct Answer: are particularly known for what characteristic? Answer: Their
gruesome terror tactics


Question 13.
Who was the last Egyptian king of Egypt during the 30th Dynasty in the 300s BCE?
Correct Answer: Nectanebo II


Question 14.
Which Persian inscription is the equivalent of the Rosetta stone since it has the same text
in three different languages?
Correct Answer: The Behistun Inscription


Question 15.
Which Nubian king founded the 25th dynasty and re-unified a divided Egypt?
Correct Answer: Piye


Question 16.
Which did the Meshwesh ruler Shoshenq I list on Bubastite Portal at Karnak?
Correct Answer: Cities he conquered

, Question 17.
Which incredible archaeological find is partially the result of Shoshenq I's actions during
his reign in the 10th century BCE?
Correct Answer: The royal mummy cache of Deir el-Bahri


Question 18.
At Naukratis, the Egyptian goddess Isis was portrayed as merged with which Greek
goddess?
Correct Answer: Aphrodite


Question 19.
The Greeks at Naukratis originally came into Egypt to do what job?
Correct Answer: Mercenaries


Question 20.
Who does Alexander the Great leave his empire to upon his deathbed?
Correct Answer: To the Strongest


Question 21.
What's one strategy that the Ptolemies use to legitimize their rule in Egypt?
Correct Answer: Visually portray themselves as pharaohs


Question 22.
Which of the following is a mash-up between a Greek and Egyptian god?
Correct Answer: Serapis


Question 23.
What two things did Egypt especially contribute to the larger Roman Empire?
Correct Answer: Grain and Stone


Question 24.
What decorative burial practice emerged during the Greco-Roman period that provides
evidence for the increasing diversity of Egypt during this time?
Correct Answer: Painted mummy portraits