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How much do you know about Ancient Egypt? Take this free History quiz. Test your knowledge by answering all the following questions.

Question 1:

Choose the right option which corresponds with the correct geographical location of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

A) Upper Egypt was located to the north and Lower Egypt was located to the south.

B) Upper Egypt was located to the east and Lower Egypt was located to the west.

C) Upper Egypt was located to the south and Lower Egypt was located to the north.

D) Upper Egypt was located to the west and Lower Egypt was located to the east.

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Question 2:

Which of the following areas of knowledge were developed the most in ancient Egypt in the past?

A) mathematics, philosophy, and medicine

B) philosophy, medicine, and astronomy

C) philosophy, geography, and also medicine

D) mathematics, astronomy, and also medicine

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Question 3:

Choose pyramids which were built and are part of the Giza pyramid complex.

A) The Pyramid of Menkaure

B) The Pyramid of Khafre

C) The Pyramid of Djoser (or the Pyramid of Djeser or Zoser)

D) The Pyramid of Khufu (or the Pyramid of Cheops)

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Question 4:

Select the correct chronological order of the kings of ancient Egypt, according to the years they ruled.

A) Menes, Thumos I, Amenhotep III, Ramesses II

B) Thumos I, Menes, Amenhotep III, Ramesses II

C) Menes, Thumos I, Ramesses II, Amenhotep III

D) Thumos I, Menes, Ramesses, Amenhotep III

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Question 5:

Pharaoh Ramesses III is most known because during his reign ancient Egypt was attacked by invaders called _________. He lived in the ________.

A) the Sea People, 12th century BC

B) the Hyksos, 15th century BC

C) the Sea People, 15th century BC

D) the Hyksos, 12th century BC

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Question 6:

Choose the correct statements about kings of ancient Egypt.

A) Pharaoh was worshipped as the embodiment of a god.

B) Pharaoh was the chief judge and the chief leader of the army.

C) Pharaohs were buried in tombs located in the Valley of the Kings.

D) Only a man could become a pharaoh.

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Question 7:

Which male English archaeologist and Egyptologist helped to discover the mummy of the most famous pharaoh Tutankhamun (also spelled as Tutankhamon) in the 1922? (name and surname)

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Question 8:

For casual secular writings, such as tax and bureau records, ancient Egyptians used which of the mentioned script?

A) Hieroglyphic writing system.

B) Hieratic writing system.

C) Demotic script.

D) All of the following scripts/writing systems.

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Question 9:

Which of the following gods was substituted by the god Aton/Amon in the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), and which also meant abandoning polytheism?

A) Set

B) Osiris

C) Amon

D) Ra

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Question 10:

Which of the following statements are true about the culture, the art and the history of ancient Egypt?

A) Ancient Egyptians painted eyes and body in profile.

B) During mummification, which consisted of embalming the dead body, they took out all human organs besides heart.

C) It can be chronologically divided into 50 dynasties.

D) They used 365-day calendar.

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