- In the “The Hymn to the Aten,” how was the sun depicted?
D. as symbolic of the inevitability of death and the promise of rebirth - Egyptian civilization emerged along the banks of the __ River in Africa.
b. Nile - The Egyptians found security in
A. the natural elements. - Successful elements of ancient Egyptian civilization included which of the following?
D. All these answers are correct (a uniform language, geographical isolation, and a shared political culture and life). - Which of the following is true about the pyramids?
A. They contained the pharaoh’s most valued possessions. - Which of the following best describes the cosmology of the ancient Egyptians in North Africa?
B. They viewed the world as a flat platter floating on water. - The Egyptian Osiris myth vividly describes the idea of
D. resurrection. - Which of the following is associated with Osiris?
D. papyrus scroll from the Book of the Dead - A belief in the existence of many gods is known as
C. polytheism. - The Palette of Narmer depicts
B. the union of Upper and Lower Egypt. - Egypt was conquered in 332 B.C.E. by which of the following invaders?
A. Alexander the Great - The name of the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt was
A. Narmer. - Recent excavations near Gizeh suggest that the promise of life after death was
A. anticipated by all social classes. - Early Egyptian tomb structures, usually single-story, are
C. mastabas. - At the top of the Egyptian power hierarchy serving the pharaoh was the
D. vizier. - A principal subject of Egyptian poetry was
B. love. - In art of the Old Kingdom,
A. upper-class people are shown larger than lower-class people. - Our knowledge of Egyptian visual art comes primarily from
C. tombs. - The Egyptian canon of artistic representations of the human form gave the proportions of the human body as determined according to the width of
B. a clenched fist. - Akhenaten in the New Kingdom is known for having introduced
B. monotheism.
- The Egyptian temples that have survived were
A. adorned with painted reliefs. - Pyramid-like structures at the entrance to an Egyptian temple, representing the mountains encircling the world, are called
C. pylons. - Egyptian commemorative pillars are called
B. obelisks. - The statue of Mycerinus and Queen Kha-merer-nebty II represents
C. transfer of power from the woman to the pharaoh. - The figurative voyage from light to dark as one entered the Egyptian temple was represented by a room of
A. hypostyles. - Which of the following does the text use to describe the musical poetry of the Egyptian New Kingdom?
D. lyric - Spatial depth in Egyptian art is achieved
B. by placing one figure above another. - In the New Kingdom, one pharaoh changed to the practice of monotheism perhaps to rival the power of the
B. local priests. - With the advent of his declaration of monotheism, Akhenaten
A. became unpopular with the priests of the demoted gods (also because of increased taxes on the people). - In Egyptian society, slaves
C. were victims of war. - A ruler who combines political with spiritual power is characterized as a __ monarch.
A. theocratic - The following was usually part of the vizier’s responsibility:
B. mobilization of an army - What is the Book of the Dead?
C. a collection of funerary prayers - What natural forces were considered sacred in Egyptian society?
A. the sun and the Nile
