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Quiz Created By: Michael Donnelly

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1. How many stone blocks comprised the Great Pyramid?
   
   
   
   A) 2.2 million
   B) 2.5 million
   C) 3 million
   D) 1.7 million
   




2. Each stone block of the pyramid weighed an average of…?
   
   
   
   A) 5 tonnes
   B) 6.3 tonnes
   C) 2.5 tonnes
   D) 1.8 tonnes
   




3. Egypt can attribute its fertile soil to…?
   
   
   
   A) the flooding of the Nile
   B) superior irrigation
   C) rainfall
   D) spreading of fertilizer
   




4. The deity that represented stability in Egyptian culture was…?
   
   
   
   A) Horus
   B) Amon-Re
   C) Anubis
   D) Ma’at
   




5. At the age of 4-6, Egyptian children were sent off to be…?
   
   
   
   A) Workers in the fields
   B) Educated in school
   C) Trained in the army
   D) Become servants for the aristocrats
   




6. Egyptian women were usually…?
   
   
   
   A) Barred from government life
   B) Barred from intellectual life
   C) Illiterate
   D) All of the above
   




7. Egyptian couples dreaded…?
   
   
   
   A) Infertility
   B) Fertility
   C) Taxes
   D) Miscarriages
   




8. Couples who suffered from infertility…?
   
   
   
   A) Would plea to the gods and goddesses of fertility
   B) Use spells, potions and amulets
   C) Adopt a child
   D) All of the above
   




9. The Egyptians were credited with the invention of…?
   
   
   
   A) Gun powder
   B) The compass
   C) The Roman Calender
   D) Irrigation systems
   




10. This king was credited with unifying upper and lower egypt?
    
    
    
    A) Rames II
    B) Cheops
    C) Tutenkhamen
    D) Menes
    

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