Human Legacy Course/Quiz 9

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1

What was the process that prevented the breakdown of a dead body?

Papyrus
Mummification
Ka
Quarry

2

What was the name of someone who copied texts or kept public records?

Osiris
Horus
Scribe
Quarry

3

What was the name of a granite slab used by historians to decode Egyptian writing?

Rosetta Stone
Thoth
Papyrus
Quarry

4

Who was the Egyptian god of the sun?

Osiris
Amon-Re
Thoth
Horus

5

What is the name of the Egyptian writing system?

Rosetta Stone
Hieroglyphics
Scribe
Obelisk

6

Who was the god that was credited with introducing civilization to Egypt?

Thoth
Amon-Re
Osiris
Horus

7

What is the name of the famous stone statue of a creature with the body of a lion and the head of a person?

Thoth
Osiris
Ka
Great Sphinx

8

What is a tall, thin pillar with a pyramid-shaped top?

Obelisk
Papyrus
Ka
Thoth

9

What is the name of a reedy plant growing along the Nile?

Scribe
Quarry
Papyrus
Amon-Re

10

What is the life force, or an individual’s personality that is separated from the body?

Horus
Ka
Osiris
Thoth

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