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| 1 | True or false: Throughout the Pharaonic era, there were many important settlements in the Cairo area. |
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True |
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False |
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| 2 | Which direction are you travelling if you are in Lower Egypt and you are heading toward Upper Egypt? |
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north |
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south |
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east |
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west |
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| 3 | What was the name of the legendary first Pharaoh who unified Upper and Lower Egypt? |
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Rameses |
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Khefren |
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Menkaure |
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Menes |
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| 4 | The first pyramid ever built was constructed at: |
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Meidum |
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Giza |
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Sakkara |
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Dahshur |
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| 5 | Choose the correct order of the Pharaohs who built the three largest pyramids at Giza: |
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Imhotep, Sneferu, Rameses |
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Zoser, Khefren, Menkaure |
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Menkaure, Khufu, Khefren |
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Khufu, Khefren, Menkaure |
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| 6 | Who is the most likely group of people to have built the pyramids at Giza? |
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Jewish slaves |
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Egyptian farmers and peasants |
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The people of the lost continent of Atlantis |
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100,000 Egyptian slaves, who worked for twenty years |
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| 7 | The man who came up with the idea for the first pyramid, and who was later elevated to the status of a god was: |
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Imhotep |
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Sneferu |
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Zoser |
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Menes |
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| 8 | The city near Cairo that served as the capitol of Old Kingdom Egypt was called: |
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Giza |
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Memphis |
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Thebes |
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Akhetaten |
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| 9 | The last Pharaoh of Egypt was called: |
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Rameses |
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Sneferu |
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Menes |
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Cleopatra |
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| 10 | The term for sites like Giza, Sakkara and Dahshur is: |
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metropolis |
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necropolis |
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acropolis |
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capitol |
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