The Pyramids

The pyramids of ancient Egypt were built to:

• show spacecraft where to land

• provide an honorable burial for pharaohs

• be a model of the stars in the sky

• provide landmarks for travelers

The Egyptians believed the pharaohs would be happy after death if _______________________________________.

• they had their personal belongings with them

• they were cremated and released as smoke

• they came back to life as cats

• huge statues of them were constructed by the Nile

Today's archaeologists study the pyramids with __________________________________.

• robots

• satellites

• underground radar

• all of these

Much of the labor of building the pyramids was done by:

• soldiers

• enslaved people captured in foreign lands

• farmers, during the season when the Nile flooded

• members of the royal family

______________________________ also took part in building the pyramids.

• stonecutters

• surveyors

• engineers

• all of these

The first great engineer who built pyramids was __________________________.

• Mr. Poore

• Khafre

• Narmer

• Imhotep

The huge stones were carried to the building site on ___________________________.

• river barges traveling on the Nile.

• specially-built railroad cars

• the backs of extremely beefy cows

• Tuesday

At the building site, workers unloaded the blocks and dragged or pushed them up ____________ to be set in place at each new level of the pyramid.

• ladders

• ramps

• hills

• counterweight-driven elevators

In order to make calculations necessary to build pyramids, Egyptian mathematicians invented ____________________.

• the light bulb

• pi

• fractions

• irrational numbers

The Great Pyramid at Giza was built for ____________________________.

• King Khufu

• King Tutankhamun

• Queen Hatshepsut

• Cleopatra