Chapter 5.2/5.3 Practice Quiz

Egyptians who wrote and kept records.

• Famers

• Priests

• Government

  officials

• Scribes

Why did the Egyptians want to make gods happy?

• Nile would flood and crops would grow

• Protect the cities

• it would make the rulers happy.

• It would make the priests happy.

What is this location called?

• Nile River

• Memphis

• Nile Delta

• Lower Egypt

Which social role is on the bottom?

• Slaves

• Government officials

• Nobles

• Pharoh

Egyptians were enslaved if they had_________.

• debts

• committed crimes

• captured in war

• all the above

Who cared for the temples and held ceremonies to keep the gods happy?

• Farmers

• Slaves

• Craftspeople

• Priests

Considered a god by the Egyptians.

• Nobles

• Priests

• Pharaoh

• Farmers

Made up the largest segment of the population.

• Scribes

• Nobles

• Merchants

• Farmers

Priests studied ____ for religious reasons

• plants

• sky

• animals

• painitngs

Egyptians used ____ day cycle of star to create the first practical calendar.

• 250

• 265

• 365

• 65