Quiz 004

Episode 4 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 004: Divine Judgment. See what you remember about Ancient Egyptian history and the Book of the Dead by clicking “START” below!

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Which two words below best describe the central Ancient Egyptian concept of ma’at?

Agricultural productivity

Divine vengeance

Maritime domination

Romantic love

Universal order

2 / 10

Ancient Egypt’s name for the Book of the Dead was:

The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day

The Utterances of Senwosret

The Lamentations of Thoth

The Grave Curses of Anubis

The Cycle of Ma'at

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Which Ancient Egyptian god, the deity of resurrection, transition, and the afterlife, began to come into prominence at a broad level between about 2100 and 1800 BCE?

Nut

Nepthys

Ptah

Tefnut

Osiris

4 / 10

During Egypt’s Old Kingdom (c. 2650-2100), what was the state’s official doctrine on the afterlife?

The pharaoh would go through an astral portal and bring about heaven on earth.

Only the pharaoh could enjoy the rewards of the afterlife.

The afterlife was available to all except for slaves.

Only unblemished children and animals could go to the afterlife.

There was no afterlife for anyone.

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The Great Pyramid of Khufu, the largest structure in at Giza and the tallest man made structure on earth for thousands of years, was erected in which century?

The 3600s BCE.

The 4600s BCE.

The 2600s BCE.

The 1600s BCE.

The 600s BCE.

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A central doctrine of Christianity is that we have a material and spiritual existence. Comparatively, what did Ancient Egyptians believe?

That there is no spiritual dimension to human existence.

That there are many components of human identity that span the gamut between material and spiritual.

That there is no physical dimension to human existence.

Ancient Egypt's doctrine of the materiality and spirituality of selfhood is indistinguishable from Christianity's.

That there is no individual selfhood, only a collective selfhood, emblematized by monolithic structures like pyramids and obelisks.

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Based on what we read in the Book of the Dead, Ancient Egyptians believed that those who acted cruelly and uncharitably would be judged unfairly in the ceremony called The Weighing of the Heart. What would happen to these cursed souls?

They would be given a chance to redeem themselves by the scribal god, Thoth.

They would be forced to work for eternity in the netherworld necropolis of Anubis.

Their families would be killed by Set, the Ancient Egyptian deity of violence and tumult.

They would burn eternally in a subterranean realm beneath the Red Sea.

They would be eaten by a monster called the Am-met.

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With the collapse of the Old Kingdom, what new religious idea surfaced in Ancient Egypt between about 2100-1800, during the First Intermediate Period?

That not only the Pharaoh, but everyone could enjoy an afterlife.

That Mesopotamia, rather than Egypt, was the center of the universe.

That the state must provide ceremonial tombs to all except for slaves and criminals.

That the lands beyond the Red Sea were fated by the god Anubis for conquest by the Egyptians.

That mummification was no longer necessary and cremation was now the preferred treatment of the dead.

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Which of the following best describes the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead?

A compilation of the statements of Senwosret III, later redacted by the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut.

A leather bound parchment book buried with each Ancient Egyptian in the Pharaoh's royal family.

A compilation of the statements and proverbs of the Middle Kingdom Pharaoh Senwosret III.

A loosely standardized collection of spells and recitations buried with Ancient Egyptians in various combinations.

The hieroglyphic inscriptions cut into the extensive inner tomb walls of the Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.

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There are sections of the Book of the Dead that Egyptologists call “rubrics.” What do these rubrics do?

They are dividing materials between the book's chapters, consisting of elaborate portraits detailing scenes from Ancient Egyptian history.

They are comparative passages that set Egyptian religious practices alongside Mesopotamian ones, always favoring Egyptian theology.

They are blank sections of linen designed to hold food for the deceased's ka to eat before her resurrection.

They are blank sections of linen designed to go around the back of a mummy.

They set out rules for how chapters of the Book of the Dead are to be correctly read and used.

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