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