Ancient Egypt

Question 1

From the book of the dead: Where does the speaker want to descend to?

Answer 1

Land of Eternity

Question 2

From the book of the dead: What is the point/main idea/ name of the chapter of this prayer

Answer 2

Not letting the body perish

Question 3

Who wrote the Adoration of the Disk?

Answer 3

King Akhenaten and Princess Nefertiti

Question 4

What does the narrator say about the houses in the Adoration of the Disk?

Answer 4

The houses are like tombs

Question 5

What are the only things that move at night in the Adoration of the Disk?

Answer 5

The Lions and the Serpent

Question 6

What is the disk in Adoration of the Disk?

Answer 6

The Sun

Question 7

When the sun rises, what is Akhenaten’s overall feeling?

Answer 7

He loves and worships the sun

Question 8

In Kingswater Canal, where is the speaker going/what are they attending?

Answer 8

Downstream to the Sun festival

Question 9

In Kingswater Canal, who is the speaker hoping to see

Answer 9

“My (their) truelove”

Question 10

What is the speaker going to use for a fan in Kingswater Canal

Answer 10

A branch

Question 11

What is an unguent?

Answer 11

ointments/perfume

Question 12

Who is the sun festival worshipping (Lord of both lands) in Kingswater Canal

Answer 12

The Sun god Ra

Question 13

Who does the speaker compare themselves to in Kingswater Canal?

Answer 13

A princess, a bride, a splendid lady

Question 14

In Whenever I Leave You, I Go Out Of Breath, what does the heart do?

Answer 14

Stands still and speaks clear

Question 15

In Whenever I Leave You, what word describes the heart?

Answer 15

Stuttering

Question 16

In Whenever I Leave You, how would the datecakes taste?

Answer 16

“Would be salt to me now”

Question 17

In Whenever I Leave You, what would pomegranate wine taste like?

Answer 17

Bitter as birdgall

Question 18

In the Osiris myth, Osiris becomes God of the ____

Answer 18

underworld

Question 19

In the Osiris myth, what does Osiris rule?

Answer 19

The fertile lands (Egypt)

Question 20

In the Osiris myth, what does Set rule?

Answer 20

Desert lands

Question 21

In the Osiris myth, how does Set kill Osiris twice?

Answer 21

Osiris is trapped in a coffin and pushed into the Nile, and then chopped into 16 pieces

Question 22

In the Osiris myth, on the shores of what ancient city does Osiris’ coffin wash up?

Answer 22

Byblos

Question 23

In the Osiris myth, what type of tree does the coffin turn into?

Answer 23

A tamarisk tree

Question 24

In the Osiris myth, who traveled across Egypt to find Osiris’ body parts

Answer 24

Isis and Nephthys

Question 25

In the Osiris myth, who is Horus?

Answer 25

Osiris and Isis’ son

Question 26

In Rhodopis, where was Rhodopis from?

Answer 26

Greece

Question 27

In Rhodopis, how did Rhodopis get to Egypt?

Answer 27

She was kidnapped and sold into slavery

Question 28

In Rhodopis, who took Rhodopis’ slipper?

Answer 28

Horus

Question 29

In Rhodopis, where was Rhodopis hiding when the pharaoh came by?

Answer 29

In the rushes

Question 30

In Rhodopis, why was Rhodopis the most Egyptian?

Answer 30

Her eyes were green like the nile, her skin was pink like the lotus, and her hair was like papyrus