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Assignment

QUESTION 1
During the 5th and 6th Dynasties, high ranking officials who ruled over remote areas were able to request the best and highest ranking royal artists from the capital cities to come and decorate their tombs.
True
False

QUESTION 2
According to our text, after Pepy II's reign, the one centralized power collapsed and eventually reformed around what two central cities?
Thebes and Memphis
Giza and Herakleopolis
Memphis and Giza
Thebes and Herakleopolis

QUESTION 3
Figures were positioned differently in front of offerings on funerary stelae. Describe the differences between those positions depicted in the Old Kingdom versus the First Intermediate period.

QUESTION 4
In pre-unification Theban relief style (the final stage of Upper Egyptian style), which of these is NOT a way in which facial features were represented?
A black band encircles the eye
The nose and ears are smaller and more delicate
A cosmetic line runs from the corner of the eye to the ear
The lips are thick and protruding

QUESTION 5
What was one of the most distinctive characteristic of the mature male figure in the First Intermediate Period?
Rolls of fat
Broad shoulders
Feet positioned together
Increased musculature

QUESTION 6
This relief fragment depicts one of the many wives of ________________, and is one of the only surviving pieces from his funerary complex at Deir el-Bahri.

QUESTION 7
On a (stolen) statue in kingNebhepetraMontuhotep's temple, the side of the throne is decorated with a sematawy emblem. What did this symbolize?
The King smiting foreigners
Unification of two lands
The spirit moving from ba to ka
Rebirth from the lotus

QUESTION 8
The highly colored stelae of Inhurnakht and his wife had several characteristics typical of the First Intermediate Period. This comes from the ___________________ cemetery in Upper Egypt

QUESTION 9
It is strongly believed that this pharaoh help reunite Ancient Egypt:
King Pepy II
King NebhepetraMontuhotep
Many Herakleopolis kings contributed
King Senwosret I

QUESTION 10
Based upon the layout of the offerings of this funerary stela of Maaty, would this be considered to be First Intermediate Period or Middle Kingdom?

First Intermediate Period
Middle Kingdom

QUESTION 11
At the dawn of Middle Kingdown, a new type of statue was introduced. Known as the ____________ statue, the figure is seated on the ground with knees drawn up to the chest and is wrapped in a tightly fitted garment.

QUESTION 12
In the Middle Kingdom, the interior of coffins would often have a _________________ at the north end of the east side, that the deceased would face while laying on their left side.

QUESTION 13
This piece of jewelry is featured in our text and was highly valued to the precious stones that had to be procured outside of Egypt.. Match the precious stone to the area that it has to be obtained from:

Turquoise                      A. Sinai
Carnelian                       B. Eastern Desert
White lapis lazuli            C. present-day Afghanistan.

QUESTION 14
Which of these animals is generally NOT considered a strong protective symbol:
Crocodiles
Lions
Baboons
Cows

QUESTION 15
Elite figures would often been shown with a receding hair line and bald patch to show their wisdom and maturity.
True
False

QUESTION 16
The area around Dendera in Upper Egypt served as a cult center for which goddess?
Hathor
Nut
Nephthys
Isis

QUESTION 17
In the First Intermediate period and Early Middle Kingdom, pyramid texts were expanded to include guides and maps for the afterlife. These were now known as ____________?

QUESTION 18
The lotus flower was considered a symbol of:
Fertility
Re-birth
Reunification
Smiting

QUESTION 19
This wand or stick contains protective animals and is found in our textbook.The figure of Ipi has limbs of a lion, but a head of a:
Snake
Crocodile
Frog
Hippopotamus.