- 1. What is another common name for the Horus of Gold title?
A) Golden Horus name
B) Prenomen
C) Serekh name
D) Nebty name
- 2. What animal image typically featured in the Horus of Gold name?
A) A duck
B) Horus falcon
C) A sedge
D) A bee
- 3. The Horus of Gold falcon image was typically perched above or beside the hieroglyph for what?
A) The moon
B) The sun
C) Water
D) Gold
- 4. One belief regarding the meaning of the Horus of Gold title is that it represents the triumph of Horus over whom?
A) Ra
B) Cleopatra VII
C) Osiris
D) Set
- 5. In the context of the Horus of Gold name, the symbol for gold can be taken to mean that Horus was what?
A) Son of Ra
B) Lord of the Two Lands
C) Superior to his foes
D) King of Upper and Lower Egypt
- 6. In the ancient Egyptian mind, gold was strongly associated with what concept?
A) Eternity
B) Agriculture
C) Water
D) War
- 7. The Horus of Gold name was similar to which other name in terms of framing?
A) Birth name
B) Nebty name
C) Prenomen
D) Nomen
- 8. What framing was typically absent from the Horus of Gold name?
A) Duck and sun symbols
B) Serekh only
C) Hieroglyphic cartouche only
D) Cartouche or serekh
- 9. What is another term for the pharaoh's throne name?
A) Nomen
B) Prenomen
C) Golden Horus name
D) Nebty name
- 10. The throne name is the first of how many names written inside a cartouche?
A) Two
B) One
C) Three
D) Four
- 11. The pharaoh's throne name usually accompanied which title?
A) nsw-bity
B) za
C) nb tꜣwy
D) nesit Ta-szema
- 12. What does the royal titulary of ancient Egypt symbolize?
A) Military strategy and economic status
B) Architectural skill and wealth
C) Family lineage and royal marriage
D) Worldly power and holy might
- 13. What else did the royal titulary act as besides symbolizing power and might?
A) A legal contract for land ownership
B) A calendar of religious festivals
C) A tax collection record
D) A sort of mission statement for the reign
- 14. How many names made up the full royal titulary?
A) Six
B) Four
C) Five
D) Three
- 15. When did the full titulary come into standard usage?
A) Old Kingdom
B) First Dynasty
C) Middle Kingdom
D) New Kingdom
- 16. Until what historical period did the full titulary remain in use?
A) Greek Era
B) Ptolemaic Kingdom
C) Assyrian Period
D) Roman Empire
- 17. Which two female deities protected the king under the Nebty name?
A) Nekhbet and Wadjet
B) Hathor and Nut
C) Bastet and Sekhmet
D) Isis and Nephthys
- 18. During which dynasty did the Gold Falcon name begin to be created?
A) Twelfth Dynasty
B) First Dynasty
C) Second Dynasty
D) Fourth Dynasty
- 19. What does a serekh represent?
A) A fortress wall
B) A royal boat
C) A temple gateway
D) A palace façade
- 20. Which Second Dynasty pharaoh used an image of the god Set instead of Horus?
A) Khasekhemwy
B) Semerkhet
C) Seth-Peribsen
D) Narmer
- 21. Who succeeded Seth-Peribsen and placed symbols of both Set and Horus above his name?
A) Menes
B) Semerkhet
C) Khasekhemwy
D) Djoser
- 22. By the time of which period was the Horus name often written without the enclosing serekh?
A) Middle Kingdom
B) New Kingdom
C) Old Kingdom
D) Predynastic Period
- 23. Nekhbet, the patron deity of Upper Egypt, is represented by which animal?
A) A cobra
B) A jackal
C) A falcon
D) A vulture
- 24. Wadjet, the patron deity of Lower Egypt, is represented by which animal?
A) A crocodile
B) A lioness
C) A cobra
D) A vulture
- 25. Which First Dynasty pharaoh first definitively used the Nebty name?
A) Semerkhet
B) Khasekhemwy
C) Seth-Peribsen
D) Narmer
- 26. When did the Nebty name become a fully independent title?
A) Twelfth Dynasty
B) Fourth Dynasty
C) Second Dynasty
D) First Dynasty
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