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  • 1. Where does Nefertiti first appear in scenes?
A) Karnak
B) Thebes
C) Memphis
D) Amarna
  • 2. In whose damaged tomb is an early depiction of Nefertiti thought to be found?
A) Huya
B) Parennefer
C) Meryre II
D) Ramose
  • 3. What was Parennefer's title?
A) Pharaoh
B) Royal butler
C) Vizier
D) Steward
  • 4. Which king is accompanied by Nefertiti in the early scenes?
A) Ay
B) Tutankhamun
C) Amenhotep IV
D) Horemheb
  • 5. What god are the king and queen shown worshiping in early scenes?
A) Amun
B) The Aten
C) Osiris
D) Ra
  • 6. In whose tomb is Nefertiti shown standing behind Amenhotep IV in the Window of Appearance?
A) Meryre II
B) Parennefer
C) Ramose
D) Huya
  • 7. What was Ramose's title?
A) High Priest
B) Royal butler
C) Vizier
D) Steward
  • 8. What structure at Karnak was dedicated to Nefertiti?
A) The Mansion of the Benben
B) The Northern Palace
C) The Great Royal Palace
D) The Temple of Amun
  • 9. Which daughter is depicted with Nefertiti at the Mansion of the Benben?
A) Ankhesenamun
B) Neferneferuaten
C) Meritaten
D) Meketaten
  • 10. Which princess participates in some scenes at the Mansion of the Benben alongside Meritaten?
A) Nefertiti
B) Meketaten
C) Hatshepsut
D) Cleopatra
  • 11. How often is Nefertiti depicted compared to her husband in scenes dated to the first five years?
A) Half as frequently
B) Almost twice as frequently
C) Three times as frequently
D) The exact same amount
  • 12. What did Nefertiti's high frequency of depiction indicate during the early period?
A) Her exile from court
B) Her demotion to a lesser wife
C) Her lack of political influence
D) Her exceptionally high visibility and political importance
  • 13. Besides supporting her husband, what unusual action is Nefertiti depicted doing?
A) Building pyramids
B) Leading armies into foreign lands alone
C) Acting as high priest of Amun
D) Smiting the enemy
  • 14. What decorated Nefertiti's throne in some depictions?
A) Lotus flowers
B) Captive enemies
C) Hieroglyphs of Amun
D) Gold statues of cats
  • 15. In what year of his reign did Amenhotep IV decide to move the capital?
A) Twelfth year
B) Fourth year
C) Fifth year
D) First year
  • 16. What was the new capital city named?
A) Memphis
B) Thebes
C) Karnak
D) Akhetaten
  • 17. What was Akhetaten also known as today?
A) Saqqara
B) Luxor
C) Giza
D) Amarna
  • 18. In which year did Amenhotep IV officially change his name to Akhenaten?
A) Twelfth year
B) Fifth year
C) Fourth year
D) Sixteenth year
  • 19. What was Nefertiti known as after the name change?
A) Meritaten-Nefertiti
B) Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti
C) Ankhesenamun
D) Nefertiti-Aten
  • 20. What type of religion did Egypt shift towards under Akhenaten?
A) Strict polytheism
B) Atheism
C) Christianity
D) Monolatry or henotheism
  • 21. What marked the boundaries of the new city of Akhetaten?
A) Gold pillars
B) Large statues of the king
C) A massive stone wall
D) Boundary stelae of years 4 and 5
  • 22. Where would Nefertiti and her family have resided in the new city?
A) The Valley of the Kings
B) The Temple of Karnak
C) The Mansion of the Benben
D) The Great Royal Palace and possibly the Northern Palace
  • 23. Who was Nefertiti's steward during the time at Amarna?
A) Huya
B) Parennefer
C) Ramose
D) Meryre II
  • 24. What was Meryre II's role as Nefertiti's steward?
A) Commander of the army
B) High priest of Amun
C) In charge of running her household
D) Architect of the capital
  • 25. In which tombs are inscriptions dated to Year 2nd month of Peret, Day 8 found showing foreign tribute?
A) Tutankhamun and Ay
B) Parennefer and Ramose
C) Huya and Meryre II
D) Horemheb and Ahmose
  • 26. What year is associated with the foreign tribute inscriptions in Huya and Meryre II's tombs?
A) Year 5
B) Year 4
C) Year 16
D) Year 12
  • 27. Which regions are shown bringing gifts of gold and precious items to the royal couple?
A) Babylon and Assyria
B) Greece and Rome
C) Kharu and Kush
D) Cush and Punt
  • 28. Where are Kharu and Kush located relative to Egypt in the text?
A) Kharu is the south and Kush is the north
B) Both are in the east
C) Kharu is the north and Kush is the south
D) Both are in the west
  • 29. How many daughters are shown attending the royal couple in a kiosk in Meryre II's tomb?
A) Six
B) Four
C) Two
D) Three
  • 30. Who excavated two representations of Nefertiti from the middle to later part of Akhenaten's reign?
A) Flinders Petrie
B) Gaston Maspero
C) Howard Carter
D) Jean-François Champollion
  • 31. How is Nefertiti depicted in the Petrie limestone sketch?
A) Wearing a vulture headdress
B) Uncapped with short hair
C) Wearing her distinctive tall crown
D) Wearing a double crown of Egypt
  • 32. What material is the small inlay head (Petrie Museum Number UC103) made of?
A) Black granite
B) Yellow sandstone
C) Green limestone
D) Reddish-brown quartzite
  • 33. When may princess Meketaten have died?
A) Year 13 or 14
B) Year 4 or 5
C) Year 16 or 17
D) Year 1 or 2
  • 34. Who is shown mourning princess Meketaten?
A) Only Nefertiti and Akhenaten
B) All six princesses and Meryre II
C) Parennefer and Ramose
D) Nefertiti, Akhenaten, and three princesses
  • 35. Where does the last dated inscription naming Nefertiti and Akhenaten come from?
A) A building inscription in the limestone quarry at Deir Abu Hinnis
B) The Great Royal Palace walls
C) The boundary stelae of Amarna
D) The Mansion of the Benben
  • 36. To what year does the inscription at Deir Abu Hinnis date?
A) Year 17 of the king's reign
B) Year 12 of the king's reign
C) Year 4 of the king's reign
D) Year 16 of the king's reign
  • 37. In which year of his reign is Akhenaten known to have died?
A) 4th year
B) 17th year
C) 16th year
D) 12th year
  • 38. Where did Akhenaten die?
A) In Memphis
B) In Thebes
C) At Amarna
D) At Karnak
  • 39. Which dynasty of Ancient Egypt does Nefertiti belong to?
A) 18th Dynasty
B) 20th Dynasty
C) 25th Dynasty
D) 19th Dynasty
  • 40. What was the name of the exclusivist and possibly monotheistic religion promoted by Nefertiti and her husband?
A) Osiris worship
B) Ra-Horakhty
C) Atenism
D) Amunism
  • 41. What celestial body was Atenism centered on?
A) Mars
B) Sirius
C) The sun disc
D) The moon
  • 42. What throne name do some scholars believe Nefertiti used when she ruled briefly as a female pharaoh?
A) Hatshepsut
B) Meritaten
C) Neferneferuaten
D) Sobekneferu
  • 43. Which pharaoh ascended to the throne after Nefertiti's possible brief reign as pharaoh?
A) Tutankhamun
B) Ay
C) Akhenaten
D) Horemheb
  • 44. To which traditional city was the capital relocated after Nefertiti's death?
A) Giza
B) Alexandria
C) Thebes
D) Memphis
  • 45. In which century was Nefertiti made famous by the discovery of her ancient bust?
A) 19th century
B) 21st century
C) 18th century
D) 20th century
  • 46. In which museum is Nefertiti's famous bust currently located?
A) Berlin's Neues Museum
B) The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
C) The Louvre
D) The British Museum
  • 47. Which sculptor is attributed with creating Nefertiti's famous bust?
A) Senenmut
B) Thutmose
C) Hemiunu
D) Imhotep
  • 48. Where was the bust of Nefertiti excavated from?
A) The Great Temple of Aten
B) The ruins of Memphis
C) A royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings
D) Thutmose's buried studio complex
  • 49. What does the ancient sentence nfr.t jj.tj, which formed Nefertiti's name, mean?
A) "the sun disc shines"
B) "the beautiful one has come"
C) "mistress of the two lands"
D) "beloved of Aten"
  • 50. What was the name of Nefertiti's sister?
A) Mutbenret
B) Meritaten
C) Tadukhipa
D) Tey
  • 51. What title did Tey's husband, Ay, carry?
A) "Overseer of the Treasury"
B) "Commander of the Army"
C) "High Priest of Amun"
D) "God's Father"
  • 52. Which of Nefertiti's daughters married Tutankhamun and changed her name to Ankhesenamun?
A) Setepenre
B) Meritaten
C) Meketaten
D) Ankhesenpaaten
  • 53. Did genetic studies on discovered mummies suggest that Nefertiti was the mother of Tutankhamun?
A) The study was inconclusive
B) No, she was not
C) Yes, but only through adoption
D) Yes, she was his biological mother
  • 54. What elevated role did many scholars believe Nefertiti had besides great royal wife?
A) Co-regent
B) Sole Pharaoh
C) Goddess
D) High Priestess
  • 55. In archaeological sites, Nefertiti is depicted as equal in stature to whom?
A) A King
B) A Priest
C) A Scribe
D) A God
  • 56. What activity is Nefertiti shown doing that is typically reserved for rulers?
A) Hunting lions
B) Weaving linen
C) Sailing a boat
D) Riding a chariot
  • 57. What title did Neferneferuaten hold?
A) Great Royal Wife
B) High Priestess of Aten
C) Queen Mother
D) Female Pharaoh
  • 58. Which previous female Pharaoh is mentioned as a comparison to Nefertiti's assumed kingship?
A) Sobekneferu
B) Cleopatra
C) Merneith
D) Hatshepsut
  • 59. According to the text, it seems less possible that Nefertiti disguised herself as whom?
A) A soldier
B) A male
C) A priest
D) A merchant
  • 60. What male alter ego is mentioned in relation to the theory that Nefertiti disguised herself?
A) Ay
B) Thutmose
C) Smenkhkare
D) Horemheb
  • 61. Which archaeologist and Egyptologist theorized that Nefertiti returned to Thebes to rule?
A) Zahi Hawass's colleague
B) Howard Carter
C) Dr. Zahi Hawass
D) Flinders Petrie
  • 62. Whose monuments were subject to deliberate erasures that were previously mistakenly thought to belong to Nefertiti falling into disgrace?
A) Amenhotep III
B) Kiya
C) Smenkhkare
D) Meritaten
  • 63. Which stela potentially depicts Nefertiti as equal in status to the pharaoh?
A) The Year 16 Inscription
B) The Amarna Stela
C) The Coregency Stela
D) The KV62 box inscription
  • 64. In what year was the inscription discovered within Quarry 320 announced?
A) 2016
B) 2012
C) 2009
D) 2020
  • 65. What writing medium and color were used for the five-line inscription found in Quarry 320?
A) Black carbon ink
B) Red ochre ink
C) Chiseled relief carving
D) Blue pigment paint
  • 66. Who was carrying out building work on the Small Aten Temple in Amarna according to the Year 16 inscription?
A) Penthu
B) James P. Allen
C) Smenkhkare
D) Aidan Dodson
  • 67. Which Egyptologist published an updated paper in a 2016 Göttinger Miszellen article identifying the female pharaoh as Nefertiti?
A) James Peter Allen
B) Van der Perre
C) Chris Naunton
D) William J. Murnane
  • 68. What was the primary intention behind Akhenaten appointing a female coregent?
A) To conquer neighboring lands
B) To build the Small Aten Temple
C) To safeguard Tutankhuaten's accession
D) To replace Nefertiti permanently
  • 69. What was Amenhotep III also referred to as in relation to the Aten?
A) Akhet-en-hyes
B) Penthu
C) Tjehen-Aten
D) Neferkheperure Waenre
  • 70. Who authored the 2020 book titled 'Nefertiti: Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt'?
A) James P. Allen
B) Aidan Dodson
C) Chris Naunton
D) Athena van der Perre
  • 71. Which artifact's box features a strip between two knobs that places Neferneferuaten between her husband and eldest daughter?
A) The Louvre ushabti fragments
B) KV62 box
C) The Quarry 320 inscription
D) The Coregency Stela
  • 72. Which of the following researchers is NOT explicitly listed as agreeing that the female pharaoh was Nefertiti?
A) Aidan Dodson
B) Chris Naunton
C) William J. Murnane
D) Nozomu Kawai
  • 73. What type of ink was used for the inscription found in Dayr Abū Ḥinnis?
A) Blue lapis
B) Red ochre
C) Black carbon
D) Green malachite
  • 74. In what year did Tutankhaten die or transition into Tutankhamun according to the text's dating?
A) 1400 BC
B) 1250 BC
C) 1200 BC
D) 1331 BC
  • 75. What part of the Royal Tomb was potentially intended for Nefertiti's use?
A) The unfinished annex
B) The roof terrace
C) The entrance corridor
D) The main burial chamber
  • 76. Which unfinished tomb is considered the most likely candidate for Nefertiti's exclusive use?
A) Tomb 29
B) KV35
C) Tomb 55
D) KV62
  • 77. Why was Nefertiti not interred in Tomb 29?
A) It was already occupied by Akhenaten
B) It was too small
C) It was sealed permanently by Ay
D) It lacks a burial chamber
  • 78. Who found two female mummies cached inside the tomb of Amenhotep II in 1898?
A) Victor Loret
B) Athena van der Perre
C) Joann Fletcher
D) Nicholas Reeves
  • 79. Which magazine published an article in 2001 suggesting the Elder Lady might be Nefertiti?
A) National Geographic
B) Archaeology Today
C) Kmt magazine
D) Ancient Egypt Magazine
  • 80. Who was the 'Elder Lady' actually shown to be?
A) Tiye
B) Nefertiti
C) Meritaten
D) Ankhesenamun
  • 81. When did Joann Fletcher announce that Nefertiti's mummy may have been the Younger Lady?
A) 15 August 1898
B) 10 January 2001
C) 22 November 2015
D) 9 June 2003
  • 82. What is Joann Fletcher's specialty?
A) Ancient hair
B) DNA sequencing
C) Ancient pottery
D) Hieroglyphic translation
  • 83. According to Hawass's research project, who was the Younger Lady?
A) Tiye
B) Kiya
C) Tutankhamun's biological mother
D) Nefertiti
  • 84. In what year did English archaeologist Nicholas Reeves make an announcement about voids behind Tutankhamun's tomb walls?
A) 2001
B) 2015
C) 2003
D) 1898
  • 85. Which tomb contained the two female mummies, one of which has been suggested as Nefertiti?
A) KV62
B) KV55
C) KV21
D) KV35
  • 86. Approximately how old was the female mummy when she died, according to CT scanning?
A) 45
B) 20
C) 30
D) 60
  • 87. The possible identification of Nefertiti in KV21 is based on her association with which other mummy?
A) The Younger Lady
B) Hatshepsut
C) Ankhesenamun
D) Tiye
  • 88. Where was the ancient document concerning the Hittite letters found?
A) Thebes
B) Karkemish
C) Hattusa
D) Cairo
  • 89. Which Hittite ruler received a letter from an Egyptian queen while laying siege to Karkemish?
A) Ay
B) Akhenaten
C) Zannanza
D) Suppiluliuma I
  • 90. What was the name of the Hittite prince eventually sent to Egypt?
A) Zannanza
B) Akhenaten
C) Suppiluliuma
D) Ay
  • 91. What happened to the Hittite prince en route to Egypt?
A) He died, perhaps murdered
B) He got lost in the desert
C) He was captured by Egyptian rebels
D) He successfully married the queen
  • 92. Which scholar believes Nefertiti might be the Dakhamunzu in the Amarna correspondence?
A) Athena van der Perre
B) Aidan Dodson
C) Nicholas Reeves
D) Maria M. Kloska
  • 93. Who portrayed Nefertiti in the 1973 production Nefertiti and Akhenaton?
A) Riann Steele
B) Sovra Wilson-Dickson
C) Jacqueline Benson
D) Geraldine Chaplin
  • 94. Who portrayed Nefertiti in the 2012 Doctor Who episode 'Dinosaurs on a Spaceship'?
A) Sovra Wilson-Dickson
B) Riann Steele
C) Jacqueline Benson
D) Geraldine Chaplin
  • 95. In which 2012 Doctor Who episode did Riann Steele portray Nefertiti?
A) Red River
B) Tomb of the Sun King
C) Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
D) Nefertiti and Akhenaton
  • 96. In what month and year was the song 'Nefertiti, Sun Goddess' written?
A) January 1973
B) October 2002
C) December 1998
D) November 2012
  • 97. Between which years was Red River originally published?
A) 1973-1975
B) 2012-2024
C) 1995-2002
D) 1998-2002
  • 98. Which of the following media is associated with Red River besides the manga?
A) A 2024 fantasy novel
B) A 2026 anime
C) A 1973 short film
D) A 2012 television episode
  • 99. In what year was Aidan Dodson's book 'Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt' published?
A) 2022
B) 2020
C) 2014
D) 2016
  • 100. Who wrote the journal article 'The Year 16 graffito of Akhenaten in Dayr Abū Ḥinnis'?
A) Athena van der Perre
B) Juan Antonio Belmonte
C) Maria M. Kloska
D) Aidan Dodson
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