- 1. What is the date range of the Faras Cathedral wall paintings located on the first floor?
A) 9th to 13th century
B) 14th to 16th century
C) 1st to 4th century
D) 5th to 7th century
- 2. Which scholar contributed to the catalogue of Greek inscriptions found on Nubian funerary epitaphs?
A) Amanikhabale
B) Adam Lajtar
C) Jacques Van der Vliet
D) Djehuti-hotep
- 3. Which scholar contributed to the catalogue of Coptic inscriptions found on Nubian funerary epitaphs?
A) Ramses II
B) Sesostris III
C) Jacques Van der Vliet
D) Adam Lajtar
- 4. What is the northernmost location mentioned for the origin of the funerary epitaphs?
A) Soba
B) Basa
C) Faras
D) Debeira
- 5. What was the primary cause for the relocation of the temples found in the museum garden?
A) Urban development in Khartoum
B) The expansion of the National Museum
C) The creation of the Lake Nasser reservoir
D) Damage from the 1964 earthquake
- 6. What is the temple of Hatshepsut of Buhen dedicated to?
A) Horus
B) Amun
C) Dedwen
D) Khnum
- 7. To which god is the temple of Kumma dedicated?
A) Horus
B) Dedwen
C) Amun
D) Khnum
- 8. Where were the two Meroitic frog statues representing the water-goddess Heket discovered?
A) Faras
B) Soba
C) Argo Island
D) Basa village
- 9. What stylistic influence is displayed by the unfinished colossal statues from Tabo?
A) Meroitic
B) Coptic
C) Roman
D) Greek
- 10. How many man-eating lions from Basa village flank the Monumental Alley?
A) Two
B) Eight
C) Six
D) Four
- 11. Which king is associated with the cartouches found on the man-eating lion at the Monumental Alley?
A) Djehuti-hotep
B) Ramses II
C) Sesostris III
D) Amanikhabale
- 12. Where is the new generation of Sudanese archeologists primarily trained?
A) Warsaw University
B) Leiden University
C) UNESCO Training Center
D) University of Khartoum
- 13. What deity is the temple of Semna dedicated to?
A) Amun and Ramses II
B) Dedwen and Sesostris III
C) Khnum and Heket
D) Horus and Hatshepsut
- 14. In the temple of Hatshepsut of Buhen, how is Hatshepsut portrayed?
A) As a priestess
B) As a king
C) As a woman
D) As a goddess
- 15. What do the statues of Beset in the museum garden represent?
A) God of war
B) God of harvests
C) Protector of pregnant women and newborns
D) God of Nile cataracts
- 16. How many areas are the objects of the National Museum of Sudan displayed in?
A) Two
B) Six
C) Four
D) Eight
- 17. Where is the Main Hall of the museum located?
A) In the garden
B) Ground floor
C) Outside the building
D) First floor
- 18. Where are the gallery objects located?
A) Monumental Alley
B) First floor
C) Ground floor
D) In the garden
- 19. What is the height of the Taharqa statue?
A) 8 meters
B) 2 meters
C) 4 meters
D) 6 meters
- 20. Which material is the statue of Taharqa made of?
A) Granite
B) Limestone
C) Sandstone
D) Marble
- 21. Who sacked Napata in 591 BCE?
A) The Greeks
B) The Romans
C) The Egyptians
D) The Kushites
- 22. Who excavated the buried Taharqa statue in 1916?
A) Howard Carter
B) Flinders Petrie
C) Jean Leclant
D) George Reisner
- 23. Which culture produced the black-topped red burnished pottery found in the museum?
A) Meroitic
B) A-Group
C) Kerma
D) C-Group
- 24. Where was the Stela of the chief of Teh-khet Amenemhat found?
A) Sai
B) Soleb
C) Debeira West
D) Naqa
- 25. What is the goddess Beset holding in her left hand?
A) A sword
B) An undulating snake
C) A lotus flower
D) A scepter
- 26. How many digits does Beset have on her left hand?
A) 6
B) 5
C) 3
D) 4
- 27. What animal features are on the head of the goddess Beset?
A) Cat
B) Falcon
C) Bull
D) Lion
- 28. What is the unknown Meroitic king represented as in his statue?
A) A pharaoh
B) A priest
C) A scribe
D) An archer
- 29. What is the abbreviation for the National Museum of Sudan?
A) NMS
B) SNM
C) NATM
D) SUDNM
- 30. In what year was the National Museum of Sudan established as a national museum?
A) 1971
B) 1955
C) 1980
D) 2023
- 31. When was the building housing the National Museum of Sudan constructed?
A) 2025
B) 1960
C) 1955
D) 1971
- 32. What was the estimated number of objects the museum held before the civil war?
A) 250,000
B) 100,000
C) 50,000
D) 10,000
- 33. Which group took over the museum on 2 June 2023?
A) Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
B) The French Archaeological Unit
C) Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
D) United Nations Peacekeepers
- 34. Who is the director of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM) who accused the RSF of destroying 90% of the holdings?
A) Ikhlas Abdel Latif
B) A representative from the Louvre
C) The Guardian Correspondent
D) Ghalia Garelnabi
- 35. Which organization helped the museum create a virtual site for lost artefacts?
A) French Archaeological Unit for Sudanese Antiquities (SFDAS)
B) The Continent Magazine
C) The National Museum of Egypt
D) Sudanese Armed Forces
- 36. What specific part of the collection did Ghalia Garelnabi accuse the RSF of looting?
A) Textile collections
B) Colonial era weapons
C) Modern art paintings
D) Archaeological gold collection
- 37. In which city area is the National Museum of Sudan located?
A) al-Mugran
B) Omdurman
C) Bahri
D) Khartoum North
- 38. What historical culture was represented in the museum collections alongside the X-Group and medieval Makuria?
A) Roman Empire
B) Kerma Culture
C) Modern Sudanese Culture
D) Greek Civilization
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