CNE Final Exam Questions And Correct
Answers
What spiritual reason do Egyptologists say gave the pyramids their shape? - answerSo Pharoah
could climb up the sides to ascend to heaven and live forever
What main stones were used in the construction of the pyramids? - answerLimestone and
Granite
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What spiritual reason do Egyptologists say gave the pyramids their shape? - answer✔So Pharoah
could climb up the sides to ascend to heaven and live forever
What main stones were used in the construction of the pyramids? - answer✔Limestone and
Granite
How many workers do they estimate it took to build the pyramids? - answer✔20,000-30,000
Which poets did Plato predominately quote in The Republic? - answer✔Homer and Hesiod
What were the three classes that the Kallipolis were to be split into? - answer✔Guardians,
Auxiliaries, and Producers
From which class was the philosopher-king to be taken from? - answer✔Guardians/Rulers
What is a major conclusion about love in Ovid's Metamorphoses? - answer✔Love is negative
Who gets hit with Cupid's sharp golden arrow in Ovid's Metamorphoses? - answer✔Apollo
What was Ovid's first published work? - answer✔The Amores
What was the final naval battle during the second Persian War? - answer✔Battle of Salamis
What were the names of the Greek ships that made up the Navy during 5th century BC? -
answer✔Triremes
Who fought in the Battle of Aegospotami? - answer✔Athens vs Sparta
Who was featured on the Scorpion Macehead? - answer✔King Scorpion
Where do most people live in Egypt live? - answer✔Along the Nile
When the cross-sectional area of steady-state fluid flow increases, what happens to the velocity
of the fluid? - answer✔Velocity decreases
What astrological body did the Babylonians form their calendar around? - answer✔The moon
Why did the Babylonians limit their zodiac to twelve constellations rather than the eighteen it
could have been? - answer✔To match each month with one zodiac constellation
What were two ways the Greeks believed someone could become immortal? -
answer✔Immortality could be bestowed or earned by being remembered for glorious deeds
What is the fate of a majority of Greek heroes? - answer✔Tragedy
What makes Percy Jackson different from the majority of Greek heroes? - answer✔He chooses
to yield instead of pursuing glory
What is the tale that is attributed to the start of Persia invading Egypt? - answer✔Cambyses
asked to marry one of Amasis' daughters and Amasis tricked him into marrying a woman who
was not his daughter
Who was the goddess represented by cats and what was she the goddess of?
Bastet and she was the goddess of protection, pleasure, and good health - answer✔
What tactic did Cambyses use at the Battle of Pelusium? What is the significance of this tactic? -
answer✔He had Persian soldiers herd cats onto the battlefield and paint images of Bastet onto
their shields. It was the first documented use of psychological warfare
Where were the main cult centers of the Cult of Isis in Egypt located? - answer✔Alexandria and
Memphis
What was the theoretical main mechanism for the spread of the Cult of Isis? - answer✔Sailors
traveling across the Mediterranean
What is the best source we have to understand the practices of the Cult of Isis? - answer✔Book
11 of The Golden Ass
Why was the Rosetta Stone important? - answer✔Gave scholars a way to decipher ancient
Egyptian hieroglyphics
Why was the Rosetta Stone written? - answer✔in commemoration to Ptolemy V (first year
anniversary of his reign)
What a stelae? - answer✔a piece of rock that was usually inscribed with ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphics commemorating a person or event
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