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Reading Questions

Choose the best answer.

1. Which ingredient is not used to soak the linen to wrap the body?
a. wine
b. spices

c. scented oil
d. baking powder

2. What do the ancient Egyptians do with the heart of a corpse?

a. They put it in a jar.
b. They soak the heart with scented oil.
c. They leave it in the body.

d. The family members of the deceased would keep it in the house.

3. Why did they throw away the brain when they mummified a corpse?
a. They believed the brain decays too fast.

b. They thought the brain was too heavy and complicated when mummifying
a corpse.
c. They believed the brain did all the thinking, and contained bad memories
from the past life.
d. They believed the heart did all the thinking, so the brain wasn’t needed.

4. The Egyptians had to mummify their corpses
a. to help their spirits to rest in peace forever
b. to help their spirits to recognize where they are from

c. to help their spirits to find their family members
d. to help their spirits to indentify their physical bodies

5. What would the ancient Egyptians do after someone passes away?

a. leave the body in the backyard
b. bury the body right away without doing anything special
c. get ready for mummification

d. freeze the body so it doesn’t decay

6. The word remove means
a. discard

b. include
c. align
d. claim

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