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1. What is the lecture mainly about?
A. The role of climate science in the dating of historical events
B. Two conflicting views of a period in ancient Egyptian history
C. Efforts to identify the author of a historical manuscript
D. Ways in which architecture changed in ancient Egypt
2. What does the professor imply about pyramid construction during the Old Kingdom?
A. It is evidence of Egypt’s prosperity at the time.
B. It affected the flow of floodwaters from the Nile River.
C. It eventually replaced the construction of temples.
D. It continued into the early years of the First Intermediate Period,
3. What does the professor say about the claim that unusually heavy rainfalls occurred at the end of the Old Kingdom?
A. The claim can be neither proven nor disproven.
B. The Admonitions of /puwer exaggerates the claim.
C. Archaeological evidence from the period supports the claim.
D. The claim is contradicted by an analysis of sediments under the Nile River.
4. What view does the professor express about the decentralization of authority during the First Intermediate Period?
A, It was an înevitable reaction to earlier abuses of power by Egypt’s rulers.
B. It was a logical response to new climatic conditions.
C. It most likely caused the food shortages described in the Admonitions of lpuwer.
D. It most likely started long before the First Intermediate Period began.
5. According to the professor, what does evidence from burial sites suggest about Egypt during the First Intermediate Period?
A. Most people still lived in cities.
B. Traditional burial practices were changing. C. Civil unrest was widespread.
D. People had enough food to eat.
6. Why does the professor emphasize that the Admonitions of lpuwer was written after the First Intermediate Period had ended?
A. To suggest that it might not have been written by lpuwer
B. To point out the difficulty of dating historical manuscripts
C. To help explain the possible motivations of its author
D. To suggest that it is based on an earlier manuscript that is now lost
