Q 01/05

What hieroglyph did Isis originally wear on her head as a sign of her identity?

A) A throne

B) A sun disk

C) A scorpion

D) A papyrus stalk

Answer · why

A) A throne

The sign spelled the sounds of her name, and some scholars think she was originally a personification of the royal throne itself.

Q 02/05

During the New Kingdom Isis took on the headdress of which goddess, a sun disk between cow horns?

A) Nut

B) Neith

C) Hathor

D) Bastet

Answer · why

C) Hathor

She also absorbed Hathor's sistrum rattle; sometimes the throne glyph was stacked on top of the sun disk.

Q 03/05

Isis and her three siblings were the children of which two deities?

A) Ra and Hathor

B) Shu and Tefnut

C) Geb and Nut

D) Atum and Ptah

Answer · why

C) Geb and Nut

They form the last generation of the Ennead of Heliopolis, the family of nine gods descended from the creator.

Q 04/05

Which sister helped Isis search for and reassemble the pieces of Osiris's body?

A) Nephthys

B) Hathor

C) Sekhmet

D) Maat

Answer · why

A) Nephthys

Their work was the mythic prototype for mummification, and the two goddesses often appear together protecting sarcophagi.

Q 05/05

In Plutarch's version, how does Set trap Osiris?

A) In a chest built to his exact measurements

B) In a weighted net cast across the Nile

C) In a burning temple sealed from outside

D) In a labyrinth dug beneath Memphis

Answer · why

A) In a chest built to his exact measurements

At a banquet Set promises the chest to whoever fits inside; only Osiris does, and the sealed box floats to Byblos.