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 sun-disk headdress of which other Egyptian goddess?

A) Nut

B) Neith

C) Hathor

D) Bastet

Answer · why

C) Hathor

Hathor may have been counted as Horus's mother before Isis took over that role along with her crown.

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

Geb and Nut were the earth god and the sky goddess, lovers held apart by the air god Shu, who is shown standing between them and lifting her arched bo...

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

Nephthys was the wife of Set, the brother who killed Osiris, yet she sided with Isis, and the sisters' work on the body became the mythic model for mu...

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 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

In a chest built to his exact measurements: at a feast Set offered it to whoever fitted inside, and once Osiris lay down the plotters nailed the lid s...