Q 01/05

In the judgement before Osiris, the heart of a dead person was weighed against what?

A) A scarab

B) A grain of wheat

C) A feather

D) A lotus flower

Answer · why

C) A feather

A feather. The ostrich plume stood for truth and right order, so a heart heavy with wrongdoing tipped the scales and its owner lost the afterlife.

Q 02/05

How was Set, the god who murdered Osiris, related to his victim?

A) His son

B) His brother

C) His father

D) His uncle

Answer · why

B) His brother

His brother. Set coveted the throne of Egypt and seized it, and the feud passed down a generation when the dead king's son grew up to fight him for it...

Q 03/05

Isis, who searched Egypt for the body of Osiris, was his wife and also his what?

A) His mother

B) His daughter

C) His cousin

D) His sister

Answer · why

D) His sister

His sister. She gathered the scattered pieces of his body, and her magic revived him just long enough to conceive the son who would avenge him.

Q 04/05

In the Greek version of the myth, which part of Osiris's body did Isis fail to recover?

A) His genitalia

B) His head

C) His left hand

D) His heart

Answer · why

A) His genitalia

His genitalia. Fish in the Nile had eaten them, the Greek telling says, so Isis made a replica; Egyptian accounts have the body recovered whole.

Q 05/05

Who was Osiris's posthumously conceived son?

A) Khonsu

B) Sobek

C) Horus

D) Min

Answer · why

C) Horus

Horus. Isis hid with him in the marshes of the Nile delta until he was grown, and he then fought Set for his father's throne and won it.