#5036 Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading
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Warm-Up
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Check Your Understanding
1.
From the context of the passage, what is the meaning of
pharaoh?
a. a ruler
b. a person who rules a country in place of a child
c.
a farmer
d. a person from another country
2.
What can you infer about the feelings of Thutmose III from his actions?
a. He was in love with Hatshepsut.
b. He was angry at being denied his rightful place as pharaoh for so many years.
c. He wanted to destroy the people’s memory of Hatshepsut.
d. both b and c
3.
From the context of the passage, how can you tell that pharaohs were rarely women?
a. All of the pharaohs mentioned were men except one.
b. A beard was a sign of a pharaoh’s position.
c. Women didn’t know how to be pharaohs.
d. both a and b
4.
Why did Egyptian rulers sometimes marry one of their sisters?
a. There were very few girls to choose from.
b. They wanted to keep power and wealth in the family.
c. They wanted their sisters to rule.
d. They wanted to have someone to do the cooking.
Queen Hatshepsut ruled in Egypt from
1479 BCE until 1458 BCE. She was the
daughter of
Pharaoh Thutmose I. He soon
recognized her intelligence and curiosity.
She was taught to read and write. She was
trained to be the wife of a future pharaoh. In
her early teens, she was married to her half-
brother, Thutmose II.
Arranged marriages
between brothers and sisters were common for
Egyptian kings and queens. It kept power in
the family. Thutmose II was sickly. He died
a few years after becoming a pharaoh.
Hatshepsut became the person in charge of
Egypt while Thutmose III, her husband’s son
by another wife, was a child. Hatshepsut
assumed the powers of a pharaoh. She even
wore a false beard as a sign of her power.
She sent a trading expedition to the famous
kingdom of Punt.
This quest returned with
many riches. She waged one brief, successful
war. She built many monuments, temples,
and statues.
When Hatshepsut died, Thutmose III finally
became pharaoh.
He tried to remove every
sign of Hatshepsut’s existence. Her name was
cut away from stone monuments. Her features
were carved off statues.
She was unknown
until modern historians rediscovered the lost
queen of Egypt.
From the Past
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