Characters
A New York schoolgirl who narrates the final, chaotic, and challenging move from the Hudson River to Central Park.
Who was --?
The first era, or part, of the book
What is Creation (1461 BCE)?
Name of Ship that brings obelisk across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Dessoug?
The original location of the obelisk.
Where is Heliopolis?
The obelisk was commissioned by tis person approximately 3,500 years ago (c. 1450 BCE) to commemorate his 30th year of reign.
Who was Pharaoh Thothmes III?
A runaway English boy, stows away on a ship, which brings the obelisk across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who was Thomas Brighton?
The second era, or part, of the book.
What is the The Inscriptions (1459 BCE)?
Person who gifted the obelisk to the US in the 1870s.
Who was the Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt
What covers the obelisk.
What are Egyptian hieroglyphics?
Year the obelisk journeyed across the Atlantic.
What/when was 1879?
This character an artist who draws the hieroglyphs, which are then carved into the granite
Who was Lateef Jabari?
The fourth era.
What is The Voyage (1880)?
US location of obelisk.
Where is Central Park, New York.
Cleopatra's needle was owned by Cleopatra.
What is false
Location where material for carving the monolith was obtained.
What are the Aswan quarries?
This character is an enslaved boy in Aswan, Egypt, who works on carving the 7-story monument.
Who was Zosar Zuberi?
The third era.
What is The Journey (1879-1880)?
Height and weight of obelisk.
What is approximately 69 feet tall and weighs roughly 200–220 tons?
How was the obelisk moved without heavy lifting machinery?
What are levers and inclined planes?
From what monolith carved from.
What is red granite?
A 14-year-old girl in Alexandria, Egypt, who witnesses the tension of moving the, then Egyptian, monument.
Who is Panya Hassan?
The fifth era.
What is NYC Arrival (1881)?
Character in the book that is a slave.
Who is Zosar?
What is a diary?
He was in charge of moving the monument.
Who was Henry Honychurch Gorringe?