View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 48-107.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early-morning sunlight, how does Pharaoh appear?
(a) Unimportant and confused.
(b) Insignificant and slightly overweight.
(c) Majestic and composed.
(d) Grand and imposing.

2. How does the audience accept the bloody, gaudy pageant?
(a) With holy terror.
(b) With stunned silence.
(c) With horror.
(d) With wild enthusiasm.

3. Why did Taita help Tanus enter the army?
(a) Tanus did not want to continue his schooling.
(b) Taita could not afford to pay for his education.
(c) Tanus had only wanted to join the army.
(d) No rich man would sponsor his education.

4. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?
(a) Lostris has not learned her lines properly.
(b) He must direct the play.
(c) He wrote a new script to replace the thousand-year-old version.
(d) He is playing the main role of Horus.

5. In the pageant duel with Rasfer, why does Tanus not kill Rasfer?
(a) He is afraid of Lord Intef's subsequent anger.
(b) Rasfer has already surrendered.
(c) He is afraid of shocking Pharaoh.
(d) He thinks Rasfer is wounded to the point of death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tanus name as one of the single worst afflictions to settle on Egypt?

2. What is ironic about the double crown of Egypt that Pharaoh wears?

3. Why is Taita called the Elder Brother in the slave quarters?

4. Why does Taita help a shrieking woman at the riverside?

5. What gives Taita the right to speak sharply to Tanus when he and Lostris board the Breath of Horus?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 380 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample