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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the Egyptians easily able to capture the Shilluk village in Cush?
(a) The people had been betrayed by their chief.
(b) The men are out on the plain hunting oryx.
(c) The village is small and insignificant.
(d) The people are not hunters and thus not prepared to defend themselves.

2. What task does Queen Lostris give to Lord Aqer?
(a) To guide the ships through the fourth cataract.
(b) To open the road north to Thebes.
(c) To infiltrate King Salitis' inner circle of advisors and send back information.
(d) To hunt enough meat for the next six months.

3. What does Taita do before he tells Pharaoh that Lostris is pregnant again?
(a) He casts the horoscope to see if the child will be born under good stars.
(b) He offers sacrifices of thanks at the temple of Hapi.
(c) He consults the oracles to see if the child will be a boy.
(d) He tells Tanus that the child is really his.

4. What would happen if Lostris bore the illegitimate child of another man?
(a) She would be ostracized from society.
(b) She would lose the crown.
(c) She would not be allowed to keep the child.
(d) She would be beheaded.

5. How are the Hyksos a backward people, according to Taita?
(a) Their women are treated like slaves.
(b) They serve savage gods.
(c) Their means of warfare are primitive.
(d) They cannot read or write.

6. What is Memnon's reaction to the hunt?
(a) He becomes bloodthirsty.
(b) He is stone-faced and silent.
(c) He kneels in the plain and cries.
(d) He has tears in his eyes.

7. What is the constant problem with the first chariots?
(a) The men cannot drive the horses.
(b) The horses are scared of them.
(c) The chariots are very heavy.
(d) The wheels fall off.

8. What proves that Lord Intef owned the chests of treasure hidden in his palace?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) The hidden passageway to his rooms.
(c) The fact that they were hidden in his palace.
(d) His ring seal on the locks.

9. How far south had civilized man progressed, prior to this Egyptian journey?
(a) To the southern border of Egypt.
(b) To the first cataract.
(c) To the source of the Nile.
(d) To the second cataract.

10. How old is Prince Memnon when a messenger brings news of the fall of the Lower Kingdom?
(a) Twenty-one years old.
(b) Five months old.
(c) Five years old.
(d) One month old.

11. What does Pharaoh give Lostris after she gives birth to a male heir?
(a) A new palace along the edge of the Nile.
(b) Precedence among all his wives and the title of Queen.
(c) A place for her coffin next to his in the tomb.
(d) Half of the treasure he had planned for his tomb.

12. Why does Taita think he deserves to be called the best artist in all the land?
(a) Because of his painted murals.
(b) Because of his medicinal skills.
(c) Because of his writing prowess.
(d) Because of his clay pots.

13. When do the Egyptians begin to flee toward their ships away from the Hyksos?
(a) When Tanus calls them to retreat.
(b) When Pharaoh is hit with an arrow.
(c) When the battle changes to a massacre.
(d) When the men in front begin stampeding toward the back.

14. Why are Lord Nembet and most of his men killed by the Hyksos?
(a) Lord Nembet had not trained them well.
(b) The men were sailors not warriors.
(c) Lord Nembet laughed at Tanus's warning letter.
(d) The men were poor archers.

15. What is Pharaoh's last wish to Lostris?
(a) That she hand over power to Memnon immediately.
(b) That she find Lord Intef and bring him to justice.
(c) That she finish his tomb and bury him according to The Book of the Dead.
(d) That she rally the nation and defeat the Hyksos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Hyksos pass by their victims rather than running straight into them?

2. Why does Lostris disapprove of Memnon's marriage to Masara?

3. When Tanus enters the temple of Osiris, what is the crowd's reaction?

4. Where does the Shepherd King shoot his first arrow as the battle begins?

5. When does Memnon first see Masara, prisoner of the Ethiopian king Arkoun?

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