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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gebu hide the golden goblet?

2. Why doesn't Ranofer follow Gebu the first night after he decides to do it?

3. What do Ranofer and his friends decide to do about Gebu?

4. What does Ranofer do as he watches Gebu and Wenamon meet on the morning of the Festival?

5. What do the friends find out when they share notes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Ancient tell Ranofer he overheard with Gebu and Setma?

2. What are Heqet and the Ancient doing while Ranofer is trying to catch Gebu?

3. What has Ranofer become interested in the shop, what does he ask Gebu and what is Gebu's response?

4. What does Ranofer see Gebu bring into the scroll room and what is the result of that?

5. What does Ranofer see when he follows Gebu into the valley and what might that tell the reader?

6. What do you think of the ending and what moral might be inferred from it?

7. What holiday is approaching and what do the three friends decide to do about it?

8. What does Ranofer realize about Gebu's possessions and what do the three friends decide to do?

9. What did Heqet hear Gebu and Wenamon discussing and what does Ranofer think it means?

10. How much information are the friends gathering and why didn't Ranofer follow Gebu one night in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ranofer is stuck in a situation where he is constantly afraid for his own well being and doing a job he finds desperately boring and exhausting. Heqet and the Ancient have become the only people that Ranofer can trust and rely on. It is a friendship that will hopefully help Ranofer survive Gebu's cruelty.

1. Discuss the emotional impact Gebu's abuse might have on Ranofer. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. What do you think Ranofer's friendship with Heqet and the Ancient might do to mitigate some of the emotional trauma Ranofer might be suffering from Gebu's abuse? Discuss the ways in which Heqet and the Ancient could help Ranofer.

3. Most children who are abused suffer many emotional, personality and physical symptoms. Citing examples from the book discuss these symptoms that are seen in Ranofer.

Essay Topic 2

Ranofer knows that Gebu is stealing again because he can see the evidence in the new things Gebu has bought and the money he often gives to Ranofer. Ranofer talks about this with his friends and they decide to begin spying on Gebu and his friends.

1. What might be inferred from Ranofer's society from the fact that Ranofer thinks Gebu is stealing because he has new items and gives Ranofer money even though Gebu is a self employed stone cutter? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. How likely do you think it is that Ranofer as a young boy would notice and infer so much from so little? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Ranofer's friends would decide to spy on his brother and his brother's friends? What would they gain by doing this?

Essay Topic 3

Ranofer begins avoiding his friends because he feels he cannot tell them about the goblet. However, Heqet finds him and convinces him to return.

1. Discuss why do you think Ranofer avoids his friends just because he thinks he cannot tell them about the goblet?

2. Discuss why you think Ranofer feels he cannot tell his friends about the goblet.

3. Explain in detail what you could infer about Heqet's character that he would find Ranofer and pull him back into friendship.

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