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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do April and Melanie think will happen with the boys' involvement in the Egypt Game?
(a) That the boys will try to take over the game.
(b) That they will become active participants in the game.
(c) That other kids will become interested in playing the game with them.
(d) That they will grow tired of the game and stop playing.

2. What do Ken and Toby ask April and Melanie after they learn about the Egypt Game?
(a) They ask if they can make objects for the temple.
(b) They ask if they can create a new game together.
(c) They ask if they can invite other kids to play.
(d) They ask when the game will begin again.

3. What do the intruders think about their intrusion?
(a) They think it is insensitive.
(b) They think it is enjoyable for everyone.
(c) They think it is funny.
(d) They think it is too scary.

4. What do Ken and Toby tell their basketball friends about why they have been absent from the game?
(a) They have an after-school job.
(b) They have been grounded since Halloween.
(c) They have to help a neighbor after school.
(d) They are working on an extra credit project for school.

5. What does Toby confide to April and Melanie?
(a) He goes to Egypt to perform ceremonies alone.
(b) He does not want to stop playing the Egypt Game because it is a refuge from his homelife.
(c) He has been writing in the scrolls.
(d) He has been writing the answers to the questions posed to the Oracle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Oracle of Thoth work?

2. What do Ken and Toby bring to Egypt after the children are permitted outside again?

3. What do the Egyptians do after the first intruder lands in the storage yard?

4. Who performs the Ceremony of Returning to the Oracle for the Answer?

5. What is Toby's reaction to the Egypt Game?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does April learn about the Professor from Marshall?

2. What are April and Melanie's thoughts about Ken and Toby's interest in the Egypt Game?

3. How did Security become lost?

4. What happens to Elizabeth's parakeet, Petey?

5. What do the Egyptians find when they return to Egypt to learn whether the Oracle has spoken?

6. What news does April receive in a letter from her mother after Halloween?

7. Describe the Ceremony of the Dead.

8. What is the inspiration for the Oracle ceremony?

9. Why do April and Marshall go to Egypt at night?

10. Why are the Egyptians unable to return to their game during Christmas break?

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