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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. What do April and Melanie decide to make to accompany the bust of Nefertiti?
2. What is the Professor's response to what April tells him on her first visit to his shop?
3. What does April do while the others are waiting outside of Egypt on their night-time visit?
4. Why are the children afraid of the Professor?
5. What are April and Melanie's roles in the first Egypt Game?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Melanie find that begins the Egypt Game?
2. What is Melanie's concern about April before school begins?
3. How does April dress for her first meeting with Melanie?
4. What do April, Melanie and Marshall find inside the lean-to at the outset of the Egypt game?
5. How did the crocodile stone come to be?
6. What saves Halloween from being canceled?
7. What do the Egyptians do while they are on a hiatus from the Egypt Game as a result of a neighborhood event?
8. What do the Egyptians decide they should do in order to appease the gods after their long absence?
9. What were April's living arrangements before she moved to town?
10. What happens when April first meets the Professor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the tension between the innocence of the children playing their game and the real-world events that occur in the story. Use specific examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
How can children from such different backgrounds become such good friends? What do the Egyptians learn from each other? How do their relationships change the way they see themselves? Use examples from the book in your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the ways innocence is defined, discussed, and violated in The Egypt Game. How does each character's development relate to whether, and how, they might be innocent or have lost innocence? Use specific examples from the book to support your answer.
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