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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the city of Ephebe decide to retaliate against Tsort?
(a) Before Tsort has a chance to run away.
(b) They are afraid of Tsort.
(c) The gods tell them they should.
(d) Before Tsort has a chance to attack.

2. Why is Ptraci supposed to kill herself?
(a) She is an illegitimate child.
(b) So she can be the late king's servant in his afterlife.
(c) She has committed a sin.
(d) She is an orphan.

3. Why, when the king dies, is a pyramid built and his body mummified?
(a) Mummification prepares the king for his journey into the afterlife.
(b) Mummification preserves a king for many centuries.
(c) No one can survive the power of the pyramid without being mummified.
(d) The reason for the pyramid has been forgotten.

4. The priests in the palace begin to ______________.
(a) Talk.
(b) Bicker and fight.
(c) Pray.
(d) Run away.

5. The king tried many times to talk to them and knew that the two could feel his presence but that they are unable to hear him and put the strange feelings down to ______________.
(a) The gods.
(b) The drafts that sweep through the chambers of the embalming rooms.
(c) Lack of sleep.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Teppic able to get much help while with the philosophers?

2. Ptraci and Teppic decide that they will go where to talk to the men there that have very unsound ideas about geometry?

3. The camel does the calculations needed to know ______________.

4. Suddenly Ptaclus and Ilb start to do what over again?

5. When Dios looks into Ptraci's hiding place and she is not there, how does Teppic hide his surprise?

(see the answer key)

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