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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When they are getting ready to leave, Teppic decides that they will do what with the others in the prison?
(a) Free them.
(b) Kill them.
(c) Torture them.
(d) Feed them.

3. What is wrong with Ila?
(a) He cannot speak.
(b) He cannot see.
(c) Time has flattened him.
(d) He is invisible.

4. Teppic is able to slip past the guards and finds Ptraci hiding ______________.
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the embalming room where he left her.
(c) In the pyramid.
(d) In his bed chamber.

5. Dios comes to his senses. What does he tell the others?
(a) To stop fighting.
(b) To help the king.
(c) To pray.
(d) The king is dead with no successor.

6. In the city of Djelibeybi, the rules of the land had begun to ______________.
(a) Disappear and weaken.
(b) Grow stronger.
(c) Multiply.
(d) Change for the better.

7. Why is every person stuck within Djelibeybi?
(a) The roads are blocked.
(b) The fog is too thick to find a way out.
(c) They are all locked in the buildings.
(d) The roads out of the city lead back in again.

8. Where does the dead king say that the girl went?
(a) To the courtroom.
(b) To the prison.
(c) Home.
(d) Out.

9. Describe these gods.
(a) Very scary.
(b) Very powerful.
(c) Very intelligent.
(d) Very dim-witted.

10. Why does no one listen to the dead king's response regarding the girl?
(a) They cannot hear him.
(b) They are ignoring him.
(c) They do not like him.
(d) They do not trust him.

11. What happens to everything that a person believes?
(a) It is now being brought into life.
(b) It is now dying.
(c) It is now being proved wrong.
(d) It is now disappearing.

12. Ptraci, Teppic, and You Bastard reach Ephebe and meet two philosophers who are ______________.
(a) Talking.
(b) Hunting deer.
(c) Singing.
(d) Shooting at turtles on sticks.

13. While Teppic is at the tea social with the philosophers, he talks to _______________, who is the expert on geometry.
(a) Pthagonal.
(b) Pthagoras.
(c) Pthergen.
(d) Python.

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

15. The great pyramid has become so _____________ that touching it burns the skin.
(a) Diseased.
(b) Hot.
(c) Acidic.
(d) Cold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Ptraci reluctant to go with Teppic?

3. How does Teppic act when Dios tells him that the girl from court has been freed from the prison?

4. To what do the philosophers offer to Teppic?

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

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