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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Khuft run into the desert?
(a) He is running away from the villagers.
(b) He was trying to find the city.
(c) He is looking for food.
(d) He had been cheating people with his used camel business.

2. The next day Dios comes in to talk to Teppic while Teppic is ______________.
(a) Getting a haircut from the royal barber.
(b) Getting a massage from the royal masseuse.
(c) Getting his teeth cleaned by theroyal dentist.
(d) Getting a shave from the royal barber.

3. Why is Ptraci reluctant to go with Teppic?
(a) She does not trust him.
(b) She does not like him.
(c) She does not want to anger the gods.
(d) She is tired.

4. Why is the king a little surprised to see Gern and Dil there?
(a) He thought they were done embalming him.
(b) The king is supposed to live forever.
(c) He thought he would see his wife.
(d) The king is supposed to be in his own afterlife different from commoners.

5. The following day Teppic resides over ______________.
(a) A funeral.
(b) A meeting.
(c) The supreme court.
(d) A party.

6. Belief is not as strong as gravity, but has done what?
(a) Grown in strength.
(b) Lost strength.
(c) Hurt the people.
(d) Grown heavier.

7. What does Teppic discover when he is looking for the city?
(a) Ephebe.
(b) Another city.
(c) The lost city of Atlantis.
(d) If he holds his head at the correct angle and squints, he can see the city throught a crack in a stone.

8. 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.

9. Who is Khuft?
(a) The name of the pyramid.
(b) The founder of the city.
(c) A giant.
(d) The Sphinx.

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

11. What does Teppic think of the man who does not want to be saved?
(a) He is worried about him.
(b) He is angry with him.
(c) He feels sorry for him.
(d) He thinks he is mad.

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

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

14. Dios is there waiting on Teppic and Ptraci with several guards and orders that they will be killed for what reason?
(a) Dishonoring the king.
(b) Running away.
(c) Disobeying Dios' orders.
(d) The murder of the king.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What had some of the gods begun to do?

3. Why is there no one to recognize Teppic except Dio?

4. What is wrong with Ila?

5. The great pyramid has become so _____________ that touching it burns the skin.

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