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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 296-350.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the constant problem with the first chariots?
(a) The horses are scared of them.
(b) The wheels fall off.
(c) The men cannot drive the horses.
(d) The chariots are very heavy.

2. What is a large part of a physician's training?
(a) Learning how to deal with battle wounds.
(b) Learning how to save a warrior at all cost.
(c) Learning the appropriate healing chants.
(d) Learning how to be gentle with wounded patients.

3. How are the Hyksos a backward people, according to Taita?
(a) They serve savage gods.
(b) They cannot read or write.
(c) Their means of warfare are primitive.
(d) Their women are treated like slaves.

4. What is ironic about the double crown of Egypt that Pharaoh wears?
(a) The Lower Kingdom does not acknowledge his rule.
(b) The crown is merely a symbol of history, not of power.
(c) Lord Intef wears an identical crown.
(d) He does not deserve to wear the crown.

5. Following the battle with the Hyksos, what did Tanus do that caused him great grief?
(a) Burned half his ships because he no longer had men to pilot them.
(b) Said goodbye to Lostris for the next three months.
(c) Burned the bodies of five thousand faithful soldiers who were killed.
(d) Said goodbye to the dying Pharaoh for the last time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What body parts are left inside a man when he is embalmed?

2. In the festival pageant, who plays the role of Seth, an evil god?

3. Of what crime does Pharaoh find Tanus guilty?

4. Though Taita is an accomplished physician, what part of the human anatomy still confuses him (pg 88)?

5. In order to thwart Pharaoh, what is Tanus's plan?

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