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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 146-190.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Taita able to persuade Pharaoh of Lostris's illness on their wedding night?
(a) Pharaoh is weary and does not want to see anyone.
(b) Pharaoh is older and has had many wives already.
(c) Pharaoh does not like Lostris any more than she likes him.
(d) Taita's reputation as a physician reinforces any story he gives of sickness.

2. Why is Taita called the Elder Brother in the slave quarters?
(a) He cares for young slave girls after Lord Intef sleeps with them.
(b) He looks out for all new slaves who are brought to the palace.
(c) He cares for young slave boys after Lord Intef sleeps with them.
(d) He cares for Lord Intef's wives during their many pregnancies.

3. How does the cobra get into Taita's room to attack him?
(a) One of the slave boys brought it in.
(b) Through a crack in the east wall.
(c) In a basket of pomegranates and mangoes.
(d) Rasfer brought it in secretly.

4. How did Lostris first gain her knowledge of the outdoors?
(a) By asking Tanus many questions after he went hunting.
(b) By studying long hours with Taita.
(c) By hunting with her father.
(d) By tagging along with Tanus and Taita on their hunts.

5. Why does Pharaoh boast of Taita's abilities as a physician?
(a) Taita cured Pharaoh's impotence.
(b) Taita cured Pharaoh's ringworm.
(c) Taita made Lostris more fertile to carry a male child.
(d) Taita healed Pharaoh of pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Tanus's father die an unhappy death?

2. What color does Lostris wear to prove she is a virgin bride?

3. Once he is seated on the ark carrying his coffin, what unprecedented thing does Pharaoh do?

4. To what army regiment does Tanus belong?

5. What surgery must Taita perform on Rasfer after the pageant?

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