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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 does not like Lostris any more than she likes him.
(c) Taita's reputation as a physician reinforces any story he gives of sickness.
(d) Pharaoh is older and has had many wives already.

2. How is Lostris thrown from the Breath of Horus?
(a) She tries to duck Tanus's arrow and falls.
(b) She is startled by Taita's shout and falls.
(c) The ship runs into the bull hippopotamus.
(d) The rowers take a curve too sharply.

3. What does Taita see at the end of Pharaoh's horoscope?
(a) Battles and bloodshed for one hundred years.
(b) A girl baby followed by a boy.
(c) A forest of trees, all bearing the double crown.
(d) A tree eaten by locusts and fallen to earth.

4. What does Tanus name as one of the single worst afflictions to settle on Egypt?
(a) The black plague.
(b) The lack of a male heir to the throne.
(c) Pharaoh's tax collectors.
(d) The bands of slave traders.

5. Though Taita is an accomplished physician, what part of the human anatomy still confuses him (pg 88)?
(a) The heart.
(b) The veins.
(c) The lungs.
(d) The brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ushabti that would be buried with Pharaoh when he died?

2. Contrary to Pharaoh's plans, why does Lostris set out to charm him?

3. Why is Tanus's speech a surprise to his whole audience, especially Taita?

4. What does "Lostris" mean?

5. When a beggar boy asks for alms from Taita, what does Taita give him?

(see the answer key)

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