View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Taita conspicuously display over the harem wall the morning after Lostris's wedding?
(a) Lostris's blood-stained wedding skirt.
(b) The flowers that had been in Lostris's hair the day before.
(c) Pharaoh's seal symbolizing his approval of Lostris.
(d) A blood-stained sheet from Lostris's bed.

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

3. What happens when Taita approaches Lord Intef to explain Lostris's love for Tanus?
(a) He is whipped.
(b) He is imprisoned.
(c) Lord Intef threatens to kill Tanus.
(d) Lord Intef listens and approves.

4. In the pageant duel with Rasfer, why does Tanus not kill Rasfer?
(a) He thinks Rasfer is wounded to the point of death.
(b) He is afraid of shocking Pharaoh.
(c) He is afraid of Lord Intef's subsequent anger.
(d) Rasfer has already surrendered.

5. What deity is both Lostris's patron and symbolized by the hippopotamus?
(a) Hapi goddess of the Nile.
(b) Horus god of the Nile.
(c) Horus god the wind.
(d) Seth god of the underworld.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tanus wait while Taita gathers supplies for their upcoming battle against the Shrikes?

2. What invention of Taita's is Lostris thrilled with at her new home?

3. When will Pharaoh marry Lostris?

4. How does the audience accept the bloody, gaudy pageant?

5. What is ironic about the double crown of Egypt that Pharaoh wears?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 351 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample