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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Egyptians treat their women in comparison to surrounding nations?
(a) They idolize their women.
(b) They largely ignore their women.
(c) They are the most merciful.
(d) They are the cruelest.

2. Why does Taita conduct Pharaoh's tours of his treasuries?
(a) The priests could not answer Pharaoh's questions.
(b) Pharaoh remembered him from the pageant and requested that he lead.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Lord Intef could not answer Pharaoh's questions.

3. What is the symbol of Pharaoh's power?
(a) A blue hawk seal.
(b) A red falcon seal.
(c) An enormous golden ring.
(d) The Gold of Praise.

4. When Tanus disappeared, to whom did he hand over his squadron and Pharaoh's seal?
(a) Taita.
(b) Safaga.
(c) Kratas.
(d) Lord Intef.

5. When Taita explains Pharaoh's horoscope to Lostris, why does it give her hope?
(a) Pharaoh will be dead within the year.
(b) Tanus will rescue her in five years.
(c) She and Tanus will die and go to paradise together.
(d) Pharaoh will be dead in five years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After leaving Thebes, where do Pharaoh and his court go?

3. Who is bitterly saddened by what Taita displays over the harem wall?

4. What deity is both Lostris's patron and symbolized by the hippopotamus?

5. Why is Taita valuable to Lord Intef?

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