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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 445-494.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Taita explain his absence to Pharaoh?
(a) He says these things are too holy to be spoken of.
(b) He secretly tells Pharaoh everything that happened.
(c) He says that he was on secret business for the goddess Hapi.
(d) He does not have a convincing reason.

3. What is Pharaoh's primary concern for the future of his kingdom?
(a) That the kingdom is attacked by foreign armies.
(b) That the kingdom is disintegrating from within.
(c) That he has no worthy male heir.
(d) That he has no male heir.

4. How does Taita escape from Arkoun?
(a) He bribes four guards to smuggle him out of the castle.
(b) He sneaks through the sewer passages of the castle.
(c) He is swept away in the river when they are returning to the castle.
(d) He pretends to be the king's ambassador but does not return.

5. What is the name of the band of men who terrorize the Upper Kingdom?
(a) Kratas
(b) Shrikes.
(c) Akh-Seth.
(d) Men of Salitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Taita wait with Tanus's body the full forty days of embalming?

2. In the pageant duel with Rasfer, why does Tanus not kill Rasfer?

3. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?

4. What happens to the reward that Pharaoh gives to Taita?

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

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