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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early-morning sunlight, how does Pharaoh appear?
(a) Insignificant and slightly overweight.
(b) Unimportant and confused.
(c) Majestic and composed.
(d) Grand and imposing.

2. What does Taita name the gnu illness?
(a) The Black Death.
(b) The Black Strangler.
(c) The Red Death.
(d) The Yellow Strangler.

3. What does Lostris ask from her father for a wedding gift?
(a) Taita.
(b) Five thousand gold rings.
(c) One hundred feddan of prime land.
(d) Tanus.

4. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?
(a) He must direct the play.
(b) He is playing the main role of Horus.
(c) Lostris has not learned her lines properly.
(d) He wrote a new script to replace the thousand-year-old version.

5. Why does Taita implicitly trust Aton, the royal chamberlain?
(a) Aton has a good reputation in the palace.
(b) Pharaoh has spoken well of him.
(c) Aton also mourns at Lostris's marriage to Pharaoh.
(d) Aton is also a eunuch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lostris disapprove of Memnon's marriage to Masara?

2. As he lies dying, what are the last words that Pharaoh speaks?

3. After Lostris disappears from the festivities on the shore, where does Taita find her?

4. According to ancient Egyptian belief, what causes the Nile to flood?

5. When Taita explains Pharaoh's horoscope to Lostris, why does it give her hope?

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