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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 48-107.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Tanus's father die an unhappy death?
(a) His wife had died several years earlier.
(b) He had only one son and eight daughters.
(c) He was destitute and out of favor with Pharaoh.
(d) He was assassinated.

2. What gives Taita the right to speak sharply to Tanus when he and Lostris board the Breath of Horus?
(a) Tanus was rude to him first.
(b) He was once Tanus's tutor.
(c) He is Tanus's cousin.
(d) Tanus is a lowly soldier.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Taita called the Elder Brother in the slave quarters?

2. Why does Taita keep separate from the crowds?

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

4. Who is Kratas?

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

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