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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What change to the festival pageant does Taita protest?
(a) Pharaoh's place in the audience.
(b) The fact that Lord Intef now gets credit for the pageant.
(c) The removal of his main speech.
(d) The live execution of a thief.

2. After Lostris disappears from the festivities on the shore, where does Taita find her?
(a) In Tanus's tent with him.
(b) In the ship's stronghold.
(c) In Hapi's temple with Tanus.
(d) In her own tent with Tanus.

3. Who is Kratas?
(a) The leader of the band of slave traders.
(b) The high priest of the goddess Hapi.
(c) A common soldier and Taita's close friend.
(d) Tanus's chief lieutenant and Taita's close friend.

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

5. How does the audience accept the bloody, gaudy pageant?
(a) With holy terror.
(b) With wild enthusiasm.
(c) With horror.
(d) With stunned silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ushabti that would be buried with Pharaoh when he died?

2. Why does Taita help a shrieking woman at the riverside?

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

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

5. What gives Taita the right to speak sharply to Tanus when he and Lostris board the Breath of Horus?

(see the answer key)

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