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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 is Tanus's cousin.
(c) Tanus is a lowly soldier.
(d) He was once Tanus's tutor.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the festival pageant, who plays the role of Seth, an evil god?

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

3. Why do crowds of people wait onshore for the boats to return?

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

5. Once he is seated on the ark carrying his coffin, what unprecedented thing does Pharaoh do?

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