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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 108-145.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Lord Intef engineer the downfall of Lord Harrab, Tanus's father?
(a) Lord Intef was jealous of Lord Harrab's virtue, popularity, and wealth.
(b) Lord Harrab was corrupt in his land dealings with Lord Intef.
(c) Lord Harrab had cheated Lord Intef out of several thousand gold rings.
(d) Pharaoh had promised great riches to Lord Harrab.

5. What surgery must Taita perform on Rasfer after the pageant?
(a) Draining the brain of blood.
(b) Sewing up several sword wounds.
(c) Setting a broken arm.
(d) Removing splinters of an arrow.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "Lostris" mean?

3. Why is Tanus's speech a surprise to his whole audience, especially Taita?

4. Who is bitterly saddened by what Taita displays over the harem wall?

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

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