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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 146-190.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Taita's animals killed?
(a) By starvation.
(b) With a jar of poisoned goat's milk.
(c) With arrows.
(d) With a jar of poisoned honey.

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

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

4. How does the cobra get into Taita's room to attack him?
(a) Through a crack in the east wall.
(b) One of the slave boys brought it in.
(c) In a basket of pomegranates and mangoes.
(d) Rasfer brought it in secretly.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?

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