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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 351-404.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a large part of a physician's training?
(a) Learning the appropriate healing chants.
(b) Learning how to deal with battle wounds.
(c) Learning how to be gentle with wounded patients.
(d) Learning how to save a warrior at all cost.

2. What is the symbol of Pharaoh's power?
(a) A red falcon seal.
(b) A blue hawk seal.
(c) The Gold of Praise.
(d) An enormous golden ring.

3. Why is Taita able to build an experimental squadron of chariots?
(a) Tanus believes strongly in the military potential of the chariots.
(b) Tanus thinks the chariots are the only way to vanquish the Hyksos.
(c) Lostris is too proud to back down after she gave him the order.
(d) Taita is too stubborn to stop experimenting.

4. Why does the queen not want her people to build a temple to Ammon-Ra?
(a) She wants them to remain travelers.
(b) There are not enough raw materials in the area.
(c) She already built a temple to Hapi.
(d) She does not worship Ammon-Ra.

5. How does Lord Intef escape his execution with the Shrike barons?
(a) He buys his own life with half of his treasure.
(b) He poisons the guards and slips out a secret passageway.
(c) He pleads with Pharaoh for mercy.
(d) He argues that his execution will tarnish his daughter's reputation forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What deity is both Lostris's patron and symbolized by the hippopotamus?

2. When Tanus enters the temple of Osiris, what is the crowd's reaction?

3. What would happen if Lostris bore the illegitimate child of another man?

4. What does Taita conspicuously display over the harem wall the morning after Lostris's wedding?

5. How does Lostris treat the common people in the city?

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