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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Taita works the Mazes of Ammon-Ra to receive guidance about the Hyksos problem, how does his vision begin?
(a) With a long green snake.
(b) With a forest of crowned trees.
(c) With the goddess Hapi.
(d) With the sound of thunder.

2. In the festival pageant, who plays the role of Seth, an evil god?
(a) Rasfer.
(b) Lord Intef.
(c) Taita.
(d) Tanus.

3. Why do the Hyksos pass by their victims rather than running straight into them?
(a) They do not want to sacrifice their horses.
(b) They can lean over the chariot edge and engage in swordplay.
(c) The knives on their chariot wheels cut apart the men.
(d) They prefer to intimidate the troops first.

4. How does the goddess Hapi answer the travelers' prayers at the beginning of their voyage?
(a) The Nile floods several weeks early.
(b) The Hyksos do not attack them again.
(c) They do not lose any ships in the first cataract.
(d) The Nile floods several weeks late.

5. How far south had civilized man progressed, prior to this Egyptian journey?
(a) To the source of the Nile.
(b) To the second cataract.
(c) To the first cataract.
(d) To the southern border of Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Hyksos a backward people, according to Taita?

2. How does the cobra get into Taita's room to attack him?

3. Why does the queen not want her people to build a temple to Ammon-Ra?

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

5. Where do Taita and Lostris go when they want to talk privately?

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