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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do crowds of people wait onshore for the boats to return?
(a) They want to welcome Lostris back home.
(b) They cannot begin the feast of Osiris until Lostris returns.
(c) They are allowed to eat hippopotamus only then, during the feast of Osiris.
(d) They are concerned for the safety of the sailors.

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

3. Why does Taita think he deserves to be called the best artist in all the land?
(a) Because of his writing prowess.
(b) Because of his medicinal skills.
(c) Because of his clay pots.
(d) Because of his painted murals.

4. How does Taita fake his own death in order to search for Tanus?
(a) He held an embalming ceremony for himself (the body was a stranger's).
(b) Lostris spread rumors that he was dead while he hid in her rooms for a month.
(c) Sprinkled a cat's blood over a boat and left the boat to drift.
(d) Took a large dose of the sleeping potion.

5. What happens to the reward that Pharaoh gives to Taita?
(a) Taita wastes it.
(b) Taita buys several pieces of land with it.
(c) Pharaoh takes it back within a week.
(d) It goes to Lostris instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Taita valuable to Lord Intef?

2. What is the name of Taita's friend who gives him information and supplies prior to the battle with the Shrikes?

3. What is the name of the warriors who are coming from the east?

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

5. What is the constant problem with the first chariots?

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