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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 405-444.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near the end of the wedding feast, what does Taita discover about Pharaoh's personality?
(a) He is incapable of loving anyone other than himself.
(b) He is a lewd man.
(c) He is a kind man.
(d) He is a heartless man.

2. Why does Pharaoh boast of Taita's abilities as a physician?
(a) Taita made Lostris more fertile to carry a male child.
(b) Taita cured Pharaoh's ringworm.
(c) Taita healed Pharaoh of pneumonia.
(d) Taita cured Pharaoh's impotence.

3. Why does Taita help a shrieking woman at the riverside?
(a) Her daughter was abducted by slave traders.
(b) She went into labor on the shore.
(c) Her daughter was eaten by a crocodile.
(d) Her son was killed in the hippopotamus hunt.

4. During her feast to celebrate Taita, what gift does Lostris try to give him?
(a) His own house apart from hers.
(b) Three new slave boys.
(c) His freedom.
(d) New physician's tools.

5. What is the name of the band of men who terrorize the Upper Kingdom?
(a) Men of Salitis.
(b) Kratas
(c) Shrikes.
(d) Akh-Seth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Egyptians treat their women in comparison to surrounding nations?

2. How does Taita conquer Shufti?

3. How is Lostris thrown from the Breath of Horus?

4. What does Pharaoh give Lostris after she gives birth to a male heir?

5. Why does Queen Lostris establish a stone monument just past the first cataract?

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