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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is bitterly saddened by what Taita displays over the harem wall?
(a) Tanus.
(b) Lostris.
(c) Lord Intef.
(d) Taita himself.

3. Why does Queen Lostris establish a stone monument just past the first cataract?
(a) To honor her dead husband.
(b) To commemorate the work of the five men who brought the ships through.
(c) To honor the army, particularly its leader Tanus.
(d) As a vow to her people that she would return.

4. Once Taita finds Tanus, how does he sober him up?
(a) Dragging him out of the shack and dumping him in the river.
(b) Telling him stories of Lostris's new life to rouse him to action.
(c) Giving him a special potion to aid sobriety.
(d) Forcing him to drink water until he threw up.

5. Why does Lostris wait in the palace as the Hyksos approach?
(a) She wants to test Tanus's love.
(b) She does not realize the Hyksos are so close.
(c) She will not board the ship until all her people are onboard.
(d) She would rather die in her palace than be a wanderer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After leaving Thebes, where do Pharaoh and his court go?

3. Of what crime does Pharaoh find Tanus guilty?

4. Why does Nembet, the Great Lion of Egypt, become angry with Tanus?

5. When a beggar boy asks for alms from Taita, what does Taita give him?

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