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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what army regiment does Tanus belong?
(a) The Golden Sun.
(b) The Blue Crocodiles.
(c) The Black Hippo.
(d) The Scarlet Sign.

2. What does Shufti the baron offer Tanus in return for twenty of his "slave girls"?
(a) His protection.
(b) A shrike bird feather.
(c) A letter of safe passage.
(d) A thousand gold rings.

3. Where do Taita and Lostris go when they want to talk privately?
(a) Along the outer walls of the harem.
(b) In a skiff on the river.
(c) Into her water garden.
(d) In her inner chamber bedroom.

4. Though Taita is an accomplished physician, what part of the human anatomy still confuses him (pg 88)?
(a) The brain.
(b) The heart.
(c) The lungs.
(d) The veins.

5. Why do the Shrikes lose the battle?
(a) They come over the mountain pass too quickly.
(b) The leaders are quickly killed and the men cannot fight without leadership.
(c) They are outnumbered.
(d) They have Tanus at their faces and the "slave girls" at their backs.

6. Why did Tanus's father die an unhappy death?
(a) His wife had died several years earlier.
(b) He was destitute and out of favor with Pharaoh.
(c) He was assassinated.
(d) He had only one son and eight daughters.

7. In order to thwart Pharaoh, what is Tanus's plan?
(a) To overthrow Pharaoh and become Pharaoh in his place.
(b) To overthrow Lord Intef and raise a powerful army.
(c) To elope with Lostris south to the land of Cush.
(d) To wean power gradually away from Pharaoh, who is weak.

8. When Taita returns to Lostris, why is she sick?
(a) She has barely eaten anything.
(b) She has contracted malaria.
(c) The miscarriage of Pharaoh's child made her ill.
(d) She is sick with worry for Tanus.

9. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?
(a) He is playing the main role of Horus.
(b) Lostris has not learned her lines properly.
(c) He wrote a new script to replace the thousand-year-old version.
(d) He must direct the play.

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

11. What surgery must Taita perform on Rasfer after the pageant?
(a) Setting a broken arm.
(b) Sewing up several sword wounds.
(c) Draining the brain of blood.
(d) Removing splinters of an arrow.

12. 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.

13. Where do Tanus and Lostris first sleep together?
(a) In an empty hillside tomb.
(b) In Taita's bedroom one afternoon when he is gone.
(c) In his tent by the battlefield.
(d) In the hunting cabin by the river.

14. When Tanus disappeared, to whom did he hand over his squadron and Pharaoh's seal?
(a) Kratas.
(b) Lord Intef.
(c) Taita.
(d) Safaga.

15. How does Taita explain his absence to Pharaoh?
(a) He does not have a convincing reason.
(b) He says that he was on secret business for the goddess Hapi.
(c) He secretly tells Pharaoh everything that happened.
(d) He says these things are too holy to be spoken of.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the band of men who terrorize the Upper Kingdom?

2. Why do crowds of people wait onshore for the boats to return?

3. Of what crime does Pharaoh find Tanus guilty?

4. How are Taita's animals killed?

5. What is Pharaoh's primary concern for the future of his kingdom?

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