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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hunt do Taita and Lostris attend with Pharaoh before the windstorm strikes?
(a) Elephant hunt.
(b) Gazelle hunt.
(c) Crocodile hunt.
(d) Leopard hunt.

2. What does Taita do the night Lostris is first called in to visit Pharaoh?
(a) Takes his night hawks hunting.
(b) Paces his own room in agitation.
(c) Plays a game with Aton outside the chamber.
(d) Drinks a sleeping potion and goes to bed.

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) In her inner chamber bedroom.
(d) Into her water garden.

4. What is the symbol of Pharaoh's power?
(a) A red falcon seal.
(b) The Gold of Praise.
(c) An enormous golden ring.
(d) A blue hawk seal.

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

6. How do the soldiers respond when Tanus orders them to put on the dresses of slave girls?
(a) They refuse until they know why.
(b) They refuse until Tanus threatens them.
(c) They laugh and protest.
(d) They treat the moment like a game.

7. What does Taita see at the end of Pharaoh's horoscope?
(a) A forest of trees, all bearing the double crown.
(b) A tree eaten by locusts and fallen to earth.
(c) Battles and bloodshed for one hundred years.
(d) A girl baby followed by a boy.

8. Pharaoh's palace is in the southernmost part of Egypt. What reason do some people give for this?
(a) To be able to extend his borders south.
(b) To be farther away from Lord Intef.
(c) To be as far as possible from the strife in the north.
(d) To be closer to the mouth of the Nile, a holy place.

9. What color does Lostris wear to prove she is a virgin bride?
(a) Gold like the sun.
(b) White like a pure heart.
(c) Red like fine wine.
(d) Blue like water lilies.

10. What change to the festival pageant does Taita protest?
(a) The fact that Lord Intef now gets credit for the pageant.
(b) The live execution of a thief.
(c) The removal of his main speech.
(d) Pharaoh's place in the audience.

11. What gives Taita the right to speak sharply to Tanus when he and Lostris board the Breath of Horus?
(a) He is Tanus's cousin.
(b) He was once Tanus's tutor.
(c) Tanus is a lowly soldier.
(d) Tanus was rude to him first.

12. How is Lostris thrown from the Breath of Horus?
(a) The rowers take a curve too sharply.
(b) The ship runs into the bull hippopotamus.
(c) She is startled by Taita's shout and falls.
(d) She tries to duck Tanus's arrow and falls.

13. Why did Tanus name his bow Lanata?
(a) It was Lostris's baby name.
(b) It was his first girlfriend's name.
(c) It was his mother's name.
(d) It was the Queen Mother's name.

14. What body parts are left inside a man when he is embalmed?
(a) The heart and lungs.
(b) The liver and stomach.
(c) The heart and kidneys.
(d) The lungs and brain.

15. How much loyalty does Tanus inspire in his men?
(a) About half of Tanus's regiment respects him.
(b) Most of Tanus's soldiers are loyal to him.
(c) Several men refuse promotions so they can remain in his regiment.
(d) Only Kratas and Remrem respect him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of what crime does Pharaoh find Tanus guilty?

3. To what army regiment does Tanus belong?

4. Out of the thirteen barons, how many are killed in this first battle with Tanus?

5. Near the end of the wedding feast, what does Taita discover about Pharaoh's personality?

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