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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Taita conduct Pharaoh's tours of his treasuries?
(a) Lord Intef could not answer Pharaoh's questions.
(b) The priests could not answer Pharaoh's questions.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Pharaoh remembered him from the pageant and requested that he lead.

2. Why is Taita called the Elder Brother in the slave quarters?
(a) He cares for young slave girls after Lord Intef sleeps with them.
(b) He looks out for all new slaves who are brought to the palace.
(c) He cares for young slave boys after Lord Intef sleeps with them.
(d) He cares for Lord Intef's wives during their many pregnancies.

3. What invention of Taita's is Lostris thrilled with at her new home?
(a) An interior water garden.
(b) A water-stool.
(c) More vivid paints for the interior murals.
(d) A thatched barrazza.

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

5. How do Egyptians treat their women in comparison to surrounding nations?
(a) They idolize their women.
(b) They largely ignore their women.
(c) They are the cruelest.
(d) They are the most merciful.

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

7. Why does Lostris want to drink poison on her wedding night?
(a) To become ill so Pharaoh will pay more attention to her.
(b) So she can die and stop existing.
(c) So she can die and wait for Tanus on the other side.
(d) So she can become sick and delay going to Pharaoh's bed.

8. What kind of horoscope does Pharaoh demand of Taita on his wedding night?
(a) Casting lots.
(b) Reading the stars.
(c) Interpreting the scrolls of his birth.
(d) Working the Mazes.

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

10. What does Lostris ask from her father for a wedding gift?
(a) One hundred feddan of prime land.
(b) Five thousand gold rings.
(c) Taita.
(d) Tanus.

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

12. After Lostris disappears from the festivities on the shore, where does Taita find her?
(a) In Hapi's temple with Tanus.
(b) In her own tent with Tanus.
(c) In Tanus's tent with him.
(d) In the ship's stronghold.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about the double crown of Egypt that Pharaoh wears?

2. What does Shufti the baron offer Tanus in return for twenty of his "slave girls"?

3. How many wounded Shrikes does Taita care for after the battle?

4. Why do the Shrikes lose the battle?

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

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