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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When some passengers are reluctant to travel south into Africa, where do they disembark?
(a) At the southern border.
(b) At Thebes.
(c) At the first cataract.
(d) At Elephantine Island.

2. Where does the Shepherd King shoot his first arrow as the battle begins?
(a) Randomly into the Egyptian troops.
(b) Into Taita's leg.
(c) Toward Tanus.
(d) Into Pharaoh's throne.

3. For the end of the Osiris festival, what did Taita design and build?
(a) A higher dais for Pharaoh's throne.
(b) A grander stage for the pageant.
(c) A small version of Pharaoh's home palace.
(d) Scaffolding stands for people to sit in.

4. How does Pharaoh spend the treasure he recovered from Lord Intef?
(a) He awards a quarter of it to Tanus.
(b) He pays the troops for the past year that they have not been paid.
(c) Half of it goes into his tomb.
(d) He sends half of it to the temple of Horus.

5. Why does Lostris delay the burial of her husband past the seventy days of embalming?
(a) Memnon is not yet old enough to attend the burial ceremony.
(b) The tomb is not yet finished because Pharaoh died earlier than expected.
(c) She is afraid the Hyksos will plunder the tomb.
(d) She does not feel that there is enough treasure to accompany him.

6. When Tanus accuses Lord Intef of being the chief of the Shrikes, what is Lord Intef's reaction?
(a) He begins denying everything vigorously.
(b) He runs through the small sacristy door.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He stands silent.

7. Why do the Hyksos pass by their victims rather than running straight into them?
(a) They can lean over the chariot edge and engage in swordplay.
(b) They do not want to sacrifice their horses.
(c) The knives on their chariot wheels cut apart the men.
(d) They prefer to intimidate the troops first.

8. How does Lord Intef die?
(a) Taita disembowels him with the wheel-knife of his chariot.
(b) Tanus drives his sword through him.
(c) Lord Intef's men turn on him when they see that Pharaoh's treasure is gone.
(d) Lord Intef drowns in the Nile when his ship catches fire.

9. At the beginning of the long voyage south, what is Memnon's favorite toy?
(a) His colt.
(b) His bow and arrows.
(c) Taita's unused scrolls.
(d) His building blocks.

10. How does the goddess Hapi answer the travelers' prayers at the beginning of their voyage?
(a) They do not lose any ships in the first cataract.
(b) The Hyksos do not attack them again.
(c) The Nile floods several weeks early.
(d) The Nile floods several weeks late.

11. How does Lostris ensure that Tanus is a part of her son's life?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) By ordering him to report directly to her.
(c) By sending her son to live with him.
(d) By hiring him as one of the royal tutors.

12. How far south had civilized man progressed, prior to this Egyptian journey?
(a) To the second cataract.
(b) To the first cataract.
(c) To the southern border of Egypt.
(d) To the source of the Nile.

13. What is the name of the place where the two rivers meet?
(a) Tehuti.
(b) Bathsheba.
(c) Cush.
(d) Qebui.

14. How do Hui and Taita capture the runaway Hyksos horses?
(a) The men lasso them.
(b) The men lure them with fresh barley.
(c) Taita sings to them.
(d) The men herd them toward the Nile so that they are trapped.

15. When Taita works the Mazes of Ammon-Ra to receive guidance about the Hyksos problem, how does his vision begin?
(a) With the goddess Hapi.
(b) With a forest of crowned trees.
(c) With the sound of thunder.
(d) With a long green snake.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the Hyksos a backward people, according to Taita?

2. When does Memnon first see Masara, prisoner of the Ethiopian king Arkoun?

3. Why does the queen not want her people to build a temple to Ammon-Ra?

4. How does Lord Intef escape his execution with the Shrike barons?

5. When Tanus enters the temple of Osiris, what is the crowd's reaction?

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