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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. While Lostris is pregnant, what is the one thing she asks for that she does not get?
(a) A promotion for Tanus.
(b) Snow from Syria.
(c) Freedom for Taita.
(d) A new palace in Thebes.

4. What happens when Memnon sees Masara again?
(a) He offers to make her queen of Egypt.
(b) He does not recognize her.
(c) He blushes and cannot speak.
(d) He falls to his knees in worship.

5. What dream does Taita have to explain Lostris's pregnancy?
(a) The child was conceived before Pharaoh's death but did not grow until now.
(b) The goddess Hapi approved of Tanus and Lostris's union.
(c) Lostris has generative powers to conceive a child without a man.
(d) Pharaoh came back from paradise and slept with her at night.

6. Why does Taita wait with Tanus's body the full forty days of embalming?
(a) Memnon wants him to ensure the body is safely transported.
(b) He is also preparing Tanus's tomb to receive his body.
(c) He is afraid to face the queen's grief.
(d) He wants to ensure the embalming is done properly.

7. What do Taita's pregnancy tests for Lostris involve?
(a) Crocodile meat and lily flowers.
(b) Mangoes and a full moon.
(c) Corn and frogs.
(d) Nile water and wine.

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

9. What does Taita name the gnu illness?
(a) The Yellow Strangler.
(b) The Red Death.
(c) The Black Strangler.
(d) The Black Death.

10. Following the battle with the Hyksos, what did Tanus do that caused him great grief?
(a) Said goodbye to Lostris for the next three months.
(b) Said goodbye to the dying Pharaoh for the last time.
(c) Burned half his ships because he no longer had men to pilot them.
(d) Burned the bodies of five thousand faithful soldiers who were killed.

11. When does Memnon first see Masara, prisoner of the Ethiopian king Arkoun?
(a) When she is sitting at the edge of the camp with her four jailers.
(b) When she is playing bao board with the king.
(c) When she is walking along the sandy shore of the Nile.
(d) When she is bathing on the banks of the Nile.

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

13. What is the constant problem with the first chariots?
(a) The men cannot drive the horses.
(b) The chariots are very heavy.
(c) The wheels fall off.
(d) The horses are scared of them.

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

15. When do the Egyptians begin to flee toward their ships away from the Hyksos?
(a) When Tanus calls them to retreat.
(b) When the battle changes to a massacre.
(c) When the men in front begin stampeding toward the back.
(d) When Pharaoh is hit with an arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Lostris establish a dozen hospitals and hotels for poor people in Thebes?

2. Why does Lostris disapprove of Memnon's marriage to Masara?

3. What gift does Tanus give to Memnon before he dies?

4. According to ancient Egyptian belief, what causes the Nile to flood?

5. How old is Prince Memnon when a messenger brings news of the fall of the Lower Kingdom?

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