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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 ordering him to report directly to her.
(d) By hiring him as one of the royal tutors.

2. Where is Arkoun's castle?
(a) On a wind-swept mountain.
(b) On a vast plain.
(c) On the foothills of a mountain.
(d) On the banks of the Nile.

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

4. Why does Taita think he deserves to be called the best artist in all the land?
(a) Because of his painted murals.
(b) Because of his clay pots.
(c) Because of his medicinal skills.
(d) Because of his writing prowess.

5. How old is Lostris when she becomes queen?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Forty-five.

6. What happens to the reward that Pharaoh gives to Taita?
(a) Taita wastes it.
(b) It goes to Lostris instead.
(c) Taita buys several pieces of land with it.
(d) Pharaoh takes it back within a week.

7. What would happen if Lostris bore the illegitimate child of another man?
(a) She would be beheaded.
(b) She would not be allowed to keep the child.
(c) She would lose the crown.
(d) She would be ostracized from society.

8. How does Taita remove the arrow from Pharaoh's chest?
(a) With greased spoons.
(b) By gently working it backward.
(c) By pulling it out quickly.
(d) By pushing it through his body.

9. What gift does Tanus give to Memnon before he dies?
(a) The blue sword.
(b) The kingship.
(c) The Gold of Praise.
(d) The knowledge of his paternity.

10. Why are Lord Nembet and most of his men killed by the Hyksos?
(a) Lord Nembet laughed at Tanus's warning letter.
(b) The men were sailors not warriors.
(c) Lord Nembet had not trained them well.
(d) The men were poor archers.

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

12. What idea of Tanus's is shot down in the military council?
(a) Waiting for them in Thebes and gathering greater forces.
(b) Leaving the women and children by the Nile and traveling east to meet the enemy.
(c) Finding out more about the enemy from the east before engaging in battle.
(d) Traveling to the northern border to meet them head-on.

13. What does Pharaoh give Lostris after she gives birth to a male heir?
(a) Half of the treasure he had planned for his tomb.
(b) A new palace along the edge of the Nile.
(c) Precedence among all his wives and the title of Queen.
(d) A place for her coffin next to his in the tomb.

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

15. Why does the queen not want her people to build a temple to Ammon-Ra?
(a) There are not enough raw materials in the area.
(b) She wants them to remain travelers.
(c) She does not worship Ammon-Ra.
(d) She already built a temple to Hapi.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When do the Egyptians begin to flee toward their ships away from the Hyksos?

3. What does Taita name the gnu illness?

4. What is Memnon's reaction to the hunt?

5. How does Taita map out the Nile as the ships travel on it?

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