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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Memnon argue so that he can go hunting with Taita and the other charioteers?
(a) Queen Lostris gave him permission to accompany Taita.
(b) He needs to practice his hunting skills.
(c) He is the crown prince and should lead his people.
(d) He deserves to be with the hunters rather than the women.

2. Why does Lostris wait in the palace as the Hyksos approach?
(a) She would rather die in her palace than be a wanderer.
(b) She does not realize the Hyksos are so close.
(c) She will not board the ship until all her people are onboard.
(d) She wants to test Tanus's love.

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

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

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

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

7. How does Lord Intef escape his execution with the Shrike barons?
(a) He buys his own life with half of his treasure.
(b) He argues that his execution will tarnish his daughter's reputation forever.
(c) He poisons the guards and slips out a secret passageway.
(d) He pleads with Pharaoh for mercy.

8. When some Egyptians want to leave the caravan ships traveling south, what does Queen Lostris do?
(a) Throws them overboard.
(b) Imprisons them in the ships' holds.
(c) Cuts their tongues out so they can no longer grumble.
(d) Offers to put them ashore for the Hyksos to find and capture.

9. Why are the Egyptians easily able to capture the Shilluk village in Cush?
(a) The village is small and insignificant.
(b) The men are out on the plain hunting oryx.
(c) The people had been betrayed by their chief.
(d) The people are not hunters and thus not prepared to defend themselves.

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

11. At the place where the two rivers meet, why is Taita not content?
(a) He is impatient to return to Thebes.
(b) He is not convinced this is the proper burial place for Pharaoh.
(c) He wants to continue traveling.
(d) He is uneasy to extend Egyptian power this far.

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

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

14. Why is Memnon awarded the Gold of Valour?
(a) He leads the first raid of the Shilluk villages to capture slaves.
(b) He saves Tanus and Taita from a wounded bull elephant.
(c) He accompanies Lord Aqer's expedition.
(d) He saves Tanus and Taita from being swept away in the river rapids.

15. What crude surgery does Taita perform to save the horses stricken with the gnu illness?
(a) Cuts out their tongues so they do not swallow them and choke.
(b) Slits their nostrils so they can breathe.
(c) Cuts a hole in their windpipes and inserts a straw.
(d) Cuts a slit in their sides so the pus does not reach their lungs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Shepherd King shoot his first arrow as the battle begins?

2. What would happen if Lostris bore the illegitimate child of another man?

3. How is Tanus injured in the first elephant hunt?

4. Who enticed the Hyksos to attack Thebes with promises of treasure?

5. How does Lostris ensure that Tanus is a part of her son's life?

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