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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What proves that Lord Intef owned the chests of treasure hidden in his palace?
(a) The hidden passageway to his rooms.
(b) The fact that they were hidden in his palace.
(c) His ring seal on the locks.
(d) None of the answers is correct.

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

4. When Tanus enters the temple of Osiris, what is the crowd's reaction?
(a) Rejection.
(b) Scorn.
(c) Disbelief.
(d) Worship.

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

6. After Lostris gives birth to a daughter, how soon must Taita have another dream to explain another pregnancy?
(a) Within the same year.
(b) Five years later.
(c) One year later.
(d) Two years later.

7. 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.

8. 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 prefer to intimidate the troops first.
(c) They do not want to sacrifice their horses.
(d) The knives on their chariot wheels cut apart the men.

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

10. How are the Shrike barons and Rasfer executed?
(a) Shot by a crew of archers.
(b) Thrown to the crocodiles.
(c) Nailed upside-down to the city gates.
(d) Starved to death in their prison cells.

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

12. 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.

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

14. What gift does Taita leave on Tanus's coffin before the tomb is sealed?
(a) His bow Lanata.
(b) The blue sword.
(c) A carving of Tanus's likeness.
(d) A statue of Lostris.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Taita think he deserves to be called the best artist in all the land?

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

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

4. For the end of the Osiris festival, what did Taita design and build?

5. What does Pharaoh give Lostris after she gives birth to a male heir?

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