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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is Prince Memnon when a messenger brings news of the fall of the Lower Kingdom?
(a) Five months old.
(b) Twenty-one years old.
(c) Five years old.
(d) One month old.

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

5. What is Pharaoh's last wish to Lostris?
(a) That she hand over power to Memnon immediately.
(b) That she rally the nation and defeat the Hyksos.
(c) That she find Lord Intef and bring him to justice.
(d) That she finish his tomb and bury him according to The Book of the Dead.

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

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

8. Why does Lostris establish a dozen hospitals and hotels for poor people in Thebes?
(a) Because she is bored and lonely.
(b) Because it was her father's last wish.
(c) Because Taita encouraged her to do it.
(d) Because Tanus had been generous with the military veterans.

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

10. After he is captured by Arkoun, why is Taita revered?
(a) He gives them all the gold he was carrying.
(b) He shows them maps of the Nile, which they could not draw.
(c) He demonstrates his medical skill on his own arrow wound.
(d) He can speak their language, which is simple.

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

12. After setting up the stone monument, why does the queen give Taita the Gold of Praise?
(a) Because the people expect her to acknowledge him.
(b) Because Tanus asked her to.
(c) To honor a promise she had made to her father.
(d) To honor his help in getting the Egyptian people that far.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After Lostris gives birth to a daughter, how soon must Taita have another dream to explain another pregnancy?

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

3. What happens when Memnon sees Masara again?

4. When Taita works the Mazes of Ammon-Ra to receive guidance about the Hyksos problem, how does his vision begin?

5. Just past the fourth cataract, what do the Egyptians encounter for the first time in their lives?

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