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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near the end of the wedding feast, what does Taita discover about Pharaoh's personality?
(a) He is a kind man.
(b) He is a lewd man.
(c) He is a heartless man.
(d) He is incapable of loving anyone other than himself.

2. What is Pharaoh's primary concern for the future of his kingdom?
(a) That the kingdom is disintegrating from within.
(b) That the kingdom is attacked by foreign armies.
(c) That he has no male heir.
(d) That he has no worthy male heir.

3. What happens when Taita approaches Lord Intef to explain Lostris's love for Tanus?
(a) Lord Intef threatens to kill Tanus.
(b) He is imprisoned.
(c) He is whipped.
(d) Lord Intef listens and approves.

4. What invention of Taita's is Lostris thrilled with at her new home?
(a) An interior water garden.
(b) A water-stool.
(c) More vivid paints for the interior murals.
(d) A thatched barrazza.

5. How are Taita's animals killed?
(a) With a jar of poisoned honey.
(b) With a jar of poisoned goat's milk.
(c) With arrows.
(d) By starvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What change to the festival pageant does Taita protest?

2. Though Taita is an accomplished physician, what part of the human anatomy still confuses him (pg 88)?

3. How do the soldiers respond when Tanus orders them to put on the dresses of slave girls?

4. What is the name of Taita's friend who gives him information and supplies prior to the battle with the Shrikes?

5. How does Taita explain his absence to Pharaoh?

Short Essay Questions

1. What scheme does Taita dream up to help Tanus engage the Shrikes in battle for the first time? How is this scheme something that perhaps only Taita would think of?

2. What is the song that Tanus and his men sing during the thick of battle? What effect would this song have on the enemy?

3. Describe the murder of Tod onstage during the festival pageant. What does Taita reveal about humanity, as he perceives it, during this scene?

4. Why is Lord Intef delighted to arrange the marriage between Lostris and Pharaoh? What plans does he reveal to Taita? How does even this brief interaction show Taita's unstable position in the court?

5. Why is Taita angered when he sees Lord Intef in Thebes? What does this reveal to the reader about Taita's character?

6. How does Taita describe the hippo hunt? How does he see the animal in relation to divinity? What is the effect of the hippo hunt on Taita?

7. What will be the crowning moment of Pharaoh's life? What is Taita's reaction to this moment and how does the reaction seem contrary to Egyptian thought?

8. What is Tanus's reaction to the news of Lostris's coming marriage? What does this reveal about his character? Is this an admirable reaction?

9. What is the significance of the double crown of Egypt? Why might Taita mention it so often when he describes Pharaoh?

10. After Taita is whipped because he dares to petition for Lostris and Tanus's marriage, Lostris cares for his wounds. How does she reveal that she is still a child? What hope does the reader have that her marriage to Tanus will occur?

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