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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. How does Lostris ensure that Tanus is a part of her son's life?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) By ordering him to report directly to her.
(c) By sending her son to live with him.
(d) By hiring him as one of the royal tutors.

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

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

4. When do the Egyptians begin to flee toward their ships away from the Hyksos?
(a) When Tanus calls them to retreat.
(b) When the battle changes to a massacre.
(c) When Pharaoh is hit with an arrow.
(d) When the men in front begin stampeding toward the back.

5. What is the name of the place where the two rivers meet?
(a) Cush.
(b) Tehuti.
(c) Qebui.
(d) Bathsheba.

Short Answer Questions

1. When some passengers are reluctant to travel south into Africa, where do they disembark?

2. What happens when Memnon sees Masara again?

3. Why does Queen Lostris establish a stone monument just past the first cataract?

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

5. When Tanus accuses Lord Intef of being the chief of the Shrikes, what is Lord Intef's reaction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Lostris and Tanus disagree over the fate of the Hyksos horses? How does this argument illustrate their respective places in society?

2. What does Taita call the worst day in Egypt's history? Why does he say this? How is he one of the central characters in the actions of this day, though it may not seem like it?

3. What is the attitude of the Hyksos as they face the Egyptians in battle? What do you think is the reason for this arrogance? What has led them this far west?

4. What is Taita's reaction to the birth of Memnon? How does he slightly bridge the gap between the roles that both Tanus and Pharaoh play in Lostris's life?

5. How does Pharaoh bring justice following the revelation of Lord Intef as Akh-Seth? How is his punishment for the Shrikes suitable? Additionally, how is it the harshest punishment an Egyptian can suffer?

6. Why does Queen Lostris demand an elaborate tomb for her husband? What does this say about her loyalty to Pharaoh and does it contradict her order that Egyptians would not make their home in the land of Cush?

7. What happens when the Nile floods? How does this event bring together science and religious observation? How is it also an opportunity for vice, particularly greed?

8. What is the reaction of both Tanus and Pharaoh to the news of Lostris's pregnancy? What do their reactions say about their personal priorities?

9. Who is Arkoun? Why is he a powerful man? At the same time, what in Taita's descriptions portray him as a pathetic man?

10. The Egyptians are terrified at the approach of the Hyksos army. What are the reasons for their fear? Do these fears contradict or affirm their previous actions as warriors? Who understands the importance of this eastern enemy the best?

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