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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 12, The Water Clock Measures Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they dress Minea in just before she enters the copper gates?
(a) In a long white dress with a small hat on her head.
(b) In a simple robe with her hair in a silver net.
(c) In colorful robes with her hair piles high on her head.
(d) She is nude.

2. How does Sinuhe get to the City of the Dead when he has no money?
(a) He asks for a ride from a boat owner.
(b) He stows away on a boat.
(c) He steals a reed boat.
(d) Kaptah steals a reed boat.

3. What happens to the land of Mitanni in the end?
(a) It is absorbed into Babylon.
(b) It conquers the Hittites.
(c) They are invaded and wiped out by the Hittites.
(d) It thrives after the Hittites invade.

4. What does Merit tell Sinuhe happened to the mother of Thoth?
(a) She died.
(b) She killed herself.
(c) She disappeared and has not returned.
(d) She ran away and deserted Thoth.

5. Where does Sinuhe bury his parents?
(a) In the desert.
(b) In a pauper's cemetary.
(c) Near the temple of Ammon.
(d) Near the entrance of a royal tomb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kaptah want to go with Sinuhe into the mountain where Minea disappears?

2. What does Sinuhe insist of King Aziru after he is greeted in the desert?

3. Why, at first, is is said that the people in the Lower Kingdom are requesting jars?

4. What does Thothmes ask his students to do as they learn?

5. When Kaptah and Sinuhe get to the opening in the cave where the sea enters, what do they find?

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