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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 does Kaptah use to find his way back to the opening of the cave?
(a) A spool of thread.
(b) He draws on the wall of the cave.
(c) A string.
(d) He drops rocks.

2. What does Sinuhe read for a stranger in the City of the Dead?
(a) A letter.
(b) An inscription on a pharaoh's tomb.
(c) A boundary sign.
(d) The inscription on the tomb of Anukis.

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

4. When the prince is crowned, what does he decree?
(a) That the slaves are freed from the mines.
(b) That slaves will be given new jobs.
(c) That the town of Thebes will have no more liquor.
(d) That all children will be able to read.

5. Who does Princess Ankhsenaton break the jar with who will be the next king?
(a) Thothmes.
(b) Horemheb.
(c) Sinuhe.
(d) Tut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Syrian merchant bring Nefernefernefer?

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

3. When the prince is crowned, who is his royal consort?

4. Why is is important for Kaptah and Sinuhe to get aboard the ship that is leaving Crete after the death of Minea?

5. What does Sinuhe find odd about the city of Crete?

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