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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 13, Aton's Kingdom on Earth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why, at first, is is said that the people in the Lower Kingdom are requesting jars?
(a) They have discovered a way of preserving fish in salt and water.
(b) They are hanging them in the sunlight as a new decoration to honor Aton.
(c) They use them as drinking vessels.
(d) They are canning grain.

2. Why is the city of Hattushash unknown to outsiders?
(a) The city is low in a valley and cannot be found.
(b) It is a city where only the gods dwell.
(c) Because the king has closed it to foreigners.
(d) It is a secret holy city.

3. Who is crowned pharaoh after the death of Akhnaton?
(a) Eie.
(b) Horemheb.
(c) Nefretiti.
(d) Tutankhamon.

4. What does everyone know about the opening of the pharaoh's skull?
(a) That the pharaoh's brain must be studied.
(b) That the pharaoh will live.
(c) That no pharaoh has ever lived after the opening of the skull.
(d) That is ensures the pharaoh's place in the heavens.

5. While Sinuhe is in Akhetaton, where is Horemheb?
(a) Crete.
(b) Syria.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Memphis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who paints the paintings that decorate Sinuhe's office?

2. Who approaches Horemheb after the death of Akhnaton and tries to seduce him?

3. What does Pharaoh Akenaton want to do with the open walks and gardens and the sacred lakes?

4. Who is the king of Babylon?

5. What is significant about the slave that Sinuhe buys?

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