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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Thebes Fever.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phator do to cure the young slave with the splinter in his brain?
(a) He gives him powerful medicines for the pain.
(b) He is not able to help the slave.
(c) He opens his skull, takes out the splinter and puts a silver plate over it.
(d) He runs a velvet cloth over his head.

2. What, according to Sinuhe's father, is the most important thing for a young man to learn if he wants to be leader among his people?
(a) To write.
(b) To speak well.
(c) To know how to open a skull.
(d) To know the royal family.

3. What does Sinuhe tell his mother and father he wants to be when he grows up?
(a) A pharaoh.
(b) A warrior.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A painter.

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

5. How does Sinuhe know that he is to assist Phator and go with him to the pharaoh?
(a) He gives him his ebony box to carry.
(b) Sinuhe's father tells him to assist.
(c) Phator tells him to assist him in the palace.
(d) Phator sees Sinuhe's ring and knows he is destined for greatness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Amenhotep in the desert with Sinuhe?

2. Why is the day of Sinuhe's birth unknown?

3. Who is in the pharaoh's bedroom when Ptahor and Sinuhe arrive to open the skull?

4. How long does it take Sinuhe to pass his examination to enter the House of Life?

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

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