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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 Sinuhe do with the gift from Nefernefernefer?
(a) He gives it to his mother.
(b) He has his name engraved in the stone.
(c) He returns it to her.
(d) He loses it.

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

3. Who is in the pharaoh's bedroom when Ptahor and Sinuhe arrive to open the skull?
(a) The priest Eie.
(b) The royal consort Taia only.
(c) Amenhotel, the heir only.
(d) The royal consort Taia, Amenhotep, and Baketamon.

4. When Sinuhe admits to the priest that the god Ammon did not speak to him, what do the priests and his classmates do?
(a) They kick him out of class.
(b) Sinuhe is shipped down the Nile.
(c) Sinuhe flunks his year of study and must repeat it.
(d) They laugh at him.

5. What does Thothmes' father want Thothmes to do as an adult?
(a) Become a charioteer.
(b) Become a merchant.
(c) Become a sea captain.
(d) Become a warrior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Other than Ptahor, whom does Sinuhe's father ask to dinner?

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

3. What does Phator do to cure the young slave with the splinter in his brain?

4. Who does Nefernefernefer ask for the first time she meets Sinuhe?

5. Who rules after Pharaoh Amenhotep III's death?

(see the answer key)

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