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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Nefernefernefer.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Sinuhe get his medicines?
(a) His father mixes them for him.
(b) He makes them.
(c) His mother makes all the medicines.
(d) He buys them from Crete.

3. How does Ptahor arrive at Sinuhe's house?
(a) He arrives in a chariot.
(b) He walks.
(c) He arrives by horse.
(d) On a chair borne by two slaves.

4. What, according to the prince, Amenhotep, is an abomination to Aton?
(a) Blood.
(b) Taxes.
(c) The Nile.
(d) His son.

5. Who rules after Pharaoh Amenhotep III's death?
(a) Baketamon.
(b) Ptahor.
(c) The Queen Mother.
(d) Sinuhe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Horemheb in love with?

2. How long has Sinuhe been in exile at the beginning of the novel?

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

4. What talent does Thothmes have?

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

(see the answer key)

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