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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 10, The City of the Heavens.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What talent does Thothmes have?
(a) He writes music.
(b) He can draw and sculpt.
(c) He can sing.
(d) He can read.

3. What happens when Pharaoh Akenaton parades in public?
(a) The crowd sings songs to Aton.
(b) The crowd in angered by Nefretiti's dress.
(c) Chaos errupts and Horemheb has to come in and get control of the crowd.
(d) Everyone applaudes.

4. How do the Syrian wives dress?
(a) They are covered from head to foot.
(b) They always wear decorative hats.
(c) Brightly colored fabrics.
(d) Very little clothing.

5. 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 runs a velvet cloth over his head.
(c) He is not able to help the slave.
(d) He opens his skull, takes out the splinter and puts a silver plate over it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Minotauros wear on his head?

3. When the prince is crowned, what does he decree?

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

5. What shape is the god of the new pharaoh?

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