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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 Pharaoh Akenaton want to do with the open walks and gardens and the sacred lakes?
(a) He wants to give the land to former slaves.
(b) He wants to build new business on the land.
(c) He wants to put new temples to Aton on that land.
(d) He wants to make public parks and public lakes.

2. Why does the new pharaoh bother Horemheb?
(a) The pharaoh wants Horemheb to stay with him all the time.
(b) The pharaoh writes poetry that he wants Horemheb to memorize.
(c) The pharaoh thinks deeply and talks of a new god.
(d) The pharaoh wants to go to war.

3. 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 laugh at him.
(b) Sinuhe flunks his year of study and must repeat it.
(c) Sinuhe is shipped down the Nile.
(d) They kick him out of class.

4. How quickly does Akhetaton, the city, come into being?
(a) In a year.
(b) In two years.
(c) In a month.
(d) In 18 months.

5. Who is Minea related to?
(a) The ship captain.
(b) Servants.
(c) Minos.
(d) Minotauros.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they dress Minea in just before she enters the copper gates?

2. What is wrong with King Aziru's baby?

3. What does Minea threaten to do on the boat to escape Sinuhe?

4. What do people say about Nefertiti?

5. When Kaptah and Sinuhe get to the opening in the cave where the sea enters, what do they find?

(see the answer key)

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