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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 15, Horemheb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why, at first, is is said that the people in the Lower Kingdom are requesting jars?
(a) They are hanging them in the sunlight as a new decoration to honor Aton.
(b) They are canning grain.
(c) They have discovered a way of preserving fish in salt and water.
(d) They use them as drinking vessels.

2. What kind of houses do the people of Babylon live in?
(a) Small adobe huts.
(b) Townhouses, four or five stories high.
(c) Stone structures.
(d) Wooden structures.

3. What is the one thing that Sinuhe cannot give away in his negotiations with King Aziru?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Kem.
(c) Gaza.
(d) Mitanni.

4. When Sinuhe request that bread be baked for the poor, what phrase does he want said to them as the bread is passed out?
(a) My bread is your bread.
(b) This is bread for the poor, take it.
(c) This bread will multiply.
(d) This is the bread of Aton; take ye and eat of it in his name.

5. When does Minea know that she must return to the land of Crete?
(a) When she hears the sea gods calling.
(b) When she sees a ship from Crete.
(c) When she dances with with bulls.
(d) When she falls in love with Sinuhe.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the god Ammon statue talks to Sinuhe, whose voice does Sinuhe hear?

3. When Sinuhe finds his old friend Thothmes, what is he doing for a living?

4. Why is is important for Kaptah and Sinuhe to get aboard the ship that is leaving Crete after the death of Minea?

5. Who does Princess Baketamon write to in order to have a husband?

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