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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes upon Amenhotep and Sinuhe in the desert?
(a) Nefernefernefer.
(b) The pharaoh.
(c) Sinuhe's father.
(d) Horemheb.

2. Who does Nefernefernefer ask for the first time she meets Sinuhe?
(a) Sinuhe's father.
(b) Metufer, a classmate.
(c) The priest.
(d) Ptahor.

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

4. How many days does Sinuhe serve in the House of Death?
(a) 30.
(b) 70.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

5. What does Horemheb want Sinuhe to do for him after the battle with the Khabiri?
(a) He wants him to return to Egypt with him.
(b) He want him to go away and never see him again.
(c) He wants him to travel and spy for him.
(d) He wants him to talk to the pharaoh for him.

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

7. What is Sinuhe's favorite toy as a child?
(a) A reed boat.
(b) Glass marbles.
(c) A cane.
(d) A wooden crocodile.

8. To get off the boat, what does Kaptah suggest he, Sinuhe, and Minea pretend to be?
(a) Dancers.
(b) A group of doctors.
(c) A company of performers.
(d) Servants.

9. What is significant about the slave that Sinuhe buys?
(a) He knows Sinuhe's father.
(b) He has one eye.
(c) He speaks Greek.
(d) He is quite bright.

10. Who is Sinuhe's first teacher, hired by his father?
(a) Kaptah.
(b) Ptahor.
(c) Oneh.
(d) Hormeheb.

11. Why will Minea not board the second vessel bound for Crete from Hatti?
(a) The vessel looks unsafe.
(b) The master of the vessel stared at her.
(c) The master of the vessel has evil eyes.
(d) The vessel is cursed.

12. How does Sinuhe get to the City of the Dead when he has no money?
(a) He stows away on a boat.
(b) Kaptah steals a reed boat.
(c) He asks for a ride from a boat owner.
(d) He steals a reed boat.

13. Other than Ptahor, whom does Sinuhe's father ask to dinner?
(a) Thothmes.
(b) Kaptah.
(c) The pharaoh.
(d) Oneh.

14. What happens to Amenhotep in the desert with Sinuhe?
(a) He cries.
(b) He steals from a crypt.
(c) He gets drunk.
(d) He has a seizure.

15. What present does Ptahor send to Kipa the day after he leaves her house?
(a) A necklace of pearls.
(b) A precious ring.
(c) A sacred scarab carved from a precious stone.
(d) A thank-you note.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the day of Sinuhe's birth unknown?

2. How does Horemheb make money on his men after he give them their rewards?

3. When Minea wakes on the boat after her escape from Babylon, why is she angry at Sinuhe?

4. When Sinuhe opens a man's skull in Mitanni, what does he find?

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

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