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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of seal does Sinuhe have made for himself in Smyrna?
(a) A seal made from a ruby.
(b) A cyllinder-shaped seal.
(c) A round seal.
(d) A diamond-shaped seal.

2. What does Sinuhe tell his mother and father he wants to be when he grows up?
(a) A warrior.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A pharaoh.
(d) A painter.

3. How does Horemheb make money on his men after he give them their rewards?
(a) He taxes the merchants where they will spend their booty.
(b) He convinces them to invest in his companies.
(c) He charges for food and beds.
(d) He has them followed and steals from them.

4. What does Sinuhe do with the gift from Nefernefernefer?
(a) He loses it.
(b) He gives it to his mother.
(c) He has his name engraved in the stone.
(d) He returns it to her.

5. What, according to Sinuhe's father, is the most important thing for a young man to learn if he wants to be leader among his people?
(a) To speak well.
(b) To know the royal family.
(c) To write.
(d) To know how to open a skull.

6. How are the children of Mitanni described by Sinuhe?
(a) Not very pretty.
(b) Like angels.
(c) Like cherubs.
(d) Like dolls.

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

8. Who played with Amenhotep like a sister when they were children?
(a) Nefertiti
(b) Thothmes.
(c) Sinuhe.
(d) Baketamon.

9. Who paints the paintings that decorate Sinuhe's office?
(a) Kipa.
(b) Ptahor.
(c) Kaptah.
(d) Thothmes.

10. What does Sinuhe treat King Aziru for?
(a) His teeth.
(b) His eyes.
(c) His stomach.
(d) A sinus infection.

11. What does Thothmes' father want Thothmes to do as an adult?
(a) Become a merchant.
(b) Become a charioteer.
(c) Become a sea captain.
(d) Become a warrior.

12. What trick does Sinuhe perform for the young king of Babylon?
(a) He shows him a human brain.
(b) He changes water into wine.
(c) He changes water into blood.
(d) He opens a skull for the king to see.

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

14. When the prince is crowned, who is his royal consort?
(a) The Princess of Mitanni, who still playes with dolls.
(b) Baketamon.
(c) The Queen Taia.
(d) Priest Eie.

15. When Sinuhe opens a man's skull in Mitanni, what does he find?
(a) Splinters in his brain.
(b) A tumor.
(c) Blood.
(d) Bruises.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years has the King reigned in Hatti?

2. Who comes upon Amenhotep and Sinuhe in the desert?

3. What animal do the people of Babylon have that Sinuhe has never seen before?

4. How is life different for a physician in Syria compared to Egypt?

5. What does Sinuhe transport Kaptah in to get him to the boat to escape Babylon?

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