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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does it take Sinuhe to pass his examination to enter the House of Life?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Two months.
(d) One year.

2. How long has Sinuhe been in exile at the beginning of the novel?
(a) 15 years.
(b) Three months.
(c) 2,000 years.
(d) Three years.

3. When Minea wakes on the boat after her escape from Babylon, why is she angry at Sinuhe?
(a) She didn't want to leave Babylon.
(b) She wants to go straight home.
(c) She is filthy and smells of blood.
(d) She thinks Sinuhe tricked her.

4. Who is in the pharaoh's bedroom when Ptahor and Sinuhe arrive to open the skull?
(a) Amenhotel, the heir only.
(b) The royal consort Taia only.
(c) The royal consort Taia, Amenhotep, and Baketamon.
(d) The priest Eie.

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

6. What happens in the city of Thebes when the pharaoh dies?
(a) All the shops are closed.
(b) The river runs red.
(c) The bars are all open and active.
(d) The temple is open for prayer and drinking.

7. How many years has the King reigned in Hatti?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 30 years.
(d) 28 years.

8. Why is the day of Sinuhe's birth unknown?
(a) He came out of the woods.
(b) He was given to his parents as a gift.
(c) He came drifting down the Nile in a little reed boat.
(d) He came from Smyrna.

9. What shape is the god of the new pharaoh?
(a) Triangle like the pyramids.
(b) Square.
(c) Oval, like the sun rising.
(d) Round, like the sun's disk.

10. Who becomes the wife to the new pharaoh?
(a) Baketamon.
(b) Nefertiti, the daughter of Eie.
(c) Nefernefernefer.
(d) Queen Taia.

11. When Sinuhe admits to the priest that the god Ammon did not speak to him, what do the priests and his classmates do?
(a) Sinuhe is shipped down the Nile.
(b) Sinuhe flunks his year of study and must repeat it.
(c) They kick him out of class.
(d) They laugh at him.

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

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

14. After Nefernefernefer gets Sinuhe's property, what does she want from him next?
(a) His father's property.
(b) His undying devotion.
(c) His slave.
(d) The bar he owns.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What illnesses do the Syrian merchants suffer from?

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

4. Who is Sinuhe's first teacher, hired by his father?

5. What kind of houses do the people of Babylon live in?

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