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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thothmes ask his students to do as they learn?
(a) To draw from life and not from patterns.
(b) To abstract the old art.
(c) To copy the Egyptian art of old.
(d) To follow the patterns of the ancients.

2. What does Sinuhe think when the Hittites come to visit Ahknetaton?
(a) That they smell of corpses.
(b) That they want the cross of life.
(c) That they are honest in their negotiations.
(d) That they are interested in the new god.

3. After Sinuhe returns to Thebes the first time from Akhetaton, how does Kaptah pay for their dinner together?
(a) He pays with silver.
(b) He charges it to his expense account.
(c) He pays with clay tablets.
(d) He pays with gold.

4. Why does Pepitamon grow weary of the warrior's life?
(a) He wants to be a merchant.
(b) He wants to go to work for Sinuhe.
(c) He misses his cats.
(d) He misses the open ocean.

5. What errand does the Pharaoh Ahknaton send Sinuhe on in the name of peace?
(a) To spy on Eie.
(b) To visit his friend Aziru and negotiate a treaty.
(c) To follow Nefretiti.
(d) To talk to Horemheb and get him to stop shedding blood.

6. What would Horemheb not allow Aziru to see before his execution?
(a) Sinuhe.
(b) His wife and children.
(c) Kaptah.
(d) The Hittites.

7. When Horemheb returns to Egypt, who does he put in charge of the troops?
(a) Kaptah.
(b) The pharaoh.
(c) Sinuhe.
(d) Pepitamon.

8. When Sinuhe is dumped in the desert, and Aziru's chariots approach him, what do they do to Sinuhe?
(a) Rob him and strip off his clothes.
(b) Change him into white robes.
(c) Carry him back to Aziru.
(d) Shower him with gifts.

9. Who tells Sinuhe that Kaptah is dead?
(a) Merit.
(b) Merit's father.
(c) Muti.
(d) Thoth.

10. Who is crowned pharaoh after the death of Akhnaton?
(a) Eie.
(b) Horemheb.
(c) Tutankhamon.
(d) Nefretiti.

11. What does Kaptah use to find his way back to the opening of the cave?
(a) A spool of thread.
(b) He draws on the wall of the cave.
(c) A string.
(d) He drops rocks.

12. What does the Pharaoh Ahknaton think about hate?
(a) Hate is replaced with love.
(b) Hate is for the uneducated.
(c) Hate engenders hate.
(d) Hate is a necessary evil.

13. What gift does Horemheb give to Roju?
(a) A chain of green precious stones set in gold and enamel and a golden whip.
(b) A crown made of silver and gold.
(c) A wrist band made of silver.
(d) A ring made of a large ruby.

14. When the Crocodile's Tail is attacked, what happens to Merit and Thoth?
(a) They escape to Sinuhe's house, where they are killed.
(b) They escape and leave the country.
(c) They are chased through the streets and finally killed.
(d) They are killed.

15. What does Merit wish to pretend as she and Sinuhe and Thoth sail down the Nile?
(a) That they are rich.
(b) That they have adopted Thoth.
(c) That they are man and wife and Thoth is their son.
(d) That they can sail forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Sinuhe and Kaptah return to Smyrna after they return from Crete, how do their neighbors react?

2. What is the one thing that Sinuhe cannot give away in his negotiations with King Aziru?

3. What do the people call the Queen Mother Taia?

4. What does Sinuhe insist of King Aziru after he is greeted in the desert?

5. What do people say about Nefertiti?

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