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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Minotauros wear on his head?
(a) The golden head of a bull.
(b) A crown.
(c) His hair piled very high.
(d) A small hat.

2. How does MInea dance in the competition once she reaches Crete?
(a) She appears out of practice.
(b) She dances dangerously.
(c) She dances better than anyone else.
(d) She dances happily.

3. Who approaches Horemheb after the death of Akhnaton and tries to seduce him?
(a) Muti.
(b) Nefertiti.
(c) Princess Baketaton.
(d) Merit.

4. Who is the sculptor in Akhetaton who builds all the statues and artwork for the city?
(a) Muti.
(b) Thothmes.
(c) Ptahor.
(d) Merit.

5. When Sinuhe and Kaptah return to Smyrna after they return from Crete, how do their neighbors react?
(a) They bring food for the Egyptians.
(b) They are happy to see the Egyptians.
(c) They are not pleased to see the Egyptians.
(d) They are happy to return as patients.

6. What does Sinuhe find odd about the city of Crete?
(a) The buildings are all painted in wild colors.
(b) There is a beautiful seaport.
(c) All the people dress poorly.
(d) There are no fortifications.

7. How does Pharaoh Akhnaton die?
(a) He is burned alive.
(b) He is killed by assassins.
(c) He is killed by the people of the city.
(d) He drinks poison given him by Sinuhe.

8. How does Sinuhe get his revenge with Nefernefernefer?
(a) He kills her.
(b) He publically denounces her.
(c) He tries to drown her in the river.
(d) He takes her to the House of Death and gives her to the emblamers.

9. What do the warriors do to get control of the crowds in Thebes, but not to shed blood?
(a) They hit them in the head with stones.
(b) They strangle people.
(c) They run over them with chariots.
(d) They shoot them in the head with arrows.

10. How is Aziru executed?
(a) He is bitten by an asp.
(b) He is poisoned.
(c) He is shot with arrows.
(d) His head is cut off with a sword.

11. Who does Sinuhe find held prisoner in Gaza?
(a) Merit.
(b) Kaptah.
(c) Nefertiti.
(d) Muti.

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

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

14. What have the Hittites done with the jars sold to them by the merchants of Egypt?
(a) The use them as weapons, cutting people with them.
(b) They hang them in the sun in honor of Aton.
(c) They are preserving fish in salt and water.
(d) They have brought water into the desert so they can survive there for quite a while.

15. What does Sinuhe insist of King Aziru after he is greeted in the desert?
(a) That he is allowed to change out of the robes.
(b) That he return the gifts.
(c) That he is given a chariot to ride.
(d) That the man who jabbed his behind is flogged.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Merit wish to pretend as she and Sinuhe and Thoth sail down the Nile?

2. What does Horemheb want his men to shoot at as the attacking forces draw near?

3. What gift does Horemheb give to Roju?

4. What does Pepitamon do to find favor with Pharaoh Ahknaton?

5. What does Sinuhe think when the Hittites come to visit Ahknetaton?

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