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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Sinuhe do on a return to Thebes to show that he is equal to the rowers?
(a) He refuses to beat them with a whip.
(b) He shares his gold.
(c) He rows the boat with the rowers for several days.
(d) He cooks for them.

5. What does Pharaoh Akenaton want to do with the open walks and gardens and the sacred lakes?
(a) He wants to make public parks and public lakes.
(b) He wants to build new business on the land.
(c) He wants to give the land to former slaves.
(d) He wants to put new temples to Aton on that land.

6. When Horemheb faces the Hittites the first time in the holy war, what will happen if the Hittites defeat Horemheb's troops?
(a) They will be able to attack Babylon.
(b) They will win the war entirely.
(c) They will be able to attack Egypt.
(d) They will be able to get to the sea.

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

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

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

10. What do the priest do with the statue of Ammon?
(a) They wait for Horemheb to destroy the statue.
(b) They oil the statue and pray and refuse to destroy it.
(c) They hide the pieces under their cloaks and take it away.
(d) They destroy the statue as requested.

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

12. Why does Kaptah want to go with Sinuhe into the mountain where Minea disappears?
(a) Because he is Sinuhe's friend and believes the sacred scarab will protect him.
(b) He thinks if Sinuhe dies, he will not be able to get off the island.
(c) He is curious to see where Minea has gone.
(d) He is not afraid of death.

13. What does Merit tell Sinuhe happened to the mother of Thoth?
(a) She disappeared and has not returned.
(b) She ran away and deserted Thoth.
(c) She killed herself.
(d) She died.

14. 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 return as patients.
(c) They are not pleased to see the Egyptians.
(d) They are happy to see the Egyptians.

15. What do they dress Minea in just before she enters the copper gates?
(a) In a long white dress with a small hat on her head.
(b) In a simple robe with her hair in a silver net.
(c) She is nude.
(d) In colorful robes with her hair piles high on her head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the Hittites done with the jars sold to them by the merchants of Egypt?

2. What kind of knots does the Queen Mother Taia tie?

3. When Sinuhe walks to the pharaoh's temple upon his return to Egypt, what does he find?

4. What does Aziru's son do when his father is attacked by assassins?

5. What does Kaptah use to find his way back to the opening of the cave?

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