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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sinuhe know that he is to assist Phator and go with him to the pharaoh?
(a) Phator tells him to assist him in the palace.
(b) Phator sees Sinuhe's ring and knows he is destined for greatness.
(c) Sinuhe's father tells him to assist.
(d) He gives him his ebony box to carry.

2. After Sinuhe gives everything over to Neferrneferrnefer, what does he learn when he returns home?
(a) That his parents are dead.
(b) That the new pharaoh is sick.
(c) That he must leave Egypt.
(d) That Kaptah is dead.

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

4. Other than Ptahor, whom does Sinuhe's father ask to dinner?
(a) The pharaoh.
(b) Kaptah.
(c) Oneh.
(d) Thothmes.

5. What god does the young heir call upon to bless his father at the opening of his skull?
(a) The god Ammon.
(b) The god Moses.
(c) The god Aton.
(d) The god Horus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the prince, Amenhotep, is an abomination to Aton?

2. Why is the day of Sinuhe's birth unknown?

3. What does Sinuhe read for a stranger in the City of the Dead?

4. When Sinuhe finds his old friend Thothmes, what is he doing for a living?

5. What does Minea threaten to do on the boat to escape Sinuhe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sinuhe continue to give Nefernefernefer all he possesses? Why can he not pull himself away from her? What is her appeal to Sinuhe? What is his behavior a metaphor for?

2. Sinuhe speaks of a remedy from the Hittites that cures the body of heat. What is this remedy called today? How do you think the Hittites created this drug?

3. Why does Horemheb want Sinuhe to be his spy? What does Sinuhe have to offer that others cannot? What does Sinuhe have to gain from this experience? Will this affect Sinuhe's life if and when he returns to Egypt? Why? Why not?

4. Why does Sinuhe feel that Mitanni is doomed? Where is Mitanni in relation to other countries? Why does this mean extinction for these people?

5. When Sinuhe and Kaptah arrive in Babylon, Kaptah wants Sinuhe to announce his presence to the other physicians in a certain way. How does he want Sinuhe to announce that he is in Babylonia? Why? Why is this important to their relationships with others? Is this political correctness for the time? Why?

6. When Sinuhe opens a skull and finds that the "disease had laid its egg" what does he mean by that? What is the egg inside the man's head? What does Sinuhe do with it? How does he repair the opening? What is significant about the fact that the man falls from a wall three days later and breaks his neck and dies? What is that supposed to symbolize?

7. Explain the process that Sinuhe is taught in school about life after death. Who is Osiris? Who is the Devourer? What does the Devourer look like? Who is the Backward-Gazer? Why is this important knowledge for the average Egyptian?

8. On the night that Ammon is supposed to appear before the students in the House of Life, what happens to Sinuhe? What does he do that is different from his classmates? Why does he tell the truth to the priest in the morning? What does this say about his basic character?

9. When Minea, Kaptah and Sinuhe are traveling pretending to be performers, Sinuhe continues to cure the sick. Why does he do this? Cannot this lead to discovery of who they are? Is this dangerous? Why would he do this and put all their lives in danger?

10. In Babylon, the astrologers know the heavenly bodies. What does this tell us about the people of Babylon? Is this advanced science for the time? Why? Why not? How will this knowledge affect the gods that they worship?

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