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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. What does Phator do to cure the young slave with the splinter in his brain?
(a) He opens his skull, takes out the splinter and puts a silver plate over it.
(b) He gives him powerful medicines for the pain.
(c) He runs a velvet cloth over his head.
(d) He is not able to help the slave.

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

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

4. What does Sinuhe do with the gift from Nefernefernefer?
(a) He has his name engraved in the stone.
(b) He loses it.
(c) He gives it to his mother.
(d) He returns it to her.

5. Why will Minea not board the second vessel bound for Crete from Hatti?
(a) The master of the vessel stared at her.
(b) The master of the vessel has evil eyes.
(c) The vessel is cursed.
(d) The vessel looks unsafe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years has the King reigned in Hatti?

2. The morning after Sinuhe and Minea have slept on the boat escaping from Babylon, what is the noise they hear?

3. How does Sinuhe get his medicines?

4. Who becomes the wife to the new pharaoh?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Sinuhe defend the young prince to Horemheb? What does Sinuhe think of the young prince's beliefs? Do you think he is affected in this way because of his experiences in the House of Life? Why? Why not?

3. What does Minea bring to Sinuhe? What does she restore in his life? Why is she an important character to his life and to his healing?

4. Sinuhe meets a man in the City of Dead when he buries his parents. What is this man's story a moral for in the story? What lesson does this impart to Sinuhe or to the reader? What message is the author trying to tell?

5. 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?

6. When Ptahor is opening the skull of the pharaoh, the young prince steps forward and speaks of a blessing from the god Aton. How does Ptahor react to this? Why does he react as he does?

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

10. Why does Senmut take Sinuhe to meet Inteb, the warrior? What lesson does Senmut want Sinuhe to leave with?

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