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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. When Minea wakes on the boat after her escape from Babylon, why is she angry at Sinuhe?
(a) She thinks Sinuhe tricked her.
(b) She didn't want to leave Babylon.
(c) She is filthy and smells of blood.
(d) She wants to go straight home.

2. What, according to Sinuhe's father, is the most important thing for a young man to learn if he wants to be leader among his people?
(a) To know how to open a skull.
(b) To speak well.
(c) To write.
(d) To know the royal family.

3. What does Sinuhe tell his mother and father he wants to be when he grows up?
(a) A painter.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A pharaoh.
(d) A warrior.

4. What animal do the people of Babylon have that Sinuhe has never seen before?
(a) A camel.
(b) A bull.
(c) A hen.
(d) A horse.

5. Who is Horemheb in love with?
(a) Queen Taia.
(b) Baketamon.
(c) Nefertiti.
(d) Kipa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Sinuhe know that he is to assist Phator and go with him to the pharaoh?

2. In the land of the Hittites, how are the people ruled?

3. How many days does Sinuhe serve in the House of Death?

4. When the prince is crowned, what does he decree?

5. How long does it take Sinuhe to pass his examination to enter the House of Life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is important about being able to read more than one Egyptian character at a time? How does this make the reader different in the eyes of others?

2. What is the scarab to Kaptah? What is the scarab to Sinuhe? How do the two belief systems differ? How does Kaptah anoint the scarab?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. By his description of his servant, Keftiu, Sinuhe's opinion of women comes to light. What does he think of Keftiu? What does this tell the reader about his opinion of women in general?

6. What does the Keeper of the Archives In Hatti tell Sinuhe about the King? What is he warning Sinuhe about? What will happen in the future for the lands around Hatti?

7. What are the two truths of the young prince and Horemheb? How are they in conflict from the beginning? How does Horemheb argue with the sickly young prince about his truth when he first meets him? What does Horemheb fear of the future?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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