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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. Why is is important for Kaptah and Sinuhe to get aboard the ship that is leaving Crete after the death of Minea?
(a) It is the last ship to sail before winter.
(b) It is a ship blessed by the god Aton.
(c) Horemheb is on the ship.
(d) It sails directly to Egypt.

2. How has Aziru's seven-year-old son shown that he will be a great warrior?
(a) He can sword fight with grown men.
(b) He killed a man who attacked him.
(c) He has already slit the belly of a slave who insulted him and has gone into battle with his father,
(d) He practices his weapon skills daily.

3. What do people say about Nefertiti?
(a) That she is not as beautiful in person as people say.
(b) That she thinks only of her clothes and her indecent fashions.
(c) That she is not faithful to the pharaoh.
(d) The she is the pharaoh's real sister.

4. Why does Pepitamon grow weary of the warrior's life?
(a) He misses the open ocean.
(b) He misses his cats.
(c) He wants to be a merchant.
(d) He wants to go to work for Sinuhe.

5. How quickly does Akhetaton, the city, come into being?
(a) In 18 months.
(b) In a month.
(c) In a year.
(d) In two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kaptah buy with Sinuhe's money when they return to Egypt?

2. How is Aziru executed?

3. Who does Kaptah hire as a servant when the men return to Egypt?

4. When Sinuhe returns to Thebes the first time from Akhetaton, who has Kaptah lent money to?

5. What does Thothmes ask his students to do as they learn?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the young boy Tut described?

2. What is the art like on the island of Crete? How does this reflect the way the people of Crete live?

3. What does the Pharaoh Akhnaton believe he should do about the situation in Egypt once he is informed by Eie and Horemheb? After an evening of thinking what is his answer to the problems in the country? Why is this his decision?

4. When Sinuhe begins to practice again in Thebes, he finds he is making no money, but is happy. Why is this? What has changed in his attitude? Who does he want to become in his life?

5. Why does Sinuhe tell Horemheb that Princess Baketaton asked after him at her mother's deathbed when she did not seem really taken with Horemheb? Do you think Sinuhe believes that there is an attraction there? Or is he flattering Horemheb to get what he wants?

6. At the end of Book 14, Sinuhe says that the destiny of Egypt hangs on a woman's whim. Who do you think he is referring to and why?

7. Who forms an odd alliance to overthrow Pharaoh Akhnaton? Why is this an odd alliance?

8. What story does the storyteller on the street tell that Merit and Sinuhe hear as they walk toward to Avenue of Rams?

9. What other spies had Horemheb sent to Syria? How did they travel and hide themselves? Under what guise did they travel? Do you think they were able to gather more or less information than Sinuhe because he was able to travel as a doctor?

10. Why is the assassination attempt on Pharaoh Ahknetaton so shocking in Egyptian culture?

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