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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 Pepitamon do to find favor with Pharaoh Ahknaton?
(a) Brings a sacrifice to Aton.
(b) Names his cats after the pharaoh.
(c) Writes poetry to Aton.
(d) Changes his name to Pepitaton.

2. Why, at first, is is said that the people in the Lower Kingdom are requesting jars?
(a) They have discovered a way of preserving fish in salt and water.
(b) They are hanging them in the sunlight as a new decoration to honor Aton.
(c) They use them as drinking vessels.
(d) They are canning grain.

3. When Kaptah and Sinuhe get to the opening in the cave where the sea enters, what do they find?
(a) Minea alive.
(b) Minotaurus.
(c) A priest.
(d) A dead colossal bull.

4. What does Kaptah negotiate with Horemheb to win back his wealth after the holy war?
(a) The rights to any property in Crete.
(b) The sole rights to any grain in Babylon.
(c) The right to gamble with his warriors.
(d) The sole right to buy and sell all war plunder in Syria.

5. What is wrong with King Aziru's baby?
(a) It has a stomach ache.
(b) It is dying.
(c) It is cutting its first tooth.
(d) It has turned eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the warriors do to get control of the crowds in Thebes, but not to shed blood?

2. What does Merit wish to pretend as she and Sinuhe and Thoth sail down the Nile?

3. What does Sinuhe do on a return to Thebes to show that he is equal to the rowers?

4. How quickly does Akhetaton, the city, come into being?

5. What happens to the land of Mitanni in the end?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon returning to Egypt, what does Sinuhe find in the new artwork displayed in the city? Why is it so shocking? What has changed? Why is this significant to the story? Who does this threaten?

2. Does Sinuhe believe Pharaoh Ahknaton to be mad? Does he believe his madness? When he says "something in me has matured to receive his message" what does he mean?

3. Why does Sinuhe free Kaptah when they return to Egypt? What has happened to their relationship? How do you think the loss of Minea affected Sinuhe's ideas of slavery?

4. 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?

5. Which daughter does the Pharaoh Akhnaton favor and why?

6. When Sinuhe, Minea, and Kaptah arrive in Crete, what does Sinuhe notice about their idea of death?

7. When Kaptah and Sinuhe find the droppings from a large animal, what does this indicate will happen as they work through the labyrinth? What will they find?

8. What is the genius behind Kaptah's investments made for Sinuhe?

9. Why does Sinuhe believe that his revenge against Nefernefernefer is childish? What happens to her? Is this a surprise to Sinuhe? Why? Why not?

10. How does Akhnaton not know of any of the suffering going on outside the palace walls?

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