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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 Kaptah use to find his way back to the opening of the cave?
(a) He drops rocks.
(b) A string.
(c) He draws on the wall of the cave.
(d) A spool of thread.

2. How do the women of Crete wear their hair?
(a) Curly and short.
(b) High on their head with small hats.
(c) Cut like a boys.
(d) Flat to their heads with lots of oils.

3. While Sinuhe is in Akhetaton, where is Horemheb?
(a) Crete.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Syria.

4. What does Merit wish to pretend as she and Sinuhe and Thoth sail down the Nile?
(a) That they are rich.
(b) That they can sail forever.
(c) That they are man and wife and Thoth is their son.
(d) That they have adopted Thoth.

5. How does MInea dance in the competition once she reaches Crete?
(a) She appears out of practice.
(b) She dances dangerously.
(c) She dances happily.
(d) She dances better than anyone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who approaches Horemheb after the death of Akhnaton and tries to seduce him?

2. Why is is important for Kaptah and Sinuhe to get aboard the ship that is leaving Crete after the death of Minea?

3. What does Sinuhe try to convince Aziru of when he sees him as a prisoner?

4. What errand does the Pharaoh Ahknaton send Sinuhe on in the name of peace?

5. What gift does Horemheb give to Roju?

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. 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?

3. How is the young boy Tut described?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. How does Horemheb get control over the city after Pepitaton has caused such chaos?

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