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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 will Kaptah NOT buy with Sinuhe's money?
(a) A slave-trading house.
(b) A new office for his physician's practice.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Buildings and businesses.

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

3. What does Sinuhe do on a return to Thebes to show that he is equal to the rowers?
(a) He rows the boat with the rowers for several days.
(b) He shares his gold.
(c) He refuses to beat them with a whip.
(d) He cooks for them.

4. Upon Sinuhe's return to Egypt, what do the priests say about gods other than Aton?
(a) That they worship Horus.
(b) That they will not say the word Aton.
(c) That they still worship Ammon.
(d) That they are false idols.

5. After the death of Akhnaton, how is the new pharaoh received by the people?
(a) They are jubilant.
(b) They sing songs of Aton.
(c) They are afraid.
(d) They are quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pharaoh Akenaton want to do with the open walks and gardens and the sacred lakes?

2. Who does Sinuhe meet at Kaptah's favorite tavern when he returns to Egypt?

3. What do the Hitites use spears and flags for in the holy war?

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

5. How is Aziru executed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sinuhe believe he sees the full brutality of man to fellow man during the holy war?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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. Merit tells Sinuhe that "falsehood may be sweeter than truth when one is much alone and past the spring of life." What does she mean by this comment? How is this related to her relationship with Sinuhe?

7. There is a belief on the island of Crete that those sacrificed to the god can return if they wish after a few days. They speak of a living god. How does this mirror modern religion? What message is the author trying to tell the reader?

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

9. Why does Sinuhe believe that if Aton falls, he does not want to live? What does he mean when he says, "it was another speaking?"

10. 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?

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