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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 Thothmes ask his students to do as they learn?
(a) To draw from life and not from patterns.
(b) To follow the patterns of the ancients.
(c) To copy the Egyptian art of old.
(d) To abstract the old art.

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

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

4. What do the Hittites bring as a gift to the young Tut that goes with him to his tomb?
(a) A blue hippopatumus.
(b) A necklace made of shells.
(c) A knife of blue metal.
(d) A crowns of gold and jewels.

5. What would Horemheb not allow Aziru to see before his execution?
(a) Sinuhe.
(b) The Hittites.
(c) His wife and children.
(d) Kaptah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Horemheb give to Roju?

2. What does Horemheb think is the cornerstone of the holy war?

3. What do the teachers tell Sinuhe about teaching every child to read and write?

4. When Sinuhe sees Horemheb at his return to Egypt, what does Horemheb tell Sinuhe about what is to happen the next day?

5. How many years does Sinuhe spend in Akhetaton?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Horemheb react when he discovers that the priests are using human sacrifices after the death of Akhnaton? How does Sinuhe react?

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. 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?

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 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?

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

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

8. Upon meeting again with Horemheb, Sinuhe argues in defense of Pharaoh Akhnaton's beliefs. Do you think the loss of Minea affects the basic belief system of Sinuhe? How do you think he views religion now? Remember his experience in the House of Life as a student and then look at his experience with Minea and the bull? What do you think his beliefs are now?

9. 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?

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

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