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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lady Baskerville say kept her awake in the night in Chapter 9?

2. What theory does Emerson have about the tomb?

3. While Amelia is entertaining, what does her son enter the room with?

4. What does evidence at the tomb lead Emerson to believe in Chapter 6?

5. What does O'Connell say about the tomb that is being excavated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What state is the tomb in when Amelia arrives at the dig site in Chapter 9?

2. What did Amelia think Milverton would confess to her in their midnight meeting? What does he actually confess?

3. What is the cause of a howl heard from outside Baskerville House in Chapter 5?

4. What theories does Emerson have about the tomb after the first day at the excavation site?

5. What does Emerson think of Amelia's arranged midnight meeting with Milverton?

6. What has curtailed Amelia and Emerson's travels to Egypt? What do they spend their days doing now?

7. What does Kevin O'Connell ask Amelia for in Chapter 9?

8. Why does Emerson insist on diverting the journey to the dig site by stopping in a village?

9. Why does Amelia believe Lady Baskerville employs Atiyah?

10. What claim does Madame Berengeria make when she meets the Emersons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the relationship between Emerson and Amelia. Are they happily married? How did they meet? What do they love and admire about each other?

Essay Topic 2

Examine and describe the background and career of the author of the novel, Elizabeth Peters. Is she knowledgeable in the subject of archaeology? What other novels has she written?

Essay Topic 3

What is a parody? What makes "The Curse of the Pharaohs" a parody? What is the novel a parody of?

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