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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ralph lower past the smooth stone once they remove it from the cliff face?
(a) A rope.
(b) A light.
(c) A candle.
(d) A lantern.

2. Who is Margaret Finneran?
(a) Ralph's estranged daughter.
(b) Ralph's estranged fiancé.
(c) Ralph's estranged wife.
(d) Ralph's estranged sister.

3. What does Terbroogan feel for Trilipush?
(a) Dislike.
(b) Respect.
(c) Friendliness.
(d) Fear.

4. How are the columns in the sixth room decorated?
(a) They are painted red.
(b) They are unpainted.
(c) They are painted with pictures.
(d) They are painted with scrolls.

5. Before Ralph leaves to his villa, how many suits does he pick up from the tailor?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

6. What does Ralph say is the problem with putting riches into a tomb?
(a) Aging of the riches.
(b) Loss of the riches.
(c) Getting them into the tomb to begin with.
(d) Theft of the riches.

7. After Ralph seals the tomb, he orders Ahmed to hire what?
(a) Better workers.
(b) White workers.
(c) Smarter workers.
(d) More equipment.

8. The first day of the dig involves looking for signs of the tomb where?
(a) On the sides of hills.
(b) In the valley in the desert.
(c) At the lower level of a cliff.
(d) At the lower level of the plains.

9. With what does Ralph seal the tomb?
(a) A gate and padlock.
(b) Boards, rock and plaster.
(c) A wooden door and a lock.
(d) Metal bars, plaster and a lock.

10. Ralph speculates that the empty room they first find was meant to do what?
(a) Secure the location of the real tomb.
(b) Hide the real entrance.
(c) Ward off tomb robbers.
(d) Serve as storage.

11. What is the square yardage of the area that Ralph orders his workers to stake out for trench digging?
(a) 150 yard square.
(b) 250 yard square.
(c) 100 yard square.
(d) 200 yard square.

12. Why does Ralph have to take a route to his dig site that will keep him out of sight?
(a) He doesn't have the money to dig.
(b) He doesn't want anyone else to dig where he is digging.
(c) He doesn't want Carter to see him go to the dig site.
(d) He doesn't have official approval to dig.

13. Margaret gave Ralph a sculpture of what before he left?
(a) A cat.
(b) Herself.
(c) A dragon.
(d) A tomb.

14. When Margaret writes to Ralph about her dream of their first child, what does the first child say?
(a) Nothing but religious poetry.
(b) Nothing but curse words.
(c) Nothing but Egyptian mythology.
(d) Only Egyptian.

15. According to Ralph, what was Margaret doing when she and Ralph first met?
(a) Dozing in the front row.
(b) Sitting in the front row.
(c) Taking notes in the front row.
(d) Staring at him from the front row.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the investors in Ralph's first expedition have in common?

2. What does Ralph do to the tomb of King Atum-hadu after his first expedition?

3. Ferrell believes that Ralph is what?

4. What circus was Paul Caldwell once part of?

5. How does ter Breuggen fire Ralph?

(see the answer keys)

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