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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 Ranofer often do on his lunch hour?
(a) Read scrolls.
(b) Wander the city.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Study the jewelry in the market.

2. What does Rekh ask Ranofer to do?
(a) A task that only an apprentice would do.
(b) Draw a design for a bracelet.
(c) Take a necklace to a woman.
(d) Make more charcoal.

3. What is the name of the apprentice foreman?
(a) Jabet.
(b) Wenan.
(c) Nalit.
(d) Pai.

4. Where does Ranofer and Heqet go for lunch?
(a) Near the river.
(b) At his brother's house.
(c) In the apprentice quarters of Rekh.
(d) In the back of a jewelry shop.

5. Why do you think the scene with the hanging men might have been put into Chapter 3?
(a) So there will be at least one death in the book.
(b) To put some action into the story.
(c) To show what happens to thieves.
(d) As foreshadowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ranofer take with him when he leaves for work the next morning in Chapter 4?

2. What does Gebu tell Ranofer in Chapter 3?

3. Who joins Ranofer and Heqet while they are arguing?

4. What does Zau tell Ranofer?

5. What does Gebu give Ranofer for bringing a wineskin home that night?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Ranofer offer advice to and why? Who overhears him?

2. In Chapter 6, where does Ranofer report for work, what does he do at work, and how does it affect him?

3. What does Gebu tell Ranofer when he comes home from work the day Ibni is not there? What is Ranofer's response?

4. Where is Heqet going after lunch one day and what does he say to Ranofer?

5. What does Rekh ask Ranofer to show him and then what does he tell him to do? How does Ranofer feel about this?

6. What does Ranofer do when he finally arrives home?

7. Why does Ibni talk to Ranofer? What is Ranofer's response?

8. What does Ranofer tell Heqet and what do they decide?

9. What does Ranofer become aware of about a week after his new job? What does he think of it?

10. How does Ranofer run into Heqet and what does Heqet suggest?

(see the answer keys)

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