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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 is Ranofer offered outside the apprentice quarters?
(a) A fig.
(b) A piece of bread.
(c) A new shirt.
(d) Some new shoes.

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

3. 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) As foreshadowing.
(c) To put some action into the story.
(d) To show what happens to thieves.

4. Where does Gebu usually go when he comes in the shop?
(a) To watch Ranofer work.
(b) To the scroll room.
(c) To the eating room.
(d) To the cutting table.

5. What does Ranofer decide later in the week about Ibni?
(a) He is wrong for his sister.
(b) He is a good person.
(c) He will make Ranofer a party to his schemes.
(d) He is taking advantage of Ranofer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Heqet suggest to Ranofer when they see each other one day?

2. What does Ranofer find out after Ibni asks his favor?

3. How does Ranofer feel physically after working the first day at his brother's shop?

4. What does Ranofer find when he comes to work the day after the hanging?

5. How does Zau respond to Ranofer's reminder?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ranofer say to Zau and what is his response?

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

4. What does Ranofer learn that makes him think about Ibni's request?

5. About what do Ranofer and Heqet argue and how does the Ancient settle the argument?

6. What does Gebu usually do when he comes into the shop?

7. Who does Ranofer see on the way to work and what happens when they talk?

8. How does Ranofer feel when he wakes after his confrontation with Gebu? Why does he feel that way? How does Ranofer walk to work and what does he do on the way?

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

10. Why does the Ancient keep Ranofer from watching a punishment? Do you think the Ancient was right?

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