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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 Heqet ask Ranofer?

2. What does the new person at lunch suggest to Ranofer?

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

4. What does Heqet tell Rekh about in Chapter 5?

5. What does Ranofer decide later in the week about Ibni?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ranofer complain about to his two friends and what is the Ancient's response?

2. What does Ranofer do when Ibni approaches him at the end of the work day and what are the consequences for him at home?

3. Where does Ranofer work and what would he rather be doing? How would you feel if you were Ranofer?

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

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

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

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

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

9. About eight days after Ranofer talked to Heqet what does he see on the way home?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The queen asks Ranofer if there is anything he wants and he asks only for a donkey to help him earn his independence and his freedom to be a student under Zau. The queen not only gives him the donkey, but she gives him new clothes and gifts for his friends.

1. What does it say about Ranofer that he asks only for a donkey from the queen? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Ranofer wants to earn his independence instead of having it given to him. Why do you think he will value both his independence and his eventual apprenticeship more having earned it?

3. Discuss in detail why new clothes might be given to someone as a gift from a queen in a society. Why would new clothes be valued? If a boy did what Ranofer did in present times would it seem strange to give him new clothes? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

The story has come to a good ending, fulfilling the moral that being honest is the only way to get everything that a person might want.

1. How did you feel about the book ending without finding out what happened to Gebu?

2. Do you think the above moral is true? Do all honest people get everything a person might want? Why or why not?

3. If one said that hard work is the only way to get everything a person might want how would that statement conflict with the above statement?

Essay Topic 3

Ranofer knows that Gebu is stealing again because he can see the evidence in the new things Gebu has bought and the money he often gives to Ranofer. Ranofer talks about this with his friends and they decide to begin spying on Gebu and his friends.

1. What might be inferred from Ranofer's society from the fact that Ranofer thinks Gebu is stealing because he has new items and gives Ranofer money even though Gebu is a self employed stone cutter? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. How likely do you think it is that Ranofer as a young boy would notice and infer so much from so little? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Ranofer's friends would decide to spy on his brother and his brother's friends? What would they gain by doing this?

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