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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 Ranofer wish to do about living somewhere?

2. What does Ranofer realize Gebu is doing at night?

3. At the end of the first lunch, how do the boys view the new person?

4. How does Ranofer feel towards the end of the conversation with Heqet?

5. Why does Ranofer stop on the way to work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Ranofer do with the wineskin the day he meets with Heqet? How does his brother respond and what does Ranofer hear his brother say?

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

5. Who does Ranofer meet on his way home from work? Where does this person live and what does he do?

6. What does Ranofer decide is the only way to get away from Gebu and what does he want to do when he does?

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

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

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

10. What kind of situation is Ranofer in at home and who are the only people he can trust? What might those friendships do for him?

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

Gebu forces Ranofer to quit Rekh's shop and go to work in his stone-cutter shop as an apprentice. Ranofer reports to the stone-cutter shop where he begins by putting cutting sand in holes another worker is drilling. The work is boring and uses muscles that Ranofer has never had to use before. By the end of the day, Ranofer is very tired, but too sore to sleep.

1. Why do you think Gebu decided to make Ranofer work in his shop? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think the job seems boring to Ranofer? Would that job be boring to anyone? What could Ranofer do, in your opinion, to make the job less boring?

3. Discuss why Ranofer, even being young and in shape might be sore from doing a different type of job. Include in your discussion whether you believe Ranofer's state of mind could aggravate the way that his body feels.

Essay Topic 3

The more Ranofer thinks about it, though, the more he realizes that a tomb is the only place Gebu could have gotten a goblet such as the one he has. Ranofer is frightened because he knows the punishment is death, but he also knows that Gebu must be punished. This is a moral dilemma that Ranofer must handle alone because he does not want to cause trouble for his friends.

1. Why do you think Ranofer believes Gebu is stealing from tombs because of the goblet? Where else might Gebu have gotten the goblet?

2. Why do you think Ranofer is frightened because of the punishment for tomb robbing? Do you think he is concerned his half brother could be hung? Why or why not?

3. Discuss why Ranofer's decision is a moral dilemma? How could his friends get in trouble based on his decision?

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