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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 Gebu tell Ranofer?

2. How do the days in the stone-cutting shop pass for Ranofer?

3. What does Ranofer decide to do?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Ranofer believe made noises in the night? How does he respond to his belief?

7. 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?

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

9. How does Ranofer feel about his thoughts on Ibni and Gebu by the end of the day? What does he want to do and why does he not want to do it?

10. How does Ranofer find his new job and why do you think he works so hard at it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

When Ranofer complains about his apprenticeship, the Ancient tells him he is lucky to be learning a skill and that he never learned one, forcing him to work menial jobs his entire life.

1. Why do you think Ranofer complains about his job? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think Ranofer's complaints and his depression or anger is justified? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Do you agree with what the Ancient told Ranofer? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Ranofer wakes, convinced that noises he heard in the night were the sounds of his father's spirit come to guide him. Ranofer gathers the small breakfast Gebu has left for him and visits his father's tomb, leaving half the meal as a gift.

1. Do you think it is possible Ranofer's dead father's spirit visited him? Why or why not.

2. Discuss why the fact that people in Ranofer's culture believed in life after death encourage the type of thinking Ranofer is doing about his father's spirit?

3. Given that Ranofer is a growing boy and needs all of his food, discuss the pros and cons of Ranofer leaving his breakfast at his father's tombs. Include in your discussion your own opinion of his action.

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