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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 Rekh ask Ranofer to do?

2. What does Ranofer offer to the struggling apprentice?

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

4. What does Rekh ask Ranofer?

5. What do the boys do with the person who joined them for lunch?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What do Heqet and Ranofer do when the Ancient joins them for lunch?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Ranofer is working as a porter in Rekh, the goldsmith's shop. Ranofer would rather be an apprentice but his half-brother, Gebu, will not pay the required fees. In fact, Ranofer is forced to hand over all his pay to Gebu.

1. Why do you think Gebu will not pay Ranofer's apprentice fee, besides the obvious that he will not part with the money? Explain what other reasons he could have. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What would you do if you were in Ranofer's position in the above sentence? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss what the above sentence illustrates about Gebu's and Ranofer's relationship. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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