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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 the Ancient warn the boys to do?

2. What seems to be one of Gebu's favorite activities?

3. Why doesn't Ranofer follow Gebu the first night after he decides to do it?

4. What does Ranofer ask for when the queen wants to give him a reward?

5. What does Ranofer try to do on his lunch break?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ranofer do when Gebu does not give him any supper and what does he find?

2. Where is the first place Ranofer looks for help? What does he do after that?

3. What are Heqet and the Ancient doing while Ranofer is trying to catch Gebu?

4. What does Ranofer decide to do because of the goblet and what is Heqet's response?

5. What has Ranofer become interested in the shop, what does he ask Gebu and what is Gebu's response?

6. What do you think of the ending and what moral might be inferred from it?

7. Who pulls Ranofer aside after he speaks with the queen? What does he ask and what does Ranofer tell him?

8. Why do you think Ranofer believes Gebu is stealing again?

9. What did Heqet hear Gebu and Wenamon discussing and what does Ranofer think it means?

10. What does the Ancient tell Ranofer he overheard with Gebu and Setma?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Chose one of the following pairs and compare and contrast the characters:

1. Ibni with Heqet.

2. The Ancient with Gebu.

3. Heqet and Ranofer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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