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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. Why is Zia so nervous about the next Chief Lector?

2. What is Nut the goddess of?

3. What is Bast the goddess of?

4. What is on the alter in the secret chamber that Zia sneaks off to in Paris?

5. How does the Arab girl protect them from the things chasing them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bast say the world is really created and run?

2. According to the author, how did this book come to be?

3. Why does Iksander say the Egyptian empire fell?

4. Why is Sadie's vision of Osiris's imprisonment interrupted?

5. What happens at the mansion after Bast appears?

6. What does Nut say to the person talking to her in their sleep?

7. What happens when Carter opens the Book of Thoth?

8. What do Zia and Carter see in the secret chamber?

9. How does Julius blow up the museum?

10. What do the two magicians at the Louvre tell Bast before they leave in the portal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

Power and Greed were two common themes in this book. Where did they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

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