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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ptraci, Teppic, and You Bastard reach Ephebe and meet two philosophers who are ______________.
(a) Singing.
(b) Talking.
(c) Hunting deer.
(d) Shooting at turtles on sticks.

2. What does Teppic discover when he is looking for the city?
(a) If he holds his head at the correct angle and squints, he can see the city throught a crack in a stone.
(b) The lost city of Atlantis.
(c) Ephebe.
(d) Another city.

3. What does IIb decide is the only way to fix Ila?
(a) To destroy him.
(b) To build another pyramid.
(c) To kill Dios.
(d) To destroy the pyramid.

4. There is a man in a cell that has cursed in the name of the king. What is his punishment?
(a) His tongue is to be cut out of his mouth.
(b) His eyes are to be gouged out.
(c) Death.
(d) His hands are to be cut off.

5. What does Chidder do for Teppic and Ptraci?
(a) He takes them as passengers on his boat and gives them clothes.
(b) He gives them money.
(c) He saves the city.
(d) He finds them a way home.

6. Why, when the king dies, is a pyramid built and his body mummified?
(a) The reason for the pyramid has been forgotten.
(b) Mummification prepares the king for his journey into the afterlife.
(c) No one can survive the power of the pyramid without being mummified.
(d) Mummification preserves a king for many centuries.

7. The great pyramid has become so _____________ that touching it burns the skin.
(a) Cold.
(b) Acidic.
(c) Diseased.
(d) Hot.

8. When they are getting ready to leave, Teppic decides that they will do what with the others in the prison?
(a) Free them.
(b) Torture them.
(c) Feed them.
(d) Kill them.

9. Where does the dead king say that the girl went?
(a) Out.
(b) To the courtroom.
(c) To the prison.
(d) Home.

10. Meanwhile, Ptaclusp is walking around the base of the large pyramid looking for ______________.
(a) Dios.
(b) King Teppicymon XXVII.
(c) Teppic.
(d) His sons, Ila and Ilb.

11. How does Teppic act when Dios tells him that the girl from court has been freed from the prison?
(a) Embarrassed.
(b) Guilty.
(c) Shocked.
(d) Angry.

12. Dios remembers all the times that he has made the trip to the necropolis to revive himself. Why did he have to do this?
(a) He was afraid of dying.
(b) He was looking for someone to rule.
(c) He was bored.
(d) There was no one to rule that was competent.

13. Who is Koomi?
(a) Teppic's brother.
(b) Dil's assistant.
(c) A priest in the palace.
(d) Dios' apprentice.

14. What had some of the gods begun to do?
(a) Leave.
(b) Die.
(c) Fight over the right to rule the sun.
(d) Evaporate.

15. Why does Ptraci not realize that Teppic is the king?
(a) He had worn the ceremonial mask during her trial.
(b) He shaved off his beard.
(c) He is wearing a disguise.
(d) He has cut his hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the city of Ephebe decide to retaliate against Tsort?

2. What does Dios do when Teppic tries to pass what he feels are fair judgments for the people?

3. How is Ila moving?

4. Teppic needs a place to hide Ptraci and leaves her ______________.

5. Dios is there waiting on Teppic and Ptraci with several guards and orders that they will be killed for what reason?

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