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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Ptraci supposed to kill herself?
(a) She is an illegitimate child.
(b) She is an orphan.
(c) She has committed a sin.
(d) So she can be the late king's servant in his afterlife.

2. Teppic decrees that what will happen to Ptraci?
(a) She will be banished.
(b) She will be tortured.
(c) She will be set free.
(d) She will die.

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

4. Why does Khuft run into the desert?
(a) He is looking for food.
(b) He had been cheating people with his used camel business.
(c) He is running away from the villagers.
(d) He was trying to find the city.

5. The next day Dios comes in to talk to Teppic while Teppic is ______________.
(a) Getting his teeth cleaned by theroyal dentist.
(b) Getting a shave from the royal barber.
(c) Getting a massage from the royal masseuse.
(d) Getting a haircut from the royal barber.

Short Answer Questions

1. He goes to the home of his apprentice, Gern, and wakes him for what reason?

2. When do Teppic and Ptaclusp decide that the capping ceremony will begin?

3. What does Teppic discover when he is looking for the city?

4. Pyramids were made to create a null time in the central chamber for what reason?

5. Pyramids are _______ in the stream of time.

Short Essay Questions

1. What takes place in Teppic's dream?

2. How do Dios and Teppic meet the next day?

3. What do the clones of Ptaclusp tell him about the capping of the pyramid? Why? How does Ptaclusp respond?

4. What does Chidder do for Teppic and Ptraci?

5. What takes place between Ptraci, Teppic, and You Bastard and the two philosophers?

6. Where does Teppic leave Ptraci?

7. What is learned about the purpose of pyramids?

8. What happens when King Teppicymon XXVII awakens?

9. What ceremony is to take place the next day?

10. Who is the camel?

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