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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 445-494.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do crowds of people wait onshore for the boats to return?
(a) They want to welcome Lostris back home.
(b) They are concerned for the safety of the sailors.
(c) They are allowed to eat hippopotamus only then, during the feast of Osiris.
(d) They cannot begin the feast of Osiris until Lostris returns.

2. Why does the queen not want her people to build a temple to Ammon-Ra?
(a) She wants them to remain travelers.
(b) There are not enough raw materials in the area.
(c) She already built a temple to Hapi.
(d) She does not worship Ammon-Ra.

3. What is the constant problem with the first chariots?
(a) The men cannot drive the horses.
(b) The chariots are very heavy.
(c) The horses are scared of them.
(d) The wheels fall off.

4. Why does Lostris delay the burial of her husband past the seventy days of embalming?
(a) Memnon is not yet old enough to attend the burial ceremony.
(b) The tomb is not yet finished because Pharaoh died earlier than expected.
(c) She is afraid the Hyksos will plunder the tomb.
(d) She does not feel that there is enough treasure to accompany him.

5. How are the Hyksos a backward people, according to Taita?
(a) They cannot read or write.
(b) They serve savage gods.
(c) Their women are treated like slaves.
(d) Their means of warfare are primitive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Lostris thrown from the Breath of Horus?

2. Why does Taita wait with Tanus's body the full forty days of embalming?

3. How do Hui and Taita capture the runaway Hyksos horses?

4. Why does Lostris establish a dozen hospitals and hotels for poor people in Thebes?

5. What does Memnon argue so that he can go hunting with Taita and the other charioteers?

(see the answer key)

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