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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 48-107.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?
(a) He is playing the main role of Horus.
(b) He must direct the play.
(c) He wrote a new script to replace the thousand-year-old version.
(d) Lostris has not learned her lines properly.

2. What body parts are left inside a man when he is embalmed?
(a) The heart and lungs.
(b) The liver and stomach.
(c) The lungs and brain.
(d) The heart and kidneys.

3. Though Taita is an accomplished physician, what part of the human anatomy still confuses him (pg 88)?
(a) The veins.
(b) The heart.
(c) The brain.
(d) The lungs.

4. Once he is seated on the ark carrying his coffin, what unprecedented thing does Pharaoh do?
(a) Help Lostris into the seat beside him.
(b) Beckon Taita, the slave, into the seat beside him.
(c) Spurn the praise of the crowds.
(d) Acknowledge the praise of the crowds.

5. In the festival pageant, who plays the role of Seth, an evil god?
(a) Tanus.
(b) Rasfer.
(c) Taita.
(d) Lord Intef.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Taita help a shrieking woman at the riverside?

2. What is ironic about the double crown of Egypt that Pharaoh wears?

3. Who is Kratas?

4. What does Tanus name as one of the single worst afflictions to settle on Egypt?

5. Why did Taita help Tanus enter the army?

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