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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 108-145.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do crowds of people wait onshore for the boats to return?
(a) They cannot begin the feast of Osiris until Lostris returns.
(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 want to welcome Lostris back home.

3. Of what crime does Pharaoh find Tanus guilty?
(a) Lying.
(b) Treason.
(c) Thievery.
(d) Revolt.

4. What gives Taita the right to speak sharply to Tanus when he and Lostris board the Breath of Horus?
(a) Tanus was rude to him first.
(b) He was once Tanus's tutor.
(c) He is Tanus's cousin.
(d) Tanus is a lowly soldier.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What body parts are left inside a man when he is embalmed?

2. Why did Lord Intef engineer the downfall of Lord Harrab, Tanus's father?

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

4. In order to thwart Pharaoh, what is Tanus's plan?

5. When Taita explains Pharaoh's horoscope to Lostris, why does it give her hope?

(see the answer key)

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