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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 191- 243.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surgery must Taita perform on Rasfer after the pageant?
(a) Setting a broken arm.
(b) Removing splinters of an arrow.
(c) Sewing up several sword wounds.
(d) Draining the brain of blood.

2. What does Lostris ask from her father for a wedding gift?
(a) One hundred feddan of prime land.
(b) Taita.
(c) Tanus.
(d) Five thousand gold rings.

3. How are Taita's animals killed?
(a) With arrows.
(b) With a jar of poisoned goat's milk.
(c) With a jar of poisoned honey.
(d) By starvation.

4. When Taita explains Pharaoh's horoscope to Lostris, why does it give her hope?
(a) Pharaoh will be dead within the year.
(b) Tanus will rescue her in five years.
(c) Pharaoh will be dead in five years.
(d) She and Tanus will die and go to paradise together.

5. How does Tanus get back into shape after his weeks of drinking and laziness?
(a) Three weeks' worth of sword practice.
(b) A four-day march with his regiment.
(c) Two weeks' worth of difficult training.
(d) Fighting the Shrikes on the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Taita conspicuously display over the harem wall the morning after Lostris's wedding?

2. What does Taita see at the end of Pharaoh's horoscope?

3. What deity is both Lostris's patron and symbolized by the hippopotamus?

4. Why is Taita nervous about the pageant at the end of the festival?

5. When a beggar boy asks for alms from Taita, what does Taita give him?

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