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

2. Why is Taita able to build an experimental squadron of chariots?
(a) Lostris is too proud to back down after she gave him the order.
(b) Tanus believes strongly in the military potential of the chariots.
(c) Taita is too stubborn to stop experimenting.
(d) Tanus thinks the chariots are the only way to vanquish the Hyksos.

3. What does Taita see at the end of Pharaoh's horoscope?
(a) A tree eaten by locusts and fallen to earth.
(b) A forest of trees, all bearing the double crown.
(c) A girl baby followed by a boy.
(d) Battles and bloodshed for one hundred years.

4. What happens when the elephants are first injured?
(a) They become furious and destructive.
(b) They soon lose their will to live.
(c) They huddle together to protect each other.
(d) They lose a lot of blood and become weak.

5. When some Egyptians want to leave the caravan ships traveling south, what does Queen Lostris do?
(a) Cuts their tongues out so they can no longer grumble.
(b) Throws them overboard.
(c) Imprisons them in the ships' holds.
(d) Offers to put them ashore for the Hyksos to find and capture.