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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 405-444.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Near the end of the wedding feast, what does Taita discover about Pharaoh's personality?
(a) He is a kind man.
(b) He is incapable of loving anyone other than himself.
(c) He is a heartless man.
(d) He is a lewd man.

2. When a beggar boy asks for alms from Taita, what does Taita give him?
(a) A date fruit that changes to two date fruits.
(b) A date fruit that changes to a scorpion.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A date fruit that changes to a stone.

3. How does the cobra get into Taita's room to attack him?
(a) In a basket of pomegranates and mangoes.
(b) One of the slave boys brought it in.
(c) Rasfer brought it in secretly.
(d) Through a crack in the east wall.

4. 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 allowed to eat hippopotamus only then, during the feast of Osiris.
(c) They want to welcome Lostris back home.
(d) They are concerned for the safety of the sailors.

5. Just past the fourth cataract, what do the Egyptians encounter for the first time in their lives?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Snow.
(c) Trees.
(d) Rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what crime does Pharaoh find Tanus guilty?

2. How does Lostris treat the common people in the city?

3. What is the name of the place where the two rivers meet?

4. As he lies dying, what are the last words that Pharaoh speaks?

5. Pharaoh's palace is in the southernmost part of Egypt. What reason do some people give for this?

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