2. When Tanus accuses Lord Intef of being the chief of the Shrikes, what is Lord Intef's reaction?
(a) He stands silent.
(b) He begins denying everything vigorously.
(c) He laughs.
(d) He runs through the small sacristy door.

3. Where does the Shepherd King shoot his first arrow as the battle begins?
(a) Toward Tanus.
(b) Into Taita's leg.
(c) Into Pharaoh's throne.
(d) Randomly into the Egyptian troops.

4. When do the Egyptians begin to flee toward their ships away from the Hyksos?
(a) When Tanus calls them to retreat.
(b) When the men in front begin stampeding toward the back.
(c) When Pharaoh is hit with an arrow.
(d) When the battle changes to a massacre.

5. What idea of Tanus's is shot down in the military council?
(a) Finding out more about the enemy from the east before engaging in battle.
(b) Leaving the women and children by the Nile and traveling east to meet the enemy.
(c) Traveling to the northern border to meet them head-on.
(d) Waiting for them in Thebes and gathering greater forces.

6. How does Pharaoh react to the accusations of Lord Intef's guilt?
(a) He forgives Lord Intef after only a few moments.
(b) He gives Lord Intef one year to prove himself innocent.
(c) He condemns Lord Intef immediately.
(d) He wavers, wanting the accusations to be false.

7. Why are Lord Nembet and most of his men killed by the Hyksos?
(a) Lord Nembet laughed at Tanus's warning letter.
(b) The men were sailors not warriors.
(c) Lord Nembet had not trained them well.
(d) The men were poor archers.

8. Why is Taita filled with terror when he sees the dust cloud of the approaching enemy?
(a) He is afraid for the coming battle.
(b) The picture matches his vision of destruction that would come to Egypt.
(c) He does not understand what could cause the dust cloud.
(d) He does not have time to warn Tanus before the enemy arrives.

9. When Taita works the Mazes of Ammon-Ra to receive guidance about the Hyksos problem, how does his vision begin?
(a) With the goddess Hapi.
(b) With the sound of thunder.
(c) With a long green snake.
(d) With a forest of crowned trees.

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

11. Why are the Egyptians easily able to capture the Shilluk village in Cush?
(a) The people are not hunters and thus not prepared to defend themselves.
(b) The village is small and insignificant.
(c) The people had been betrayed by their chief.
(d) The men are out on the plain hunting oryx.

12. How are the Hyksos a backward people, according to Taita?
(a) Their women are treated like slaves.
(b) They cannot read or write.
(c) Their means of warfare are primitive.
(d) They serve savage gods.

13. What does Taita name the gnu illness?
(a) The Yellow Strangler.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) The Red Death.
(d) The Black Strangler.

14. What dream does Taita have to explain Lostris's pregnancy?
(a) Lostris has generative powers to conceive a child without a man.
(b) The goddess Hapi approved of Tanus and Lostris's union.
(c) The child was conceived before Pharaoh's death but did not grow until now.
(d) Pharaoh came back from paradise and slept with her at night.

15. How does Arkoun die?
(a) He falls off the castle bridge, a thousand feet down.
(b) Taita cuts off his head.
(c) He receives a deep arrow wound in his chest.
(d) Tanus fatally stabs him.