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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Arkoun's castle?
(a) On a vast plain.
(b) On the foothills of a mountain.
(c) On a wind-swept mountain.
(d) On the banks of the Nile.

2. 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) Traveling to the northern border to meet them head-on.
(c) Leaving the women and children by the Nile and traveling east to meet the enemy.
(d) Waiting for them in Thebes and gathering greater forces.

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

4. How does Lostris ensure that Tanus is a part of her son's life?
(a) By hiring him as one of the royal tutors.
(b) By ordering him to report directly to her.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) By sending her son to live with him.

5. What is the name of the place where the two rivers meet?
(a) Tehuti.
(b) Bathsheba.
(c) Qebui.
(d) Cush.

6. At the beginning of the long voyage south, what is Memnon's favorite toy?
(a) His bow and arrows.
(b) His colt.
(c) His building blocks.
(d) Taita's unused scrolls.

7. How does the goddess Hapi answer the travelers' prayers at the beginning of their voyage?
(a) The Nile floods several weeks early.
(b) They do not lose any ships in the first cataract.
(c) The Hyksos do not attack them again.
(d) The Nile floods several weeks late.

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

9. How do Hui and Taita capture the runaway Hyksos horses?
(a) The men lasso them.
(b) Taita sings to them.
(c) The men herd them toward the Nile so that they are trapped.
(d) The men lure them with fresh barley.

10. How old is Prince Memnon when a messenger brings news of the fall of the Lower Kingdom?
(a) Five months old.
(b) One month old.
(c) Twenty-one years old.
(d) Five years old.

11. How are the Shrike barons and Rasfer executed?
(a) Starved to death in their prison cells.
(b) Thrown to the crocodiles.
(c) Shot by a crew of archers.
(d) Nailed upside-down to the city gates.

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

13. Why does Queen Lostris establish a stone monument just past the first cataract?
(a) To commemorate the work of the five men who brought the ships through.
(b) To honor the army, particularly its leader Tanus.
(c) To honor her dead husband.
(d) As a vow to her people that she would return.

14. Why does Taita wait with Tanus's body the full forty days of embalming?
(a) He is also preparing Tanus's tomb to receive his body.
(b) He wants to ensure the embalming is done properly.
(c) He is afraid to face the queen's grief.
(d) Memnon wants him to ensure the body is safely transported.

15. Following the battle with the Hyksos, what did Tanus do that caused him great grief?
(a) Said goodbye to the dying Pharaoh for the last time.
(b) Burned half his ships because he no longer had men to pilot them.
(c) Said goodbye to Lostris for the next three months.
(d) Burned the bodies of five thousand faithful soldiers who were killed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What moment does Taita mark as the turning point in Egypt's history away from despair?

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

3. How does Lord Intef escape his execution with the Shrike barons?

4. What does Taita do before he tells Pharaoh that Lostris is pregnant again?

5. Where does the Shepherd King shoot his first arrow as the battle begins?

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