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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 12, The Water Clock Measures Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days does Sinuhe serve in the House of Death?
(a) 5.
(b) 70.
(c) 2.
(d) 30.

2. How has Aziru's seven-year-old son shown that he will be a great warrior?
(a) He practices his weapon skills daily.
(b) He can sword fight with grown men.
(c) He has already slit the belly of a slave who insulted him and has gone into battle with his father,
(d) He killed a man who attacked him.

3. What does Sinuhe do on a return to Thebes to show that he is equal to the rowers?
(a) He shares his gold.
(b) He refuses to beat them with a whip.
(c) He rows the boat with the rowers for several days.
(d) He cooks for them.

4. What do they dress Minea in just before she enters the copper gates?
(a) In colorful robes with her hair piles high on her head.
(b) In a long white dress with a small hat on her head.
(c) In a simple robe with her hair in a silver net.
(d) She is nude.

5. Where does Sinuhe bury his parents?
(a) In the desert.
(b) In a pauper's cemetary.
(c) Near the entrance of a royal tomb.
(d) Near the temple of Ammon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing that Sinuhe cannot give away in his negotiations with King Aziru?

2. What is the custom of marriage in Egypt?

3. What does the Syrian merchant bring Nefernefernefer?

4. What do the bathrooms have in Crete?

5. What does Sinuhe find odd about the city of Crete?

(see the answer key)

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