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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. What does Sinuhe do with the scarab that he finds?
(a) He gives it to the stranger.
(b) He gives it to Nefernefernefer.
(c) He gives it to Kaptah as a god.
(d) He leaves it on his mother's grave.

2. What, according to the prince, Amenhotep, is an abomination to Aton?
(a) Taxes.
(b) Blood.
(c) The Nile.
(d) His son.

3. 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 killed a man who attacked him.
(c) He has already slit the belly of a slave who insulted him and has gone into battle with his father,
(d) He can sword fight with grown men.

4. In the land of the Hittites, how are the people ruled?
(a) By princes whose power over them is absolute.
(b) By the pharaoh from Egypt.
(c) By kings in each small region.
(d) They are self-governed.

5. What is the one thing that Sinuhe cannot give away in his negotiations with King Aziru?
(a) Gaza.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Mitanni.
(d) Kem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of houses do the people of Babylon live in?

2. Why does Sinuhe take no money for his slave girl Keftiu?

3. What does Phator do to cure the young slave with the splinter in his brain?

4. How does Sinuhe get to the City of the Dead when he has no money?

5. What does Thothmes ask his students to do as they learn?

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