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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 gift from Nefernefernefer?
(a) He loses it.
(b) He has his name engraved in the stone.
(c) He gives it to his mother.
(d) He returns it to her.

2. What errand does the Pharaoh Ahknaton send Sinuhe on in the name of peace?
(a) To follow Nefretiti.
(b) To talk to Horemheb and get him to stop shedding blood.
(c) To spy on Eie.
(d) To visit his friend Aziru and negotiate a treaty.

3. When Sinuhe turns seven to what event does his mother take him?
(a) The Nile.
(b) The theater.
(c) A sacrifice.
(d) The House of Death.

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

5. What does everyone know about the opening of the pharaoh's skull?
(a) That no pharaoh has ever lived after the opening of the skull.
(b) That the pharaoh will live.
(c) That the pharaoh's brain must be studied.
(d) That is ensures the pharaoh's place in the heavens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes the wife to the new pharaoh?

2. What does Sinuhe insist of King Aziru after he is greeted in the desert?

3. What does Sinuhe read for a stranger in the City of the Dead?

4. When does Minea know that she must return to the land of Crete?

5. What does Sinuhe treat King Aziru for?

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