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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ranofer dream about?

2. What does Ranofer refuse to do that night as he leaves the shop?

3. At the end of the first lunch, how do the boys view the new person?

4. Why does Ranofer go home slowly after work?

5. What does Heqet tell Rekh about in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. About eight days after Ranofer talked to Heqet what does he see on the way home?

2. What does Gebu ask Ranofer and how does he respond? What does Gebu tell Ranofer?

3. Who does Ranofer meet on his way home from work? Where does this person live and what does he do?

4. In Chapter 6, where does Ranofer report for work, what does he do at work, and how does it affect him?

5. Who does Ranofer see on the way to work and what happens when they talk?

6. What does Ranofer learn that makes him think about Ibni's request?

7. What does Ranofer decide is the only way to get away from Gebu and what does he want to do when he does?

8. How does Ranofer return home after work and why? Where does he go on the way?

9. What does Rekh ask Ranofer to show him and then what does he tell him to do? How does Ranofer feel about this?

10. Why does the Ancient keep Ranofer from watching a punishment? Do you think the Ancient was right?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The more Ranofer thinks about it, though, the more he realizes that a tomb is the only place Gebu could have gotten a goblet such as the one he has. Ranofer is frightened because he knows the punishment is death, but he also knows that Gebu must be punished. This is a moral dilemma that Ranofer must handle alone because he does not want to cause trouble for his friends.

1. Why do you think Ranofer believes Gebu is stealing from tombs because of the goblet? Where else might Gebu have gotten the goblet?

2. Why do you think Ranofer is frightened because of the punishment for tomb robbing? Do you think he is concerned his half brother could be hung? Why or why not?

3. Discuss why Ranofer's decision is a moral dilemma? How could his friends get in trouble based on his decision?

Essay Topic 2

Ranofer begins avoiding his friends because he feels he cannot tell them about the goblet. However, Heqet finds him and convinces him to return.

1. Discuss why do you think Ranofer avoids his friends just because he thinks he cannot tell them about the goblet?

2. Discuss why you think Ranofer feels he cannot tell his friends about the goblet.

3. Explain in detail what you could infer about Heqet's character that he would find Ranofer and pull him back into friendship.

Essay Topic 3

Ranofer wakes, convinced that noises he heard in the night were the sounds of his father's spirit come to guide him. Ranofer gathers the small breakfast Gebu has left for him and visits his father's tomb, leaving half the meal as a gift.

1. Do you think it is possible Ranofer's dead father's spirit visited him? Why or why not.

2. Discuss why the fact that people in Ranofer's culture believed in life after death encourage the type of thinking Ranofer is doing about his father's spirit?

3. Given that Ranofer is a growing boy and needs all of his food, discuss the pros and cons of Ranofer leaving his breakfast at his father's tombs. Include in your discussion your own opinion of his action.

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