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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. Why is Ranofer embarrassed by Rekh?

2. What does Gebu have Wenamon do to Ibni?

3. What does Ranofer dream about?

4. What does Ranofer think he has a plan to do?

5. What does the foreman do if Ranofer looks idle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Ranofer offer advice to and why? Who overhears him?

3. What does Ranofer believe made noises in the night? How does he respond to his belief?

4. How does Ranofer feel about his thoughts on Ibni and Gebu by the end of the day? What does he want to do and why does he not want to do it?

5. What does Ranofer become aware of about a week after his new job? What does he think of it?

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

7. How does Ranofer run into Heqet and what does Heqet suggest?

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

9. What does Gebu tell Ranofer when he comes home from work the day Ibni is not there? What is Ranofer's response?

10. How does Ranofer feel after his first day on his new job and what is his boss like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ranofer knows that Gebu is stealing again because he can see the evidence in the new things Gebu has bought and the money he often gives to Ranofer. Ranofer talks about this with his friends and they decide to begin spying on Gebu and his friends.

1. What might be inferred from Ranofer's society from the fact that Ranofer thinks Gebu is stealing because he has new items and gives Ranofer money even though Gebu is a self employed stone cutter? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. How likely do you think it is that Ranofer as a young boy would notice and infer so much from so little? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think Ranofer's friends would decide to spy on his brother and his brother's friends? What would they gain by doing this?

Essay Topic 2

Gebu forces Ranofer to quit Rekh's shop and go to work in his stone-cutter shop as an apprentice. Ranofer reports to the stone-cutter shop where he begins by putting cutting sand in holes another worker is drilling. The work is boring and uses muscles that Ranofer has never had to use before. By the end of the day, Ranofer is very tired, but too sore to sleep.

1. Why do you think Gebu decided to make Ranofer work in his shop? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think the job seems boring to Ranofer? Would that job be boring to anyone? What could Ranofer do, in your opinion, to make the job less boring?

3. Discuss why Ranofer, even being young and in shape might be sore from doing a different type of job. Include in your discussion whether you believe Ranofer's state of mind could aggravate the way that his body feels.

Essay Topic 3

Ranofer and Heqet argue when Heqet tries to get Ranofer to take some of his food. They are joined by the Ancient, who convinces Ranofer that taking Heqet's food would be doing him a favor. The boys then share their stories with the Ancient and include him in their growing circle of friendship.

1. Why do you think Ranofer argues with Heqet? Why do you think Heqet is insisting on his actions? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think the Ancient believes Ranofer is doing Heqet a favor by taking some of his food?

3. What do you think, given the era in which this novel takes place, is meant by sharing stories? How important do you think sharing stories might be in a more primative era?

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