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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. Who pulls Ranofer aside to ask about the golden goblet?

2. What is at the location where Gebu and Wenamon disappear?

3. What does Ranofer discover about the lock on Gebu's door?

4. What does Ranofer say about the location of the goblet?

5. Why does Ranofer sneak upstairs to Gebu's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of people does Ranofer now have in his life and why might a reader be happy about it?

2. What happens in the night when Ranofer decides to follow Gebu?

3. How does Ranofer know whose tomb he is in and how does he alert Gebu about his presence?

4. Where do Ranofer and Heqet follow Gebu and Wenamon and what do they decide?

5. What does Ranofer see Gebu bring into the scroll room and what is the result of that?

6. What does Ranofer see when he follows Gebu into the valley and what might that tell the reader?

7. What holiday is approaching and what do the three friends decide to do about it?

8. In Chapter 9 how does Ranofer feel when he goes to work? What does Gebu do at his job and what does Ranofer realize when he studies Gebu?

9. Where is the first place Ranofer looks for help? What does he do after that?

10. What are Heqet and the Ancient doing while Ranofer is trying to catch Gebu?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Outside the apprentice's quarters, Ranofer runs into Heqet. Heqet is eating, reminding Ranofer he has little to eat in the past few days. Heqet offers Ranofer a fig and he takes it, despite the pride that makes him want to refuse. At Rekh's shop, Ranofer is embarrassed when Rekh makes a comment about the marks Gebu left on his shoulders during a beating.

1. Ranofer is reluctant to take food from Heqet even though he's hungry. Discuss, in this situation what might be meant by the cliche "false pride."

2. Ranofer is embarrassed about Rekh seeing and remarking on his shoulders. Why do you think he would feel that way since it is not his fault? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss what you think would happen to Ranofer and Gebu if they lived in the United States in the present day. Include in your discussion how you think the problem could be solved.

Essay Topic 2

Ranofer day dreams about finding a great deal of gold hidden away by a person a long time ago. He thinks about all the things he would do with that gold, including paying his fee to become a student to Zau the Master. Zau was once a friend of Ranofer's father and said he would teach Ranofer one day. Ranofer's father was once a great goldsmith and he fully believes that one day he will be too.

1. Why do you think Ranofer daydreams? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Compare Ranofer's day dreaming to people in this society who day dream about winning the lottery.

3. Do you think it is realistic of Ranofer to believe he will be a great goldsmith someday? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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