Reading Assessment Questions:
Chapter 1 --
1. Tepi had been taught something about her future life. What was it?
2. Where does Tepi live?
Describe the city.
3. What were the two capitals of the ‘Two Lands’?
2. What happened in the distant past at the Temple dedicated to the goddess Hathor?
3. Who brought the war chariot to Egypt?
4. How many provinces were there in Upper Egypt?
2. What does Tepi decide to do when she finds out the prince is gone?
3. Which direction will Tepi travel? Why?
2. What is a sarcophogus?
3. What danger did Tepi face when she crossed the river?
4. How were the fields of green divided?
5. How were the fields watered?
2. What is flax used for?
3. Whose territory is Tepi in now?
2. Why didn’t Sethi, the camel boy, want to search the old tombs for Tepi’s brother?
2. Why were they placed in the tomb?
3. When Tepi sees unfamiliar funerary equipment, what conclusion does she reach?
4. How do Tepi and Sethi enter the small dark room where Nekhi is hidden?
2. Who is Sobek?
3. Why do Tepi and Nekhi decide they’ll go out of the palace more often?
2. Which part of Akhet shines?
2. Where does Nekhi go to help?
3. Where does Tepi go to help?
2. Who was banished from the palace? Why?
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The Vanishing Prince, by Jane Richards
Reading Assessment Questions created by Teacher P.J. Wigowsky
October 23, 2000
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