Egypt Game Quiz

Jose V. & Efrain A.

Chapter 1: The Discovery of Egypt
1. Who owns the Antique store?
- A man called the professor no one knows his real name
2. Where is the store located?
It is located in a large UNIVERSITY TOWN in California in a street
called Orchard Avenue.
3. How do people in the community generally feel about the Professor?
- All the kids and adults have rare image of the professor, people
says that he is very extrange and that he is always on his store.
4. Who first witnesses the Egypt Game?
- The professor was the first witness of the Egypt game.
5. What are the names of the three children the Professor watches through the
window?
The names of the kids are: Aprill Hall ,Melanie Ross and Marshall
Ross
6. What is Marshall carrying with him?
- He is carrying an octopus teddy that he called security, Marshall
always carry him to everyplace.
Chapter 2: Enter April
1. What does April Hall sometimes call herself?
April Dawn
2. What is the name of the building where April comes to live?
La casa rosada, here she starts living with his grandmother.
3. Who is Dorothea?
She is the mother of April Hall, and she sent her daughter with his grandmother,
Caroline
4. Who is Caroline?
Caroline is April grandmother, Caroline and April has a strange relationship, they
just hardly know something
5. What happened to Aprils father?
April father died on a car accident, and some time before April was born, so she
never meet him.
6. Where does Caroline work?
She works at hollywood working as a double and extra on many movies.
7. Who is April supposed to check in with before leaving the building?
8. What does April purchase from the drug store?
She buy a pair of fake eyelashes for her
9. Why is April impressed by the man at A-Z?
10. What does April tell the man she wants to be when she grows up?

Chapter 3: Enter Melanieand Marshall

1. Why is Melanie hopeful as she knocks on Apartment 312?
- because lately there are too few new friends in La Casa Rosada.
2. What is Melanies initial reaction when April opens the door?
- Speechless, she got very surprised
3. Why doesnt April think Melanie will like her?
4. How does April first describe her mothers job to Melanie?
5. What is Melanies favorite occupation?
6. What does Melanie keep hidden in the dull-looking old geography book?
7. How does April react to Melanies secret hobby?
8. What name does Melanie give to the games that the girls play?
Chapter 4: The Egypt Girls
1. Where do Melanie and April go almost every day in August?
- They meet in the library where the find books.
2. How do April and Melanie earn the name the Egypt girls?
- They start making their own hieroglyphic alphabet with the books
they get so people start calling them the Egypt Game
3. Why are April and Melanie worried about the start of school?
- April is worried about the new school and classes, but Melanie is
worried about how her classmates will react about Aprils Hollywood
Attitude
4. What aspect of Aprils appearance most concerns Melanie?
- She doesnt want April to wear her fake eyelashes.
5. What reason does April give Melanie for her feelings about Caroline?
6. What do April, Marshall, and Melanie find in the deserted yard that April
considers a beautiful messenger from out of the ancient past?
- They found a bust of Nefertiti, she was an Egyptian Queen from
14th century B.C
Chapter 5:
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window?
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The Evil God and the Secret Spy

Who does Melanie suggest might be watching them through the
She thinks that the Professor is watching them.
Who do the girls appoint pharaoh?
They call Marshall as the young Pharaoh.
What do they name the pharaoh?
They call the pharaoh Isis.
Why does Marshall agree to play the game?
Because they let him be a pharaoh.
Who is Set?

- Set is the evil god who is the antagonist of the story the kids just
invented.
6.
Where do the girls get the rules for the Egypt game?
7.
What happens unbeknownst to the girls after they throw the
boxes over the fence?
- The curtains and the back window of the Professor store was
pushed to the other side, that meant that the Professor heard all the noise
and was watching.
Chapter 6: Eyelashes and Ceremony
1.
Why is April having trouble concentrating the day before school is to
begin?
April was thinking about how it didnt matter what the kids
thought, because Dorothea will write soon saying she wanted April Home.
2.
Why is Melanie having trouble concentrating?
- She was having trouble concentrating because she doesnt know
what to do.
3.
What does Melanie take from Aprils room? How?
- She gets in Aprils room and takes the fake eyelashes so she cant
wear them to school.
4.
How do the sixth graders at Wilson respond to April?
- The kids make fun of her and dont accept her until Melanie stands
up for her.
5.
What nickname do Toby and Ken give to April? Why is it important?
- They started calling April, February. Melanie thought it wasnt
6.
What do Isis and Nefertiti represent?
- They are like gods who the kids give offerings, just like Egypt.
7.
How are the rituals of the Egypt game recorded?
- At the beginning on a notebook, then Melanie write it on onion skin
paper
8.
What is the Crocodile Stone? What do the girls do with it?
- Is a strange dark stone that Melanie found, they put it on the altar
and that this is the source of seth power.
Chapter 7: Neferbeth
1.
Who moves into Casa Rosada in September? How old is she?
- A new family, their last name is Chungs, and they have one
daughter called Elizabeth, she is nine years old
2.
Who does Elizabeth look like to April and Melanie?
- They said that she look like nefertiti from a statue from the Egypt
game, the only difference was the nose a little bit, the rest it was exactly
the same
3.
Why do April and Melanie ask Elizabeth to join the Egypt game?
- For ask her if she want to play and be Neferbeth, and Egypt queen.

Chapter 8: Prisoners of Fear

1.
How does Elizabeth respond to the Egypt game?
- Pretty good, she was fascinated with everything that they create,
and her favorite thing was the hymn to the Isis that Melanie created.
2.
What name do Melanie and April give to Elizabeth in the game?
- Neferbeth, the name of an Egyptian queen.
3.
What puts a temporary stop to the Egypt game?
-The strange death of a young girl on the neighborhood, so all the parents
from the surroundings banned the kids of going outside, including the Ross
and Chung's family making impossible to play any day.
4.
Who does the community believe is guilty?
- The professor, not only the young kids, also the grown ups think
that he is the responsible because no one knows anything about him
5.
Who organizes the efforts to invite the Professor to leave?
- Mr. Schmitt, he written petitions and letter inviting the professor to
leave.
6.
How do the players continue the Egypt game when they are
confined to the Casa Rosada?
- They start creating and designing some Egyptian costumes, for
example they build up a crown with a bowling game for Marshall.
7.
How do accusations against the Professor affect his business?
- Since the murder, everyone is against him (except Aprill, Melanie,
and Elizabeth), so no one buys anything from the store, is strange to see
someone in there, this accusations makes that he lose all his buyers from
the town or from someone outside the town. Also one day someone break
a window from his store with a brick.
8.
What changes do the players notice in Egypt when they stop by
briefly?
- They see everything almost equal, the only difference is that a
statute is a little bit move.
Chapter 9: Summoned by the Mighty Ones
1.
Under what circumstances are the kids in the neighborhood allowed
to trick-or-treat?
- The only way they can go to trick-or-treat is in big groups of kids
and only they can go if they go with the volunteer parents, if not, they
cant even go outside on Halloween night.
2.
What is Aprils plan for revisiting Egypt?
- When they pass near to the yard, they will go with flashlights, and
check if everything is ok and then return before they get lost.
3.
What costumes do April, Elizabeth, Melanie, and Marshall wear for
Halloween?
- Egyptians costumes, with cleopatra style hair, and with big crowns.

4.
What token does April claim Set and Isis have sent to the players as
a summons?
- An old pigeon feather.
5.
What are the players watching for as they trick-or-treat?
Chapter 10: The Return to Egypt
1.
Who do the girls run into while trick-or-treating?
2.
Describe Ken and Tobys costumes.
3.
What does the Egypt gang claim to be the secret omen?
Chapter 11: Egypt Invaded
1.
What does April declare the Crocodile God demands for sacrifice?
- They said he demands a horrible and bloody sacrifice, first she
said the must give security, but Marschall start to screaming saying it was
a bad idea. At the end they they burn some of their hair and fingernails, in
representation of a whole finger sacrifice.
2.
What does Marshall mumble under his breath after April tells him not to
yell?
3.
What do the players decide to use for sacrifices?
- They take some of their hair and fingernails, and they burn it on the
altar.
4.
What happens at the end of the Ceremony of Sacrifice?
- a strange figure enter to Egypt, and then he jump and he was right
on the middle of the yard, the 4 kids were horrified.
Chapter 12: Elizabethan Diplomacy
1.
Who enters Egypt uninvited?
- Toby and Ken, they enter by the fence
2.
Why does Elizabeth invite the boys to join their game?
- For avoiding they tell the secret of Egypt to someone else.
3.
Who does Melanie credit with saving the Egypt game after outsiders
discover the games existence?
- Elizabeth, she was the one who invite the two kids as the last effort
of saving Egypt.
4.
Why does Mellanie think that Elizabeths method is successful?
- Because it was non-violence Melanie mom says that it's
appealing to their better natures.

Chapter 13: Moods and Maybes

1.
Why do Melanies parents argue about the kids playing outside?
- They keep saying is dangerous because the murder, but that it is ok
if they go and play in groups.

2.

Why is April in a bad mood?

- April gets nervous and depressed when she got a letter from her
mother Dorothea, telling that she married her manager called Nick. She
says that there is no room for April, and plans to send April's remaining
things to her new house.
3.
What kind of list does Toby ask the girls to make? What does he
plan to do with it?
- He asked about the best books about Egypt, and that he was going
to the library and take some.
Chapter 14: Hieroglyphics
1.
What do Toby and Ken bring to Egypt?
- Rubber things, spiders, snakes, a real skull, a dead tarantula, and a
stuffed owl.
2.
Who is Thoth?
- They call this way the owl that Toby and Kent just bring, They call
him this way in honor of the good of wisdom.
3.
Why does Toby think they should finish the alphabet of
hieroglyphics?
- For talking about the Egypt game in middle of school, and this no
one will never understand the messages.
4.
What do the players want to purchase with the money they earn?
- They buy some pens for writing the messages in the school.
5.
List the players Egyptian names and hieroglyphic symbols.
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April is Bastet, named like a feline goddess. Her symbol is a cat

head.
- Elizabeth is Nefertiti, named like a queen. Her symbol is a heart
- Melanie is Aida, namedlike the main character in Verdi's opera, a
princess captive in Egypt. Her symbol is a bird
- Marshall is Pharaoh Marshamosis. His symbol is the double crown of
Egypt.
- Toby is Ramsoe, named like a famous wise man. His symbol is an
owl head
- Ken is Horemheb, named lika a pharaoh and commander. His
symbol is a bloody sword
6.

Who is Petey?
- Is the parakeet of the Chungs family, she suddenly die when a cat
enter to the apartment and kill her.

Chapter 15: The Ceremony for the Dead

1.
What happens to Prince Pete-ho-tep?

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6.

- They invent the history that he died fighting in a battle with a

terrible monster.
How are the high priests of Anubis chosen for the ceremony?
- They make Aida (melanie) choose, so she took a pebble and let
them choose, at the end Ken and Toby wins, making them the high priests
of the god of death.
How long does Toby think the mummification ceremony might take?
- He says that on the ancient Egypt they spend like 40 days, but that
they will just spend 5 or 6 days.
Who is the chief mourner?
Why do the players become less cautious?
What knowledge does one very small Egyptian keep to himself?
- Marshall, who knows that someone is secretly watching. He's

not going to tell the other kids about it yet, though.

Chapter 16: The Oracle of Thoth
1.
What gets the players interested in the topic of oracles?
- After Mrs. Granger, the sixth-grade teacher at Wilson School mentions

something about an oracle, Toby gets interested and asks her to explain
more.
2.
3.

Who comes up with the idea of using Thoth as the oracle?

Ken, then of telling them the oracle idea.
Who asks the first question?

They draw straws, and Ken wins the right to ask the oracle a question
first. He writes it on a paper, and after Toby performs a very impressive
ceremony for the oracle, he leaves it in the beak of the owl. The Egyptians
leave the yard at once so that no one can sneak a look at the question.
4.

Why does Ken think the rest of the players are crazy?
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Chapter 17: The Oracle Speaks

1.
Who performs the ceremony of Returning to the Oracle for the
Answer?
- April takes up the role of the High Priestess of the Oracle, and after an

elaborate ceremony, she removes the slip of paper from the stuffed owl's beak
and reads it.
2.

What does Ken ask the oracle?

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3.

About whether he'll be a big league star someday

Who do the Egyptians argue about the oracles answer?

The kids start fighting because they think some wrote it, so
Melanie says that they better write another message to the oracle
to see if this happens again. This time, Aprill writes the message.
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Chapter 18: Where is Security?

1. What does Marshall leave in Egypt?

Marshall notices that he lost Security, and he says that he leave him on Egypt.
2. What does April ask the oracle?
She ask when will she go home again.
3. How do the Egyptians react to the oracles answer?
- Everyone gets angry, and start saying that they better stop the
game.
4. What does Marshall ask the oracle?
- What happen with security and where we can find him
5. Who is most worried about Marshalls question to the oracle?
- Toby
Chapter 19: Confession and Confusion
1.
Why does Toby call April at home?
- To tell them that they need to meet the next day and talk about
something important
2.
Why does Toby fake injury?
- He did that for avoiding any kind of suspects from anyone, this way
no one will ask we he isnt playing.
3.
What does Toby confess to April and Melanie?
- He confesses to them that he was the one writing the Oracle
answers
4.
How does the oracle answer Marshalls questions?
- He responded with Look under the throne of Set. Security is
there.
5.
Why was everyone surprised by the oracles response to Marshalls
question?
- They got impressed because Toby didnt write that and they didn't
know who wrote it

Chapter 20: Fear Strikes

1.
Who wants to ask the oracle another question?
2.
Why are Marshall and April alone in the Rosss apartment?
- They are alone because Mr. & Mrs. Ross go to a concert and take
Melanie with them so April takes care of the child.
3.
Why do Marshall and April go to Egypt alone?
- To look for Aprils math book for homework
4.
What happens to April after she climbs through the board in the fence?
- Someone grabs april from behind while she tries to go to the yard.
5.
What does April wonder about Marshalls behavior as she is being
attacked?
- Probably that he was in shock or something similar.
6.
Who finally calls for help?
- Somebody is crying for help so people come to rescue them.

7.
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What happens to Aprils attacker?

We escapes when help arrives, no one knows how attacked her.

Chapter 21: The Hero

1.
Where do Marshall and April go after leaving Egypt?
- They take them to the police station then of all what just happened
2.
Who is Inspector Grant?
- the inspector from the police station he ask Marshall about the
attack
3.
How does Marshall describe the man who grabs April?
- He described him like a big orange men, also he says that he had
seen him before. They identify him as Mr. Schmitt's cousin
4.
Who does Marshall identify as the man who called for help?
- The professor, Marshall says he was the one that went for help
5.
What does April call Caroline for the first time?
- She calls Carolin grandma for the first time.
6.
Who is the man who commits the crimes?
- The man that commits the crime is Mr. Schmitts cousin
7.
How does Marshalls participation in the capture change his
behavior?
- He take everything very calm, he didn't change his personality or
something, the only thing that changed is that he start to leaving security
at home sometimes.
Chapter 22: Gains and Losses
1.
What happens to the land of Egypt after April is attacked?
- They cant go because the yard was boarded.
2.
What is the Professors real name?
- Dr. Huddlestone
3.
Who begins working at the Professors store?
- Elizabeths mom
4.
What objects does the Professor show to April?
- Some ancient Egyptians objects that he has in the shop.
5.
To whom did the items the Professor showed to April once belong?
6.
How does April respond to Dorotheas letter?
She says that she is really grateful for the invitation but she
already has plans with her grandma and prefers to stay where she is.
Chapter 23: Christmas Keys
1.
Who asks to see the Egypt gang on Christmas Eve?
- The Professor wants to see the six Egyptians for Christmas Eve.
2.
What reason does the Professor give for wanting to meet with the
group?

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7.

8.

- He wants to talk to all the members of the group and starts telling
them the story of how he fell in love with his wife.
What is the Professors former profession?
- He was a professor teaching anthropology.
How did A-Z store get started?
What information does the Professor give about the oracle?
- He was the one who wrote the oracle of where was Security.
What does the Professor give each member of the Egypt gang?
- He pulls out of his pocket some keys, the keys have the name of
the kids in each of them, he gives them to the kids. The keys were for
Egypt.
Why does April feel sad after the children receive their keys?
- She feels sad because she feels it wont be the same after all that
happened.
What question does April pose to Melanie at the end of the novel?
- She asks Melanie what she knows of the gypsies and at the end a
new game comes ending the novel.