The Egypt Game

Comprehension Questions
Chapter 1: The Discovery of Egypt
1.Who owns the Antique store?
The owner of the Antique store is Mr. Professor
2. Where is the store located?
The store is located in California.
3. How do people in the community generally feel about the Professor?
The people in the community feels worry about the professor.
4. Who first witnesses the Egypt Game?
The first witnesses of the Egypt game is Mr. Professor.
5.What are the names of the three children the Professor watches through the window?
The name of the 3 children the Professor watches are: Marshall, Diana and April.
6. What is Marshall carrying with him?
Marshall is caring with him a security package.
Chapter 2: Enter April
1.What does April Hall sometimes call herself?
April sometimes call herself April Dawn.
2.What is the name of the building where April comes to live?
The name of the place were April is living is called Casa Rosada.
3.Who is Dorothea?
Dorothea is Aprils mother
4.Who is Caroline?
Caroline is Aprils grandmother
5. What happened to Aprils father?
He die in an accident before she could know him
6. Where does Caroline work?
At the library in the university
7.Who is April supposed to check in with before leaving the building?
Reporting to Mrs. Ross she paused long enough to decide that reporting wouldnt be possible until
that afternoon
8.What does April purchase from the drug store?
She got out the false eyelashes
9.Why is April impressed by the man at A-Z?
April was impressed because it was a man with very estrange beard that know all about the
things in his store.
10. What does April tell the man she wants to be when she grows up?
She plans to be an archaeologist
Chapter 3: Enter Melanieand Marshall
1.Why is Melanie hopeful as she knocks on Apartment 312?
She has hopes because Melanie and April are the same age and Melanie wants to
have a friend
2.What is Melanies initial reaction when April opens the door?
The initial reaction of Melanie is impress and in shock because April has her hair stacked

up in a pile on her head; she has an ostentatious "fur thing" wrapped around her
shoulders, and is wearing clumsily-attached pair of ludicrous false eyelashes.
3. Why doesnt April think Melanie will like her?
Because April has difficulties to make friends because they dont like her.
4.How does April first describe her mothers job to Melanie?
April responds dismissively that she will only be staying a short while, just
until her mother, who is traveling with a band right now, is finished with her
tour. Melanie recognizes that April is "showboating," but concludes that she
is acting that way because she is homesick.
5.What is Melanies favorite occupation?
Melanies favorite occupation is reading.
6.What does Melanie keep hidden in the dull-looking old geography book?
She founds some paper dolls with which Melanie plays with.
7.How does April react to Melanies secret hobby?
April, however, is charmed with the idea and the two girls spend the rest of
the afternoon concocting exciting escapades for the paper doll "families."
8. What name does Melanie give to the games that the girls play?
The name they give to its game its "imagining games.
Chapter 4: The Egypt Girls
1.Where do Melanie and April go almost every day in August?
They went to the library.
2.How do April and Melanie earn the name the Egypt girls?
They learn how to name her selfs the Egypt Girls by a book about the Egypt tradition
and the ancient intrigue and also they had developed a way to text secret message
with hieroglyphics.
3.Why are April and Melanie worried about the start of school?
Because Melanie is worried that the kids in their new school dont accept April.
4.What aspect of Aprils appearance most concerns Melanie?
The aspect that most worry Melanie about April is Aprils 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?
Because they find a picture of her lovely sculptured head of Nefertiti.
Chapter 5: The Evil God and the Secret Spy
1. Who does Melanie suggest might be watching them through the window?
Melanie thinks that the Professor might be watching them.
2. Who do the girls appoint pharaoh?
They appoint the young pharaoh to Marshall.
3. What do they name the pharaoh?
They name it Marshamosis.
4. Why does Marshall agree to play the game?
Because he is a king that can make everything she wants.
5. Who is Set?
Set is the king of evil.
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?
It happens that the curtain opens from the small of the dirty window and only
Marshall notice.
Chapter 6: Eyelashes and Ceremony
1. Why is April having trouble concentrating the day before school is to begin?
Because she is trying to convince her self that she hasnt to like the kids
because its mom is going to send a letter to take her out of that school.
2. Why is Melanie having trouble concentrating?
Because she is worry that the school kids doesnt like April.
3. What does Melanie take from Aprils room? How?
Melanie takes the eyelashes from Aprils room just by brushing out its hand by
the the eyelashes.
4. How do the sixth graders at Wilson respond to April?
April always offers unique and fascinating answers in class, and she is fearless
on the playground's climbing bars, and always willing to engineer harmless but
mischievous pranks on the grown-ups.
5. What nickname do Toby and Ken give to April? Why is it important?
The nickname that ken and Toby gave to April is February because they dont
do that with the non-popular kids at school.
6. What do Isis and Nefertiti represent?
They represent love, the beautiful and all kind of perfection
7. How are the rituals of the Egypt game recorded?
The rituals were recorded on the onion papers with beautiful handwriting and
rolled with glue into to pices of pole so it could be rolled and unrolled like a
papyris scroll.
8. What is the Crocodile Stone? What do the girls do with it?
The crocodile stone is a strange dark stone. It was lying in the middle of a side
walk just in the right angle it looked exactly like a pair of long pointed jaws with a
bulging snout and jagged teeth. They put it on the altar from then on it became
the mysterious and powerful source of much of Sets power.
Chapter 7: Neferbeth
1. Who moves into Casa Rosada in September? How old is she?
Elizabeth moves to casa Rosada in September, she is 9 years old.
2. Who does Elizabeth look like to April and Melanie?
Elizabeth looks like Nefertiti to April and Melanie.
3. Why do April and Melanie ask Elizabeth to join the Egypt game?
Because She also has a winsome smile that makes her seem like an "enchanted
ivory princess." Elizabeth's "gentle friendly shyness... makes other people feel
important"
Chapter 8: Prisoners of Fear
1. How does Elizabeth respond to the Egypt game?
Elizabeth responds in a very good way making the game more fun.
2. What name do Melanie and April give to Elizabeth in the game?
The name they gave to Elizabeth is Neferbeth.
3. What puts a temporary stop to the Egypt game?
The murder of a young kid.
4. Who does the community believe is guilty?

The community thinks that Mr. Professor is guilty.

5. Who organizes the efforts to invite the Professor to leave?
Mr. Schmitt organize the efforts to invite the Professor to leave
6. How do the players continue the Egypt game when they are confined to the
Casa Rosada?
They continue the in the confined casa Rosada, but the girls think that is not the
same thing to play inside than outside.
7. How do accusations against the Professor affect his business?
The accusations against the Professor affect its business by making him sell
all things in his store in lower price.
8. What changes do the players notice in Egypt when they stop by briefly?
The changes they notice is that it isnt the same to play inside the casa Rosada
than in the backyard and also that the things keep being equal but the flowers
in Nefertitis altar are more fresh than the normal.
Chapter 9: Summoned by the Mighty Ones
1. Under what circumstances are the kids in the neighborhood allowed to trick-ortreat?
They are allowed to do the trick-or-treat by to moms that with the help of its
husbands they take the kids around the neighborhood in groups of 25 kids.
2. What is Aprils plan for revisiting Egypt?
Aprils plan is to keep together and then go to the Egypt to play a little bit and
she notice that like there are a lot of kids just for 2 adults they arent going to
take care of all so April thoughts that if they keep together they could escape
and go to play the Egypt game.
3. What costumes do April, Elizabeth, Melanie, and Marshall wear for Halloween?
They are all wearing costume of the Egypt specially April that is makeup of
Cleopatra.
4. What token does April claim Set and Isis have sent to the players as a
summons?
With the Egyptians gathered together, April falls into character, closing her eyes
and whispering dramatically, "We are summoned by the mighty ones, the mighty
ones of Egypt." The others follow suit, chanting the words after her and falling to
their knees. April produces a single shiny feather which she has found on her
windowsill. Although Marshall observes that it is "nothing but an old pigeon
feather," April insists that it is a sign from the gods that the children are being
called back to Egypt.
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?
The girls run into ken and Toby.
2. Describe Ken and Tobys costumes.
Ken is dressed up as a monster, in an old overcoat over a "pillow-padded
hunchback," and Toby, whose father is a conceptual artist, is costumed
originally as a "walking pile of boxes.
3. What does the Egypt gang claim to be the secret omen?
As they pause for a minute, wondering briefly what to do next, a shooting star
appears overhead. April immediately identifies it as a secret omen, reiterating
their summons to return to Egypt.

Chapter 11: Egypt Invaded

1. What does April declare the Crocodile God demands for sacrifice?
The crocodile god demands a bloody and horrible sacrifice.
2. What does Marshall mumble under his breath after April tells him not to yell?
The gods dont want security (Marshals toy) if he stops yelling.
3. What do the players decide to use for sacrifices?
she suggests that parts of themselves, in the form of hairs and bitten-off
fingernails, be used as the sacrifice.
4. What happens at the end of the Ceremony of Sacrifice?
Elizabeth watch a misshapen figure stand at the middle of Egypt and she yells
scared.
Chapter 12: Elizabethan Diplomacy
1. Who enters Egypt uninvited?
Ken & toby enters uninvited to Egypt and start to laugh about their game.
2. Why does Elizabeth invite the boys to join their game?
Because they might tell someone about their secret game.
3. Who does Melanie credit with saving the Egypt game after outsiders discover
the games existence?
Melanie credits Toby & Ken to save their game by not telling anyone about
making them an oath.
4. Why does Melanie think that Elizabeths method is successful?
Because it result successful thanks to the oath that everyone makes.
Chapter 13: Moods and Maybes
1. Why do Melanies parents argue about the kids playing outside?
Because Melanies father said that is not fare to not letting them play outside.
2. Why is April in a bad mood?
Because its mother had sent her a letter with all of his things after she got
married and making April stay with its grandmother the rest of the year.
3. What kind of list does Toby ask the girls to make? What does he plan to do
with it?
The list Toby ask the girls is to make it about their Egypt game and also about
all the things that occurs right there. Toby plans to use it to have the
information and give it to Ken and so they know all about the game.
Chapter 14: Hieroglyphics
1. What do Toby and Ken bring to Egypt?
Toby & Ken bring different things like: the motley assortment are lifelike rubber
spiders and bugs, a dead tarantula, and a large, beat-up, stuffed owl. The
children name this latter creature Thoth, after the Egyptian "bird-headed god
of wisdom and writing."
2. Who is Thoth?
Thoth is a teddy owl that Ken & Toby brought to sets altar, the children name
this latter creature Thoth, after the Egyptian "bird-headed god of wisdom and
writing."
3. Why does Toby think they should finish the alphabet of hieroglyphics?
Because with that they could write secret message between each other.
4. What do the players want to purchase with the money they earn?
They want to purchase some color pencils to finish the hieroglyphics alphabet.

5. List the players Egyptian names and hieroglyphic symbols.

Marshamosis=Marshall
Neferbeth=Elizabeth
Aida=Melanie
Baset=April
Ramose=Toby
Horemheb=Ken
6. Who is Petey?
Petey is Elizabeths pet.
Chapter 15: The Ceremony for the Dead
1. What happens to Prince Pete-ho-tep?
He dies on a battle.
2. How are the high priests of Anubis chosen for the ceremony?
Marshall leads the way, carrying a smoking incense burner, followed by
Elizabeth, the Chief Mourner. April and Melanie represent the "mourning
populace," and they proceed, chanting and scattering flowers salvaged from
the trash bin behind the local florist shop. Bringing up the rear are the two high
priests, Ken and Toby, carrying the bier of the dead prince.
3. How long does Toby think the mummification ceremony might take?
The first thing Toby did as high priest was to announce that the whole thing
was going to take a long time. In real Egyptian times, he said, the preparation
of the dead and the funeral ceremony took as much as forty days. Theirs
wouldnt take that long, but maybe it would last as much as five or six.
4. Who is the chief mourner?
The chief mourner is Elizabeth.
5. Why do the players become less cautious?
As the children become more comfortable in the land of Egypt, they forget
about being cautious and secretive about their endeavors. They carry on their
ceremonies and discussions in normal tones, and no longer worry about being
discovered. Only Marshall,
however, is
aware that they actually are
being watched,
and he chooses not to tell.
6. What knowledge does one
very small
Egyptian keep to himself?
Only Marshall, however, is
aware that they
actually are being watched, and
he chooses not
to tell.
Chapter 16: The Oracle of Thoth
1. What gets the players interested in the topic of oracles?
What makes the players interested in the topic of oracles is the class they had
on school in which they tell them that in ancient countries had depend on the
oracles.
2. Who comes up with the idea of using Thoth as the oracle?
Toby comes up with the idea of using Thoth as the oracle.
3. Who asks the first question?
Ken is the one who ask the first question in a bad mood.
4. Why does Ken think the rest of the players are crazy?
Because he didnt want to be the first to ask the questions.

Chapter 17: The Oracle Speaks

1. Who performs the ceremony of Returning to the Oracle for the Answer?
Toby takes charge of the proceedings and assigns April to play the part of the
high priestess. With due ceremony, April leads the others in processing to
Thoth's altar.
2. What does Ken ask the oracle?
Will I be a big league star someday?
3. Who do the Egyptians argue about the oracles answer?
They argue that everybody is guilty by writing the answer so they will do the
process again.
Chapter 18: Where is Security?
1. What does Marshall leave in Egypt?
Marshall leave security (its teddy octopus).
2. What does April ask the oracle?
When will I go home again?
4. How do the Egyptians react to the oracles answer?
They react surprised and they thought not to keep playing the game, but
Marshall says that we wont stop playing the game until he asks the last
question.
5. What does Marshall ask the oracle?
Where is security?
5. Who is most worried about Marshalls question to the oracle?
The most worry about Marshalls questions is toby.
Chapter 19: Confession and Confusion
1. Why does Toby call April at home?
Because he feels struggled with his conscience and calls the girls to tell them all about what he
has made.
2. Why does Toby fake injury?
Because he felt bad by faking that he was the oracle.
3. What does Toby confess to April and Melanie?
The confession he made to April and Melanie is that he was the one that wrote
the oracles answers to the questions the kids made.
4. How does the oracle answer Marshalls questions?
The oracle responds to Marshalls question by telling him that look under the
throne of Set.
5. Why was everyone surprised by the oracles response to Marshalls question?
Because its written by an unfamiliar letter.

Chapter 20: Fear Strikes

1. Who wants to ask the oracle another question?
Toby & April wants to ask another question to the oracle.
2. Why are Marshall and April alone in the Rosss apartment?
Because Melanie and his parents are going to a concert at the university.
3. Why do Marshall and April go to Egypt alone?
Because April left its math book in Egypt during the afternoon.
4. What happens to April after she climbs through the board in the fence?
Someone grabs April from the foot and the mouth so she couldnt yell.
5. What does April wonder about Marshalls behavior as she is being attacked?
April wonders that Marshall calls help.
6. Who finally calls for help?
Marshall.
7. What happens to Aprils attacker?
Someone calls out for help.
Chapter 21: The Hero
1. Where do Marshall and April go after leaving Egypt?
They are at the police station.
2. Who is Inspector Grant?
He is the one that makes the questions about Aprils aggression.
3. How does Marshall describe the man who grabs April?
Marshall describes him like this: the man who grabbed April had orange hair
and "spotted" skin.
4. Who does Marshall identify as the man who called for help?
He says that the Professor is the one who broke the window when April was in
trouble, and called for help.
5. What does April call Caroline for the first time?
They both cry and hug each other for the first time.
6. Who is the man who commits the crimes?
The "man who carries things at the store
7. How does Marshalls participation in the capture change his behavior?
The only difference in his behavior is an increased confidence in manner; he no
longer needs to take Security with him wherever he goes, and only needs his
stuffed octopus at night, when he is going to bed.
Chapter 22: Gains and Losses
1. What happens to the land of Egypt after April is attacked?
The Egypt land is closed for ever because the professors store was in a very
good way and it was reopening.
2. What is the Professors real name?
Doctor. Huddleston.
3. Who begins working at the Professors store?
Mrs. Chung
4. What objects does the Professor show to April?
He took down a small box and opened it carefully on the counter. There were
two objects in it, a flat piece of marble with dim hieroglyphics on it, and a small
head of a glowing milky white.
5. To who did the items the Professor showed to April once belong?
To Mr. Professors wife.
6. How does April respond to Dorotheas letter?
April responds to Dorotheas letter by telling her that April didnt want to spend
Christmas with her.

Chapter 23: Christmas Keys

1. Who asks to see the Egypt gang on Christmas Eve?
Mr. Professor
2. What reason does the Professor give for wanting to meet with the group?
He wants to tell them a bad, cruel and horrible story.
3. What is the Professors former profession?
He was a professor at the university in anthropology.
4. How did A-Z store get started?
It was Anas idea to build a store in which they could sell all the native handy
craft of the areas in where they have worked.
5. What information does the Professor give about the oracle?
He says that he was the one who hide security to avoid that security gets wet
and also that he was the one who write the answer to the question of Marshall.
6. What does the Professor give each member of the Egypt gang?
A key to enter to the backyard of his store so they could keep playing in Egypt
game.
7. Why does April feel sad after the children receive their keys?
Because nothing its going to be the same.
8. What question does April pose to Melanie at the end of the novel?
Melanie, she said, what do you know about Gypsies?