The Egypt Game - Alamance-Burlington School System



The Egypt Game

Reading Comprehension Questions

• Put the answers to these questions in complete sentences and on notebook paper. Keep the paper in your notebook.

Pages 1-10

1. What is the setting of the story?

2. The neighborhood is comprised of people of various cultures. What does that mean?

3. Who is the Professor?

4. Why are the children fearful of him?

5. List the children who “discover” Egypt.

Pages 11-21

6. Why is April at Casa Rosada?

7. What is the Casa Rosada?

8. What evidence proves April is not “close” to her grandmother?

9. To what is the Casa Rosada compared?

10. Why?

Pages 22-33

11. Describe the impression April makes upon Melanie.

12. Why, do you suppose, April attempts to make such an impression?

13. Write at least three sentences that describe the paper-families game.

Pages 34-41

14. What worry does April have regarding the first day of school?

15. What is Melanie’s worry?

16. Who is the real Nefertiti?

Pages 42-49

17. Who is the secret spy referred to in the Chapter title “The Evil God and the Secret Spy?”

18. What is Marshall’s Egyptian nickname?

Pages 50-58

19. What problem do the eyelashes pose to Melanie?

20. How does she solve the problem?

21. What was the Crocodile Stone?

22. What are rituals?

23. What rituals do the Egypt game girls follow?

Pages 59-66

24. Describe Elizabeth.

25. Why do they allow her to join in the Egypt game?

Pages 67-79

26. Predict what the ‘trouble in the neighborhood’ could be.

27. How does the trouble affect the Egypt game participants?

28. Describe what they do to continue the game at home.

29. Why is the Professor a suspect?

30. Which Egypt game participant thinks he is innocent?

Pages 80-103

31. Describe the changes and improvements made to the Temple at the Egypt game.

32. Write three sentences that prove April’s relationship with her grandmother is improving.

33. How does the group manage to return to Egypt?

34. What did the shooting star signify to the Egypt game players?

35. Why is Elizabeth so pleased with herself?

36. Who is Security?

37. What does the group plan to do with him?

38. What do they sacrifice?

39. A cliffhanger is a device the author uses to encourage the reader to continue reading. It is a technique taken from early films. What is the cliffhanger at the end of this chapter/

Pages 104-122

40. What is the Elizabethan diplomacy?

41. What news does April hear from her mother?

42. Who are the invaders?

Pages 123-141

43. Name the Egyptian gods mentioned in this chapter.

44. Why is April resistant to Toby’s ideas?

45. Describe the story of Aida.

46. How is it relevant to what is going on in the story?

47. By telling their friends they have an after school job, what do the boys indicate about their commitment to the Egypt game?

48. What makes the Ceremony for the Dead an important for the Egypt game?

49. Why is Toby’s behavior different in school than what it is in the Egypt game?

Pages 142-158

50. Explain how Mrs. Granger is responsible for the next phase of the Egypt game.

51. Explain the idiom “going off your rocker.”

52. What is disturbing about the oracle’s answer to Ken’s question?

53. Why the Egypt game prefer Toby’s way of consulting the oracle to Aprils’ version?

54. Whom do you think wrote the answers? Why?

55. Who/What is Thoth?

56. Reread the last paragraph on page150. What does this imply?

57. Toby’s question was answered. Who do you think answered it?

58. What does the following statement mean? “Man is his own star, and that soul that can be honest, is the only perfect man.

59. Why does the thunder startle the children?

Pages 159-175

60. Why is Security an appropriate name for Marshall’s octopus?

61. What is Thoth’s answer to April’s question, and what does it mean?

62. Why doesn’t Marshall want to quit the Egypt game?

63. How did Toby convince the gang to continue the Egypt Game?

64. What is Toby’s confession to April?

65. Where was Security?

Pages 176-195

66. Why did the Egyptians no longer play the game or consult an oracle?

67. Is April a good babysitter? Explain with at least three (3) reasons

68. How did Marshall convince April to allow him to go with her?

69. Describe what happened while they were in “Egypt.”

70. Who saved whom and how did he/she do it?

71. What is meant by the expression “cool as a cucumber?”

72. How does Marshall describe the attacker?

73. What is a hero?

74. Why is Marshall a hero?

Pages 196-215

75. Describe, in at least three sentences, the change in the Professor and his store.

76. What is Aprils’ reaction to her mother’s letter and how what does it imply about April’s feelings?

77. What do you think of April’s reaction?

78. What gift did the Egyptians give to the Professor?

79. What does the Professor’s Christmas story reveal about him?

80. What did “Egypt Game” mean to all the participants?

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