The Egypt Game

Comprehension Questions
Diego Martin and Mateo Gutierrez
Chapter 1: The Discovery of Egypt
1.Who owns the Antique store?
A1: The guy that is named The professor, since nobody knows his real name.
2. Where is the store located?
A2: Orchard Avenue (California).
3. How do people in the community generally feel about the Professor?
A3: They think he is mysterious, since nobody knows much about him, some people also
feel afraid towards him.
4. Who first witnesses the Egypt Game?
A4: Melanie is the one that proposes the Egypt Game to be created, following her
experience with the role-play games she did I her house.
5. What are the names of the three children the Professor watches through the window?
A5: The kids are April, Melanie, and Marshall (they were playing the game in the
professors backyard).
6. What is Marshall carrying with him?
6A: He is carrying a toy octopus, he said he was called Security.
Chapter 2: Enter April
1. What does April Hall sometimes call herself?
A1: She calls herself April Dawn.
2. What is the name of the building where April comes to live?
A2: The name of the building is the Casa Rosada.
3. Who is Dorothea?
A3: She is Aprils mother, she is glamorous.
4. Who is Caroline?
A4: She is Aprils grandmother (from his father side)
5. What happened to Aprils father?
A5: Aprils father died in a mysterious accident even before April could met him.
6. Where does Caroline work?

A6: She works in the library at the university.

7. Who is April supposed to check in with before leaving the building?
A7: She is supposed to check in with Mrs. Ross.
8. What does April purchase from the drug store?
A8: She went there to purchase some fake eyelashes.
9. Why is April impressed by the man at A-Z?
A9: She was impressed at all the antique/ancient things she sees around the store.
10. What does April tell the man she wants to be when she grows up?
A10: April wants to be an archeologist when she grows up, since she is very interested in
what refers to ancient Egypt.
Chapter 3: Enter Melanieand Marshall
1. Why is Melanie hopeful as she knocks on Apartment 312?
A1: She wanted to meet April with the hope that they could turn friend easily, and invite
her to take lunch with her, her mother and little brother.
2. What is Melanies initial reaction when April opens the door?
A2: She saw April, and though that she was weird looking, because she was very
stravagant and also, wasnt correctly dressed (she also brought out the fact that Aprils
eyelashes where not adjusted correctly).
3. Why doesnt April think Melanie will like her?
A3: Because April has always had a trouble making friends, and was afraid that Melanie
would reject her or dont like her, reason why she dressed up like a stravagant adult, for
trying to make a good impression, following the example of her mother.
4. How does April first describe her mothers job to Melanie?
A4: She describes her mothers job like if she was a celebrity, working as an actress in
Hollywood.
5. What is Melanies favorite occupation?
A5: She likes to play her role-play games, cutting peoples pictures off from magazines,
and inventing stories about them.
6. What does Melanie keep hidden in the dull-looking old geography book?
A6: She keep the paper dolls from her games hidden in that book.
7. How does April react to Melanies secret hobby?
A7: She first thinks is kind of weird, like from a little girl, but then, when she plays the

game, she actually likes it very much.

8. What name does Melanie give to the games that the girls play?
A8: She calls them the imagining games.
Chapter 4: The Egypt Girls
1. Where do Melanie and April go almost every day in August?
A1: They went to the library almost every day, and played the paper-families game. They
liked to go to the library for reading and borrowing books about ancient Egypt.
2.How do April and Melanie earn the name the Egypt girls?
A2: They earn this name because of the things they liked to look on the library, which
where things related with Egypt.
3. Why are April and Melanie worried about the start of school?
A3: April was worried that by experience, she wouldnt make good relationships with her
partners, and Melanie though that the same could happen to her.
4.What aspect of Aprils appearance most concerns Melanie?
A4: She was concerned about Aprils fake eyelashes, since she though the kids at school
will dislike and/or bully her because of how they looked.
5. What reason does April give Melanie for her feelings about Caroline?
A5: April said she disliked Caroline, because she thought that her fake eyelashes looked
bad and she didnt like April wore them.
6. What do April, Marshall, and Melanie find in the deserted yard that April considers a
Beautiful messenger from out of the ancient past?
A6: They found a statue of Queen Nefertiti, making April describe it as a beautiful
messenger from out of the ancient past.
Chapter 5: The Evil God and the Secret Spy
1. Who does Melanie suggest might be watching them through the
window?
A1: She thinks that the professor might be watching them through the window,
since the yard was at the back of the professors store.
2. Who do the girls appoint pharaoh?
A2: They appointed Marshall as the Pharaoh in the game.
3. What do they name the pharaoh?
A3: They name Marshall as Marshamosis.
4. Why does Marshall agree to play the game?
A4: Marshall Agrees to play the game because Aril said that everybody had to
bow down to him and do exactly what he said.
5. Who is Set?
A5: Set is the god of evil.
6. Where do the girls get the rules for the Egypt game?

A6:
7. What happens unbeknownst to the girls after they throw the boxes
over the fence?
Chapter 6: Eyelashes and Ceremony
1. Why is April having trouble concentrating the day before school is to
begin?
A1: She had trouble concentrating the day before school because she didnt have
good relationships in school, and also, she thought she wasnt going to be well
received in there.
2. Why is Melanie having trouble concentrating?
A2: Melanie thinks on what April is actually thinking about school, so she is afraid
that those things might happen to her.
3. What does Melanie take from Aprils room? How?
A3: Se picked up Aprils fake eyelashes from her dresser; she walked there and
picked them up so April wouldnt use them again.
4. How do the sixth graders at Wilson respond to April?
A4: First they start to make fun of her but then Melanie stands up for her, so the
kids stop and then they start to accept April.
5. What nickname do Toby and Ken give to April? Why is it important?
A5: The nickname that the guys gave April was February, it was important
because they put that nickname because they think April was starting to be cool
in the school.
6. What do Isis and Nefertiti represent?
A6: Isis is the god of love I the ancient Egypt, and Nefertiti was the queen of
ancient Egypt. They both represented love and beauty.
7. How are the rituals of the Egypt game recorded?
8. What is the Crocodile Stone? What do the girls do with it?
Chapter 7: Neferbeth
1. Who moves into Casa Rosada in September? How old is she?
A1: She is called Elizabeth, and she is nine years old, she was the oldest between
her other three sisters.
2. Who does Elizabeth look like to April and Melanie?
A2: They first saw Elizabeth as annoying and weird, but then, they discover her
soft and kind personality, which leads them to change their perspective and
feelings towards Elizabeth, Thinking that she resembles to Nefertiti.
3. Why do April and Melanie ask Elizabeth to join the Egypt game?
A3: Well, as we said in the last question, Elizabeths personality resembled to the
one of queen Nefertiti, and she also had interests in the topic of Egypt, reason
why Melanie and April decided to let her be in the game.
Chapter 8: Prisoners of Fear
1. How does Elizabeth respond to the Egypt game?
A1: She actually gets along well in the game and she is also fascinated with it.
2. What name do Melanie and April give to Elizabeth in the game?

A2: They gave Elizabeth the name of Neferbeth.

3. What puts a temporary stop to the Egypt game?
A3: There was a murder in the neighborhood, in which a little girl was
assassinated; because of this, the girls are forced to stay indoors and not play any
outdoor game.
4. Who does the community believe is guilty?
A4: The community actually thinks that the professor could have been the
assassin, since they saw two policemen entering into his shop the day after the
murder occurred.
5. Who organizes 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?
A6: Sometimes they actually tried to play the game indoors, but they said it wasn
t the same, so instead, they used their time to make costumes so that they could
use them in Egypt when they would be able to play outside again.
7. How do accusations against the Professor affect his business?
8. What changes do the players notice in Egypt when they stop by
briefly?
A8:
Chapter 9: Summoned by the Mighty Ones
1. Under what circumstances are the kids in the neighborhood allowed
to trick-or-treat?
A1: Some parents got the idea to take groups of large trick-or-treaters around
the neighborhood to prevent something to happen.
2. What is Aprils plan for revisiting Egypt?
A2: She plans to visit the abandoned storage yard with Melanie; they are looking
for the secret Omen, a shooting star, so then they can go to Egypt.
3. What costumes do April, Elizabeth, Melanie, and Marshall wear for
Halloween?
4. What token does April claim Set and Isis have sent to the players as a
summons?
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?
A1: They run while the people were distracted, they run after the two boys that
were toby and ken.
2. Describe Ken and Tobys costumes.
A2: the costumes that toby and ken were some that hold the attention of all
people, this were also as good as the ones that the gang were wearing.
3. What does the Egypt gang claim to be the secret omen?
A3: they claim that they would see the shooting star at Egypt so they give them
protection.
Chapter 11: Egypt Invaded
1. What does April declare the Crocodile God demands for sacrifice?
A1: they think that they would have a sacrifice because they think that the gods
would be angry because they were out so many time.
2. What does Marshall mumble under his breath after April tells him not
to yell?
A2: he mumbles that the octopus at least would be safe with the gods.

3. What do the players decide to use for sacrifices?

A3: they decide to use blood to write letters to the gods, the blood is from the
players, but then they dont know how to take the blood so they make something
different with the octopus.
4. What happens at the end of the Ceremony of Sacrifice?
A4: well as I said they finally use the octopus as an sacrifice, but when they finish
they see a strange figure in the sky.
Chapter 12: Elizabethan Diplomacy
1. Who enters Egypt uninvited?
A1: to Egypt the boys enter uninvited, they were toby and ken that they were
climbing the fence and enter to the game.
2. Why does Elizabeth invite the boys to join their game?
A2: she says that it would be good to invite more people so she says that they
can keep the secret so they can play.
3. Who does Melanie credit with saving the Egypt game after outsiders
discover the games existence?
A3:
4. Why does Melanie think that Elizabeths method is successful?
A4:
Chapter 13: Moods and Maybes
1. Why do Melanies parents argue about the kids playing outside?
A1: they think that the person that makes the crime is still there so they think its
better idea to keep safe the kids.
2. Why is April in a bad mood?
A2: because she had received a letter from her mother telling that there is not
room for her in the new house Dorothea bought.
3. What kind of list does Toby ask the girls to make? What does he plan
to do with it?
A3: well they tell them that they wish to know more about Egypt so they ask the
girls for information and even they ask for books.
Chapter 14: Hieroglyphics
1. What do Toby and Ken bring to Egypt?
A1: They brought lots of creepy and nasty things for the altar for Set (The god of
evil).
2. Who is Thoth?
A2: Is the bird-headed god of wisdom and writing.
3. Why does Toby think they should finish the alphabet of hieroglyphics?
A2: He proposes to finish it because they didnt want the others to know what
they wrote to each other by using those hieroglyphics.
4. What do the players want to purchase with the money they earn?
A4: They wanted to buy ancient books from Egypt, so they could get information
for them to practice their alphabets.
5. List the players Egyptian names and hieroglyphic symbols.
A5: Tobys name was Ramose and his symbol was the face of an owl. Kens
name was Horemheb and his symbol was a sword with blood. Melanies name
was Aida and her symbol was a bird. Aprils name was Bastet and her symbol
was a cat mask. Elizabeths name was Neferbeth and her symbol was a heart.

And Marshalls name was Marshamosis and his symbol was the double-crown of
Egypt.
6. Who is Petey?
A6: Petey was a parakeet.
Chapter 15: The Ceremony for the Dead
1. What happens to Prince Pete-ho-tep?
2. How are the high priests of Anubis chosen for the ceremony?
3. How long does Toby think the mummification ceremony might take?
4. Who is the chief mourner?
5. Why do the players become less cautious?
6. What knowledge does one very small Egyptian keep to himself?
Chapter 16: The Oracle of Thoth
1. What gets the players interested in the topic of oracles?
2. Who comes up with the idea of using Thoth as the oracle?
3. Who asks the first question?
4. Why does Ken think the rest of the players are crazy?
Chapter 17: The Oracle Speaks
1. Who performs the ceremony of Returning to the Oracle for the
Answer?
2. What does Ken ask the oracle?
3. Who do the Egyptians argue about the oracles answer?
Chapter 18: Where is Security?
1. What does Marshall leave in Egypt?
2. What does April ask the oracle?
3. How do the Egyptians react to the oracles answer?
4. What does Marshall ask the oracle?
5. Who is most worried about Marshalls question to the oracle?
Chapter 19: Confession and Confusion
1. Why does Toby call April at home?
2. Why does Toby fake injury?
3. What does Toby confess to April and Melanie?
4. How does the oracle answer Marshalls questions?
5. Why was everyone surprised by the oracles response to Marshalls
question?
Chapter 20: Fear Strikes
1. Who wants to ask the oracle another question?
2. Why are Marshall and April alone in the Rosss apartment?
3. Why do Marshall and April go to Egypt alone?
4. What happens to April after she climbs through the board in the
fence?
5. What does April wonder about Marshalls behavior as she is being
attacked?
6. Who finally calls for help?
7. What happens to Aprils attacker?
Chapter 21: The Hero

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Where do Marshall and April go after leaving Egypt?

Who is Inspector Grant?
How does Marshall describe the man who grabs April?
Who does Marshall identify as the man who called for help?
What does April call Caroline for the first time?
Who is the man who commits the crimes?
How does Marshalls participation in the capture change his behavior?

Chapter 22: Gains and Losses

1. What happens to the land of Egypt after April is attacked?
2. What is the Professors real name?
3. Who begins working at the Professors store?
4. What objects does the Professor show to April?
5. To who did the items the Professor showed to April once belong?
6. How does April respond to Dorotheas letter?
Chapter 23: Christmas Keys
1. Who asks to see the Egypt gang on Christmas Eve?
2. What reason does the Professor give for wanting to meet with the
group?
3. What is the Professors former profession?
4. How did A-Z store get started?
5. What information does the Professor give about the oracle?
6. What does the Professor give each member of the Egypt gang?
7. Why does April feel sad after the children receive their keys?
8. What question does April pose to Melanie at the end of the novel?