If you are looking for the beginning of study guide for Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green then you should start HERE with the brief introduction. The links to each set of study questions will be posted at the bottom of that original post as they are completed so you can easily find whichever section you are looking for.
Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What had been going on for nearly two hundred years prior to Amen-em-het ascending to the throne of Pharaoh? (pg. 145)
In the wanderer’s tale, where was the ship he was on originally heading? (pg. 146)
What was unique about the island which the shipwrecked sailor washed up on? (pg. 147)
What kind of creature does the sailor encounter on the magical island? (pg. 148)
According to the creature, what accounts for the fact that this sailor did not die like the rest of the ship’s crew? (pg. 149)
What became of the last human person to walk on the magical island? (pg. 150)
What will happen to the island after the sailor leaves? (pg. 151)
How does the sailor get off the island? (pg. 151)
After the wanderer finishes his story with the Vizier, what happens? (pg. 152)
Logic Questions: (The Interpretation/Comparison of the Text)
After landing upon the island safely the text tells us that the sailor “made first of all a burnt offering to the gods.” What might we infer about him by this information? (pg. 147)
Given that a cubit is about 18 inches, how many feet long was the serpent? (pg. 148)
What kind of serpent threatens to burn someone “utterly to nothing”? Is this a mere snake, or something else? (pg. 148)
Given that a cubit is about 18 inches, how many feet long was the boat the sailor was on? (pg. 149)
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
The wanderer/sailor wants to beg Pharaoh to make him “commander of a royal ship” so he may return to the sea. Would you want to go back to the sea after such an experience? Why or why not? (pg. 152)
Would you say that this story has a lesson to be learned? If so, what?
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Compare the King of the Serpents to the serpent in Genesis 3 and Revelation 12. What similarities and dissimilarities do you see between the serpent in this story and the one in the biblical passages?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Prophecy