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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Hosny Allam.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Marzug once arrive at a party?
(a) On a horse.
(b) Drunk.
(c) In a black hearse.
(d) In a black limo.

2. Why does Hosny think he should keep busy?
(a) To earn enough money to leave Egypt.
(b) To keep him from doing something stupid.
(c) To earn enough money to marry.
(d) So he does not have to be around the other boarders very much.

3. What does Amer wish to trust again?
(a) His ex-wife.
(b) Tolba.
(c) The government.
(d) God.

4. Who does Hosny take driving?
(a) An Italian/Syrian whore.
(b) Sarhan.
(c) Zohra.
(d) Mariana.

5. What does Hosny decide about Zohra?
(a) That he would quickly tire of her.
(b) That she is too far beneath him for marriage.
(c) That she is lying about her past.
(d) That he wants to marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Hosny obsess?

2. What does Sarhan insist about Zohra?

3. Who does the narrator say is an introvert?

4. What pervades the group that gathers to listen to Umm Kulthum?

5. What amuses Hosny about a commotion the hall?

(see the answer key)

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