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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Amer Wagdi when he returns to his old residence?
(a) 69.
(b) 58.
(c) 44.
(d) 80.

2. What pervades the group that gathers to listen to Umm Kulthum?
(a) Fear.
(b) Congeniality.
(c) Hostility.
(d) Aloofness.

3. What does Hosny do as he speeds through the city?
(a) Runs from the police.
(b) Swears at Sarhan.
(c) Stops and visits his regular madames.
(d) Screams out his frustrations.

4. What is the bond between Amer and Mansour?
(a) History.
(b) Sports.
(c) Art.
(d) Science.

5. What do Amer and Mariana plan?
(a) A spring festival dancing party.
(b) A birthday celebration for Amer.
(c) A New Year's Eve celebration.
(d) A May Day festival.

6. Who is Tolba Marzuq?
(a) Amer's former mentor.
(b) Amer's brother.
(c) Amer's old and best friend.
(d) A fellow lodger.

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

8. What does Hosny think of Zohra as she is making his bed?
(a) She is not that good looking.
(b) She would be a good wife.
(c) She is serious.
(d) She is hoping he will seduce her.

9. What does Hosny learn about Zohra at breakfast?
(a) That she is leaving the Miramar.
(b) Of Zohra's intention to learn to read.
(c) That her brother is coming for her that day.
(d) That her fiance from whom she was fleeing has found her.

10. Which of the boarders is a 30-year-old peasant?
(a) None of them.
(b) Hosny.
(c) Mansour.
(d) Sarhan.

11. For what is Amer famous?
(a) As a singer.
(b) As a journalist.
(c) As an architect.
(d) As a painter.

12. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?
(a) That she is a prostitute.
(b) That she would never marry him.
(c) That she is lying to Mariana.
(d) That she is not a prostitute.

13. Where does Hosny pick up a girl?
(a) The Corniche.
(b) The Cecil Hotel.
(c) Metro Einema.
(d) The Trianon.

14. What does Hosny order his Maltese madam to do?
(a) Find him a wife.
(b) Gather girls for an orgy.
(c) Plan a party for some of his male friends.
(d) Stay with him overnight.

15. How does Mariana dress Zohra?
(a) In fetching, modern clothes.
(b) In a maid's outfit.
(c) In Mariana's clothes from when she was Zohra's age.
(d) In old work clothes of her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Sarhan and a drunken Hosny fighting?

2. What amuses Hosny about a commotion the hall?

3. What does Zohra begin with a tenant on the fifth floor?

4. What increases Hosny's hatred?

5. What do all of the three younger boarders declare?

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