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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business advice does Hosny receive?

2. How does Mariana dress Zohra?

3. Where does Hosny pick up a girl?

4. What is Hosny doing when Amer checks on noise in the hall?

5. What does Amer think of Marzug?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hosny's attitude towards Zohra change?

2. Describe the encounter between Zohra, Hosny and Sarhan.

3. What do Amer and Mariana complain about and plan?

4. Why does Hosny move to Miramar and what is his first thought about Zohra?

5. Where has Amer Wagdi moved and how long has it been since he was last there?

6. How does Hosny feel towards marriage and women?

7. Describe Mansour Bahy.

8. What are Hosny's impressions of the other Miramar residents?

9. What is Tolba Marzuq relationship to Mariana, and what does Amer think of him?

10. Why is Sarhan fighting a drunken Hosny in the hall one evening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Discuss Hosny Allam's character as symbolic of the corruption that underlies Egyptian culture at that time.

2. After researching Egyptian history from 1940 to the present, do you think Zohra Salama will make it as a single female in Egyptian society? Discuss fully using examples from your research.

3. Compare/contrast the life and choices of Zohra Salama to that of Safeya Barakat. How are their backgrounds similar or dissimilar? Why do they each make the specific choices they make? Could Zohra end up like Safeya? Why or why not? Is redemption possible for Safeya in the Egyptian culture of that time? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in "Miramar".

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of "Miramar". How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes the story. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and sometimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think "Miramar" is? Explain your response.

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