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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 is Amina's husband's name?

2. What does Amina discover she has broken?

3. What does Kamal envy about Yasin at the end of Chapter 9?

4. Which of the following is not one of Ahmad's morning rituals?

5. What does Yasin's mother do joyfully when he visits her for the first time in the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Ahmad and Mme. Zubayda's interactions described in Chapter 14?

2. How does the family react when Fahmy asks Amina to arrange his marriage to Maryam?

3. What does Amina help her husband with when he comes home drunk at midnight every night?

4. How is Amina's mother described when she goes to stay with her during her exile?

5. How are Ahmad's actions to those outside his household described?

6. How is Amina injured on her way home from visiting the al-Husayn shrine?

7. How are Ahmad's actions at a party where he hires Zubayda to sing described?

8. How does Amina's sons react when they come to visit her at her mother's house just after her exile?

9. How does Yasin prowl for women in Chapter 12?

10. What happens to Amina after her broken collarbone has healed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of education in the book, especially in regards to Kamal. What impact could Fahmy's educating Kamal on his nationalist beliefs have on his own ideals later on?

Essay Topic 2

Much of the end of the book focuses on the nature of Egyptian politics and the nationalist movement happening in 1919.

Part 1.) What is the nature of the nationalist movement in Cairo in 1919?

Part 2.) What does the reader learn about the nationalist movement from Fahmy's speeches in the book?

Part 3.) What role does the British troops' presence in the book in regards to the nationalist movement?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the characters of Yasin and Ahmad. What parallels are present between these two characters and what is significant about these?

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