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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Amal and Isabel different?
(a) Amal is Jewish and Isabel is Palestinian.
(b) Isabel is ten years older than Amal.
(c) Amal is ten years older than Isabel.
(d) Isabel is Jewish and Amal is Palestinian.

2. What does Anna paint in Chapter 28?
(a) The haramlek.
(b) Sharif's portrait.
(c) Nur's garden.
(d) Nur's portrait.

3. What advice does Umm Aya give Isabel in "A Beginning of an End"?
(a) Change is coming, be prepared.
(b) Isabel should perfume herself and follow her womanly instinct.
(c) Political views change, but love is forever.
(d) Isabel should fast and pray for her true love to notice her.

4. Which character is 'Omar attracted to in Chapter 21?
(a) Isabel.
(b) Amal.
(c) Anna.
(d) Jasmine.

5. Why does Anna wish to leave Egypt in Chapter 17?
(a) Her Egyptian friends begin to snub her.
(b) English society in Egypt has become unbearable.
(c) She misses Edward.
(d) She is tired of the political unrest in Cairo.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Layla related to Amal?

2. Why do Amal and Isabel find Sheikh Haroun's shrine padlocked in Chapter 15?

3. What do Amal and Isabel discover carved into the baptismal font at the Mu'allaqah?

4. Where is Amal al-Ghamrawi when she has her terrifying dream?

5. Which Egyptian god did King Akhen Atun and Queen Nefertiti want to worship?

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