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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Amal and Isabel discover carved into the baptismal font at the Mu'allaqah?
(a) The hieroglyph for water.
(b) A series of numbers.
(c) The hieroglyph for purity.
(d) Anna's name.

2. Who is Hasna?
(a) Isabel's new daughter.
(b) Sharif's first wife.
(c) The maid given to Anna by Zeinab.
(d) An Egyptian police officer symapthetic to the British.

3. Who is Tareq 'Atiyya?
(a) The leader of the student protests.
(b) One of Anna's assumed identities.
(c) The mechanic who repaired Amal's car.
(d) Amal's father's friend's son.

4. Why does Amal sleep poorly the night she reads about Anna and Sharif in the garden outside St. Catherine's Monastery?
(a) She is wondering what will happen next to Anna.
(b) She hears the shouts of protestors in the street below.
(c) She drank too much tea while reading.
(d) She is thinking about meeting Irving in London.

5. What does Mu'allaqah mean?
(a) Hung.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Secret.
(d) Run.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Emily?

2. Which character receives letters from Anna detailing her arrival in Alexandria?

3. What do Sharif and his uncle intend to establish for their community?

4. Which character has nominal rule over Egypt in Chapter 6?

5. What does Professor Yusuf claim brings meaning to life?

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