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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salim Alwan eat for lunch each day?
(a) Potatoes and vegetables.
(b) Vegetables, potatoes, and a bowl of green wheat with pigeon meat and nutmeg.
(c) Rice and meat.
(d) Sprouted alfalfa with vegetables.

2. Why is Umma Hamida pleased with Salim Alwan's offer?
(a) The marriage will be a financial benefit to her.
(b) The marriage will get Hamida out of her house.
(c) The marriage will make Hamida happy.
(d) The marriage will be a professional success for her.

3. What stops the engagement of Salim Alwan to Hamida?
(a) Radwan Hussainy talks Salim Alwan out of the idea.
(b) Mrs. Alwan stops Salim Alwan.
(c) Salim Alwan changes his mind.
(d) Salim Alwan has a heart attack.

4. How many children does Salim Alwan have?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

5. What does Salim Alwan's company sell?
(a) Produce.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Perfumes.
(d) Rugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Salim Alwan believe that Allah has done to make men's lives easier?

2. What do Hussain Kirsha's modern friends have that he envies?

3. Why does Salim Alwan avoid a political career?

4. What does Abbas say is everything in life?

5. What does Hamida believe is the key to the entire world?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hamida decide that she will demand from Ibrahim Faraj before she goes away with him?

2. What conflicting emotions does Hamida feel for the stranger who keeps staring at her?

3. What has caused Sheikh Darwish to weep and how so loudly that all the alley can hear him?

4. Waiting for the boy with whom he has become acquainted, Kirsha suffers the "bitterness of victory." What is the bitterness of victory?

5. What does Hamida believe rich people eat?

6. What does Ibrahim Faraj tell Hamida that marriage leads to?

7. How does Hamida feel about questions of morality?

8. What relationship does the Kirsha family have to Hamida?

9. How does Radwan Hussainy behave toward his wife that is in contrast to his treatment of all others?

10. Why does Uncle Kamil have nothing more to do with Salim Alwan?

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