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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. How does Zaita react to being compared with Jaada?
(a) He is insulted.
(b) He is unsurprised.
(c) He is encouraged in his pursuit of Husniya.
(d) He is flattered.

2. What does Radwan Hussainy advise Mrs. Kirsha to do about her husband's behavior?
(a) Turn him in to authorities.
(b) Try to win him back.
(c) Leave him to God.
(d) Flee from his house.

3. What does Kirsha mean when he says a "galman"?
(a) A Briton.
(b) A neat, clean person.
(c) A gentleman.
(d) A new type of hashish.

4. What does Salim Alwan want from Hamida?
(a) He wants her to be mistress.
(b) He wants her to work in his business.
(c) He wants to adopt her.
(d) He wants her to be his second wife.

5. How does Zaita know the intimate details of the bakers' lives?
(a) Jaada confides in him.
(b) He can hear their arguing through the wall.
(c) He spies through a hole in the wall.
(d) Husniya tells him everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the boy respond to Kirsha's invitation to come to his cafe?

2. Why does Abbas say that Uncle Kamil is completely without profit for him?

3. Why does Sheikh Darwish think Kirsha should love his wife?

4. How do the residents of the alley believe women should be treated?

5. What are the professions of Salim Alwan's sons?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hamida hope when the handsome stranger first talks to her - a hope that is the exact opposite of what she says?

2. When Kirsha shows anger toward Sheikh Darwish, he appeals to Zainab. Who is she and why does Sheikh Darwish pray to her?

3. Which of the alley residents was most affected by the news of Abbas' tragic death?

4. Of Abbas and Hussain Kirsha, which was first to leave the alley and which was first to return?

5. What does Jaada do that causes Husniya to beat him continually?

6. How does Hamida feel when Ibrahim Faraj begins to woo her?

7. How do Hamida and her friends feel about the Jewish girls that work in Cairo?

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

9. How does Hamida feel about questions of morality?

10. Why does Kirsha wish success to Hitler?

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