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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Sarhan al-Beheiry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Amer say opens the way through eloquence for the current generation of engineers and economists?
(a) No one could open the way for the engineers and economists who have lost their soul.
(b) His generation.
(c) The generation midway between Amer's and Sarhan's.
(d) The last ten generations.

2. Who does Hosny drive to Mazarita?
(a) Amer.
(b) Tolba.
(c) The woman who had been hitting Sarhan.
(d) Zohra.

3. What does Zohra explain to Mansour about the fight in the hall?
(a) Some man was angry at Hosny for sleeping with the man's wife.
(b) Some woman had followed Sarhan into the building and started a fight with Sarhan.
(c) Zohra was angry with Sarhan.
(d) Some man was angry at Hosny for sleeping with the man's sister.

4. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?
(a) That she is lying to Mariana.
(b) That she is a prostitute.
(c) That she is not a prostitute.
(d) That she would never marry him.

5. About what do Sarhan and his friend Rafat Amin talk?
(a) Marriage.
(b) The old days and Socialism.
(c) Women.
(d) The Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarhan relate?

2. Who does Hosny take driving?

3. What does Amer think about faith and doubt?

4. What does Hosny think of Zohra as she is making his bed?

5. Who does Mansour learn is arrested?

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