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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Hosny Allam.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarhan relate?
(a) A story about the mayor of Sarhan's birth city.
(b) Endless jokes.
(c) A series of gossip items about a woman who used to work at the Miramar.
(d) A story about his brother and a prostitute.

2. Who does Hosny take driving?
(a) Sarhan.
(b) Mariana.
(c) An Italian/Syrian whore.
(d) Zohra.

3. About what does Amer ramble?
(a) About his life as a journalist in Paris.
(b) His heroic past.
(c) What a good catch Zohra would be.
(d) That he knows Umm Kulthum personally.

4. Why does Hosny move to the Miramar?
(a) He is bored at the Cecil Hotel.
(b) He knows Amer.
(c) His brother lives there.
(d) He knows Tolba.

5. What do all of the three younger boarders declare?
(a) They were moving to the United States.
(b) They will not fight for any regime.
(c) Support for the regime currently in power.
(d) Support for the Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amer wish to trust again?

2. About what does Hosny obsess?

3. What amuses Hosny about a commotion the hall?

4. Who does Hosny meet that he thinks would be worth marrying?

5. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?

(see the answer key)

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