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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Amer Wagdi [2].

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Wagdi recall?
(a) The birth of his son.
(b) The time his mother sat up with him all night and talked.
(c) The death of his wife.
(d) All the things he should have recorded in memoirs concerning his late master.

2. What happened in Azhar in 1919?
(a) There is a terrible earthquake.
(b) The Nile floods the town.
(c) There is a plague that decimates the town.
(d) The British invade.

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

4. Why is Mariana delighted about Zohra arriving?
(a) Zohra is bringing news about a new art show.
(b) Mariana is not speaking to Zohra's mother so is glad to see Zohra.
(c) Mariana wants a maid.
(d) Mariana has not seen Zohra in several years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tolba make the suggestion to Mariana?

2. Why does Mansour "dismiss" in his mind Amer and Tolba?

3. What does Zohra reject that Sarhan wants?

4. By what does Mansour think Zohra is probably driven?

5. What class is Hosny a member of according to Sarhan?

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