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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. What does Hosny do one rainy morning with Zohra's teacher?
(a) Drives her to school.
(b) Takes her to Triolan.
(c) Drives her to meet her parents at a restaurant.
(d) Eats breakfast with her.

2. What angers Mansour about both himself and Sarhan?
(a) They love women who will not love them.
(b) They lack loyalty to a just cause.
(c) They use women.
(d) They are both fickle.

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

4. Where does Hosny go for a night of alcohol and sex?
(a) Safeya's place.
(b) Chariots Hotel.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Mahmoud's place.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Zohra distrust?

2. About what is Hosny certain when he sees Zohra?

3. What does Sarhan do to later explain the sudden fortune he expects?

4. Who does Sarhan encounter on the street and whom he finds different but familiar?

5. What is the bond between Amer and Mansour?

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