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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hosny do as he speeds through the city?
(a) Runs from the police.
(b) Stops and visits his regular madames.
(c) Swears at Sarhan.
(d) Screams out his frustrations.

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

3. About what does Hosny obsess?
(a) That he wants to move to the United States.
(b) That his brother makes more money than he.
(c) Being turned down for marriage.
(d) That his sister is not yet married.

4. Who announces Sarhan's murder?
(a) Hosny.
(b) Tolba.
(c) Zohra.
(d) Amer.

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

6. Where does Amer visit that Sarhan appears?
(a) The French Bistro.
(b) Trianon.
(c) A Gentleman's club.
(d) The race tracks.

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

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

9. Who does Mariana evict?
(a) Aleya.
(b) Mahmoud.
(c) Sarhan.
(d) Hosny.

10. Who does Hosny feel is beneath him socially?
(a) Just Amer.
(b) Just Sarhan.
(c) Amer, Tolba and Sarhan.
(d) No one.

11. What does Hosny think of Mansour?
(a) That he is ugly.
(b) That he is untrustworthy.
(c) That he is diffident.
(d) That he is very smart.

12. From whom does Zohra turn down a marriage proposal.
(a) Sarhan.
(b) Mahmoud.
(c) Tolba.
(d) Hosny.

13. What does Zohra think about Tolba's request for a massage.
(a) That he thinks she will work for free.
(b) That he has coarser intentions.
(c) That the request was in poor taste.
(d) She is indifferent.

14. What increases Hosny's hatred?
(a) Encounters with old people.
(b) Sarhan's superior attitude.
(c) Amer's solicitous questions.
(d) Encounters with young people.

15. Which of the boarders is a 30-year-old peasant?
(a) None of them.
(b) Mansour.
(c) Sarhan.
(d) Hosny.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Amer Wagdi when he returns to his old residence?

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

3. How does Mariana dress Zohra?

4. What is Marzug to Mariana?

5. Why does Hosny think he should keep busy?

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