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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hosny decide about Zohra?
(a) That he would quickly tire of her.
(b) That he wants to marry her.
(c) That she is too far beneath him for marriage.
(d) That she is lying about her past.

2. What is Hosny doing when Amer checks on noise in the hall?
(a) Playing a guitar.
(b) Singing off key at the top of his voice.
(c) Hitting a punch bag.
(d) Leading an irate woman away.

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

4. What does Amer wish about one mistake he made?
(a) It had ended his marriage.
(b) He had badly injured someone.
(c) It had gotten him into a bad marriage.
(d) It had not precluded his having offspring.

5. What does Zohra begin with a tenant on the fifth floor?
(a) Fighting lessons.
(b) Reading lessons.
(c) Music lessons.
(d) Art lessons.

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

7. How does Mariana dress Zohra?
(a) In a maid's outfit.
(b) In Mariana's clothes from when she was Zohra's age.
(c) In fetching, modern clothes.
(d) In old work clothes of her husband.

8. What does Hosny learn about Zohra at breakfast?
(a) That her brother is coming for her that day.
(b) That she is leaving the Miramar.
(c) That her fiance from whom she was fleeing has found her.
(d) Of Zohra's intention to learn to read.

9. Who is Tolba Marzuq?
(a) Amer's former mentor.
(b) Amer's brother.
(c) Amer's old and best friend.
(d) A fellow lodger.

10. How old is Amer Wagdi when he returns to his old residence?
(a) 69.
(b) 44.
(c) 58.
(d) 80.

11. Who exploited Zohra?
(a) Her grandfather and brother-in-law.
(b) Her last boyfriend.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her former employer.

12. Who does Zohra distrust?
(a) Mariana.
(b) Tolba.
(c) Mansour.
(d) Amer.

13. Who does Hosny go and have sex with after failing to embrace Zohra in the hall?
(a) An aging Maltese madame.
(b) No one.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) A woman he meets at the movies.

14. 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.

15. Where does Hosny pick up a girl?
(a) The Corniche.
(b) Metro Einema.
(c) The Cecil Hotel.
(d) The Trianon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarhan insist about Zohra?

2. Who was Wagdi's late master?

3. What does Amer wish to trust again?

4. Why is Mariana delighted about Zohra arriving?

5. Which boarder is an announcer for Alexandria Broadcasting Service?

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