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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what is Amer famous?
(a) As an architect.
(b) As a journalist.
(c) As a painter.
(d) As a singer.

3. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?
(a) That she is lying to Mariana.
(b) That she is not a prostitute.
(c) That she would never marry him.
(d) That she is a prostitute.

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

5. What do Amer and Mariana plan?
(a) A May Day festival.
(b) A New Year's Eve celebration.
(c) A birthday celebration for Amer.
(d) A spring festival dancing party.

6. What does Amer wish to trust again?
(a) God.
(b) The government.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) Tolba.

7. What is Amer's concern about Zohra?
(a) That she may be pregnant.
(b) That her family may try to take her home.
(c) That she is ill.
(d) That she won't catch on quickly enough to her duties.

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

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

10. Why does Hosny think he should keep busy?
(a) So he does not have to be around the other boarders very much.
(b) To keep him from doing something stupid.
(c) To earn enough money to leave Egypt.
(d) To earn enough money to marry.

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

12. Who does Hosny meet that he thinks would be worth marrying?
(a) Zohra's sister.
(b) Sarhan's sister.
(c) Zohra's tutor.
(d) No one.

13. What pervades the group that gathers to listen to Umm Kulthum?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Aloofness.
(c) Fear.
(d) Congeniality.

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

15. About what is Hosny certain when he sees Zohra?
(a) That he would never fall in love with her.
(b) That he will marry her.
(c) That she will fall in love with him.
(d) That she is having an affair with Sarhan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hosny decide about Zohra?

2. What helps the group gathering?

3. Who does Sarhan decide he is going to marry?

4. Where does Amer visit that Sarhan appears?

5. Who exploited Zohra?

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