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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Zohra?
(a) Amer's next-door-neighbor.
(b) Mariana's granddaughter.
(c) Mariana's daughter.
(d) A woman who is looking for a job.

3. How does Hosny relieve tension?
(a) Driving his Ford at high speeds.
(b) Racing his boat on the river.
(c) Shopping and gambling.
(d) Sunbathing on the top of the Miramar.

4. What amuses Hosny about a commotion the hall?
(a) That Mariana is hitting Sarhan with a broom.
(b) That a woman is assaulting Sarhan.
(c) That Zohra is hiding behind Amer.
(d) That Zohra has just slapped Tolba.

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

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

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

8. What does Hosny order his Maltese madam to do?
(a) Find him a wife.
(b) Gather girls for an orgy.
(c) Plan a party for some of his male friends.
(d) Stay with him overnight.

9. What do Amer and Mariana compare?
(a) The way the house used to be compared to now.
(b) The cost of living from when they were younger to now.
(c) Their complaints about aging.
(d) The number and success of their grandchildren.

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

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

12. What do all of the three younger boarders declare?
(a) They were moving to the United States.
(b) Support for the regime currently in power.
(c) Support for the Revolution.
(d) They will not fight for any regime.

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

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

15. What business advice does Hosny receive?
(a) To put his money in Cairo, not Alexandria.
(b) To invest in the United States.
(c) To buy out a foreigner looking to flee Egypt.
(d) To invest in China.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hosny go and have sex with after failing to embrace Zohra in the hall?

2. What does Sarhan insist about Zohra?

3. Where does Amer visit that Sarhan appears?

4. Who does Zohra distrust?

5. What does Hosny do as he speeds through the city?

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