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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happened in Azhar in 1919?
(a) The British invade.
(b) There is a plague that decimates the town.
(c) The Nile floods the town.
(d) There is a terrible earthquake.

4. 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.

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

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

7. Which boarder is built like a wrestler?
(a) Hosny.
(b) Sarhan.
(c) Mansour.
(d) Tolba.

8. How does Tolba feel about the new male boarders?
(a) Distrustful.
(b) Resentful.
(c) Interested in their work.
(d) Jealous.

9. Who does the narrator say is an introvert?
(a) Sarhan.
(b) Amer.
(c) Mansour.
(d) Mariana.

10. What news does Mariana bring about Sarhan days after he leaves.
(a) That he was murdered.
(b) That he married his childhood girlfriend.
(c) That he moved to Syria.
(d) That he joined the Army.

11. How does Marzug once arrive at a party?
(a) On a horse.
(b) In a black hearse.
(c) In a black limo.
(d) Drunk.

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

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

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

15. Which boarder is an announcer for Alexandria Broadcasting Service?
(a) Mansour.
(b) Sarhan.
(c) Hosny.
(d) Tolba.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Hosny slightly jealous of Zohra?

2. What does Hosny decide about Zohra?

3. About what does Amer warn Zohra?

4. What does Amer think of Marzug?

5. Which of the boarders is a 30-year-old peasant?

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