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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 she is lying about her past.
(b) That he would quickly tire of her.
(c) That he wants to marry her.
(d) That she is too far beneath him for marriage.

2. About what does Amer warn Zohra?
(a) The regular checks by the city police.
(b) Tolba's mistrust of her.
(c) Sarhan's intentions.
(d) Mansour's intentions.

3. What does he think Mariana is?
(a) A retired school teacher.
(b) A sweet grandmotherly matron.
(c) An aging madame.
(d) A scheming old woman.

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

5. How does Hosny like to treat women?
(a) As his friends.
(b) As his harem.
(c) As a sacred trust.
(d) As his equal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who owns Wagdi's old residence?
(a) Mme. Mariana.
(b) Mme. Flousey.
(c) Sir Bedouin.
(d) Mme. Coulette.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hosny think of Zohra as she is making his bed?

2. Who does Zohra distrust?

3. About what does Hosny obsess?

4. What do Amer and Mariana compare?

5. How does Mariana dress Zohra?

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