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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Hosny slightly jealous of Zohra?
(a) That she is learning to read.
(b) That her brother cares enough to come get her.
(c) He isn't jealous.
(d) That she has so many admirers.

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

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

5. Why are Sarhan and a drunken Hosny fighting?
(a) Sarhan insults Hosny's sister.
(b) Hosny insults Sarhan's mother.
(c) Sarhan tried to rape Zohra.
(d) Hosny tried to rape Zohra.

6. Who does Hosny feel is beneath him socially?
(a) Just Amer.
(b) Amer, Tolba and Sarhan.
(c) Just Sarhan.
(d) No one.

7. What is Marzug to Mariana?
(a) Her landlord.
(b) A former lover.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her brother-in-law.

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

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

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

11. Which of the boarders is a 30-year-old peasant?
(a) Sarhan.
(b) Hosny.
(c) Mansour.
(d) None of them.

12. Who was Wagdi's late master?
(a) Pecifion.
(b) Abu Wadi.
(c) The Pasha
(d) Zohra.

13. Who has a monthly radio concert?
(a) Umm Kuthum.
(b) Hosny Allam.
(c) Sarhan al-Beheiry.
(d) Mansour Bahy.

14. Who does Sarhan decide he is going to marry?
(a) No one.
(b) Aleya.
(c) Zohra.
(d) The girl his parents have chosen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?

2. What does Hosny learn about Zohra at breakfast?

3. What does Amer think of Marzug?

4. Why does Hosny think he should keep busy?

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

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