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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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. About what does Hosny obsess?
(a) Being turned down for marriage.
(b) That his sister is not yet married.
(c) That he wants to move to the United States.
(d) That his brother makes more money than he.

6. What is the bond between Amer and Mansour?
(a) Science.
(b) History.
(c) Art.
(d) Sports.

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

8. What does Amer think of Marzug?
(a) As quite interesting.
(b) As annoying.
(c) As wise.
(d) As brilliant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Wagdi recall?
(a) The birth of his son.
(b) The death of his wife.
(c) All the things he should have recorded in memoirs concerning his late master.
(d) The time his mother sat up with him all night and talked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hosny doing when Amer checks on noise in the hall?

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

3. For what is Amer famous?

4. What do all of the three younger boarders declare?

5. Who does Mariana evict?

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