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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Sarhan get interested in marrying after learning her family has money?
(a) Safeya.
(b) No one.
(c) Rafatya.
(d) Aleya.

2. How long has it been since Mansour has seen Fawzi before now?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 1 month.

3. About what do Sarhan and his friend Rafat Amin talk?
(a) The Revolution.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Women.
(d) The old days and Socialism.

4. What does Zohra say about her and Sarhan?
(a) They had a falling out.
(b) They are just friends.
(c) They were secretly married.
(d) They are engaged.

5. Who does Mansour think is the life of the party on the night of the Umm Kulthum concert
(a) Mariana.
(b) Zohra.
(c) Sarhan.
(d) Amer.

6. What does Mariana do when Sarhan asks to rent a room?
(a) Refuses him at first.
(b) Flirts with him.
(c) Pries and haggles.
(d) Is obsequious.

7. Who does Sarhan encounter on the street and whom he finds different but familiar?
(a) Tolba.
(b) Safeya.
(c) Mahmoud.
(d) Zohra.

8. What does Sarhan declare has brought him and Zohra together?
(a) His seeing her in the grocery.
(b) Fate.
(c) Mariana.
(d) Amer.

9. Who is Mansour's brother?
(a) A distinguished police officer.
(b) The mayor of their small village.
(c) A Muslim cleric.
(d) A customs officer.

10. What is Sarhan's main attraction to Zohra
(a) Her generosity.
(b) Her ambition.
(c) Her kindness.
(d) Physical appearance.

11. Why is Mansour bitter?
(a) That his brother arranges for him to live in Miramar Pension.
(b) That he has a dead end job.
(c) That his mother tells him he is too ugly to marry well.
(d) That his fiance runs away and marries someone else.

12. What happens when Sarhan is with Zohara?
(a) He feels like an imposter.
(b) His worries fade away.
(c) He feels inadequate.
(d) He feels accepted?

13. What torments Mansour?
(a) Doreya's love.
(b) Sarhan's treatment of Zohra.
(c) Amer's insouciance.
(d) Hosny's dissipation.

14. To whose life does Ali say they will soon lead a similar one?
(a) Harun al-Rashid.
(b) Sarmish al-Hablid.
(c) Ali says they will live better than anyone else.
(d) Hablish Raman.

15. Where do Mansour and Doreya meet?
(a) At Doreya's mother's home.
(b) At the Cecil Hotel.
(c) At the Cairo Zoo.
(d) At the prison where Fawzi is being held.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mansour think Zohra should do?

2. By what does Mansour say Zohra is surrounded?

3. About what does Mahmoud want Sarhan's advice?

4. Who leaves before Umm Kulthum's concert is over?

5. Who provides the alcohol for the people at the pension listening to the concert?

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