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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Sarhan see Zohra buying papers?
(a) In the Pharmacy.
(b) In Mahmoud's kiosk.
(c) In the convenience store.
(d) In High-Life Grocery.

2. What does Mansour pity in Zohra?
(a) Her self confidence.
(b) Her waning good looks.
(c) Her poverty.
(d) Her loneliness.

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

4. How does Mansour find Sarhan?
(a) Sympathetic.
(b) Wily.
(c) Gracious.
(d) Rude.

5. What does Sarhan declare the first time Zohra brings him tea?
(a) That he will never marry.
(b) That he loves her.
(c) That he is engaged.
(d) That he loves a woman named Safeya.

6. What do Sarhan and Safeya do in Mahmoud's presence?
(a) Pretend to already be married.
(b) Have a terrible fight.
(c) Declare their intent to marry.
(d) Declare their intent to separate.

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

8. With whom would Sarhan wish to listen to the Umm Kulthum's concert?
(a) Ali or Rafat.
(b) No one.
(c) Safeya.
(d) Mahmoud.

9. About what do Mansour and Fawzi banter?
(a) Mansour's new home.
(b) Mansour leaving the party.
(c) Mansour's ex-wife.
(d) Mansour's fiance who becomes pregnant by another man.

10. Who does Mariana thwart from interacting with Zohra?
(a) Hosny.
(b) Mansour.
(c) Amer.
(d) Mahmoud.

11. Where does Sarhan first see Zohra?
(a) In the Miramar lobby.
(b) In High-Life Grocery.
(c) In the Cecil Hotel lobby.
(d) In High-Life Restaurant.

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

13. How does Zohra feel about Sarhan?
(a) She does not have any feelings yet as she just met him.
(b) She does not trust him.
(c) She thinks he is insufferable.
(d) She likes him but is afraid of him.

14. What angers Mansour about both himself and Sarhan?
(a) They lack loyalty to a just cause.
(b) They love women who will not love them.
(c) They are both fickle.
(d) They use women.

15. Why does Sarhan want to cultivate a relationship with Mansour?
(a) Sarhan does not say if he wants to cultivate a friendship with Mansour.
(b) Because Mansour is generous with picking up the tab at restaurants.
(c) Because Mansour reminds Sarhan of Sarhan's dead brother.
(d) Because of Mansour's brother who is a policeman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sarhan long to do about Safeya?

2. What does Zohra reject that Sarhan wants?

3. What has Mansour studied for his radio program?

4. What does Tolba point out about the Soviet bloc?

5. What does Mansour confess to Doreya?

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