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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What has Mansour studied for his radio program?
(a) The Communist party.
(b) Amer's writing.
(c) The Muslim culture.
(d) The Revolution.

9. What does Hosny appear to be?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Generous.
(c) Timid.
(d) Conservative.

10. 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.

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

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

13. For what does Zohra seem to long?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Education.
(c) Affection.
(d) Truth.

14. What does Zohra reject that Sarhan wants?
(a) An ancient Muslim marriage.
(b) Marrying without Zohra's family's permission.
(c) Marrying later but being sexually together now.
(d) A living together arrangement.

15. What does Zohra explain to Mansour about the fight in the hall?
(a) Some man was angry at Hosny for sleeping with the man's sister.
(b) Some woman had followed Sarhan into the building and started a fight with Sarhan.
(c) Some man was angry at Hosny for sleeping with the man's wife.
(d) Zohra was angry with Sarhan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main characteristic Sarhan observes about Mansour?

2. What does Ali point out to Sarhan about Sarhan working within the system?

3. Where does Mansour think Zohra should do?

4. What history does Mansour think of writing?

5. What did Zohra's grandfather do that made Zohra run away?

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