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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 fiance who becomes pregnant by another man.
(c) Mansour's new home.
(d) Mansour's ex-wife.

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

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

4. What does Mansour do to Sarhan?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Breaks his nose in a deserted hallway at the Miramar.
(c) Hits him at a motel in Cairo.
(d) Kicks him to death while Sarhan is unconscious.

5. Who does Mansour learn is arrested?
(a) Sarhan.
(b) Fawzi.
(c) Doreya.
(d) Hosny.

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

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

8. What happens when Sarhan steals a kiss from Zohra?
(a) She struggles free.
(b) She returns the kiss.
(c) She kicks him in the groin.
(d) She slaps him.

9. What does Zohra explain to Mansour about the fight in the hall?
(a) Zohra was angry with Sarhan.
(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 sister.
(d) Some man was angry at Hosny for sleeping with the man's wife.

10. What is the reason Doreya chose Fawzi to marry?
(a) His passion.
(b) His strength of character.
(c) His money.
(d) His religious beliefs.

11. What class is Hosny a member of according to Sarhan?
(a) The upper class.
(b) The upper middle class.
(c) The lowest of the low.
(d) The class Sarhan hates.

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

13. Who is Ali Bakir's lover?
(a) Zohra.
(b) Safeya Barakat.
(c) Sophie Garz.
(d) He does not have a lover.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what does Mansour think Zohra is probably driven?

2. Who is Mansour's brother?

3. What does Mahmoud want to buy?

4. Who does Sarhan encounter on the street and whom he finds different but familiar?

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

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