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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who provides the alcohol for the people at the pension listening to the concert?
(a) Sarhan.
(b) No one.
(c) Hosny.
(d) Mahmoud.

2. Where does Ali want to meet Sarhan at 8 p.m.?
(a) The Cecil.
(b) The Swan.
(c) The Miramar.
(d) The Corniche.

3. Who is Zohra with when Sarhand sees her after visiting with his friend Rafat?
(a) A little boy.
(b) An old Greek woman.
(c) An elderly man who might be her grandfather.
(d) A young man about her age.

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

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

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

7. What does Ali point out to Sarhan about Sarhan working within the system?
(a) That only men whose fathers are already wealthy can use the system.
(b) That the system is as corrupt as highjacking a truck is.
(c) That Sarhan has benefited very little.
(d) That it is too slow a process to wealth.

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

9. Who does Mansour visit after learning of the arrest?
(a) No one; he is too afraid.
(b) Sonya.
(c) Doreya.
(d) Fawzi.

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

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

12. What does Sarhan long to do about Safeya?
(a) Find a good man for her.
(b) Leave her.
(c) Have the courage to marry her.
(d) Take her money and leave her.

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reason Doreya chose Fawzi to marry?

2. What does Mansour confess to Doreya?

3. By what does Mansour say Zohra is surrounded?

4. Who does Sarhan get interested in marrying after learning her family has money?

5. What does Zohra reject that Sarhan wants?

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