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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hosny learn about Zohra at breakfast?
(a) That her brother is coming for her that day.
(b) That she is leaving the Miramar.
(c) That her fiance from whom she was fleeing has found her.
(d) Of Zohra's intention to learn to read.

2. What pervades the group that gathers to listen to Umm Kulthum?
(a) Aloofness.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Fear.
(d) Congeniality.

3. What does Wagdi recall?
(a) All the things he should have recorded in memoirs concerning his late master.
(b) The time his mother sat up with him all night and talked.
(c) The death of his wife.
(d) The birth of his son.

4. What does Amer think of Marzug?
(a) As quite interesting.
(b) As wise.
(c) As brilliant.
(d) As annoying.

5. Who does Hosny meet that he thinks would be worth marrying?
(a) Zohra's tutor.
(b) No one.
(c) Zohra's sister.
(d) Sarhan's sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hosny think of Zohra as she is making his bed?

2. What is Hosny doing when Amer checks on noise in the hall?

3. Who is Tolba Marzuq?

4. Where does Hosny go for a night of alcohol and sex?

5. Who does Sarhan decide he is going to marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. After dropping the woman off at Mazarita, how does Hosny relieve his tension?

2. How does Hosny feel towards marriage and women?

3. Describe Hosny Allam.

4. Who announces Sarhan's death and what is Hosny's reaction?

5. With whom does Hosny hook up after leaving the Umm Kulthum at intermission, and what is the woman's advice to him?

6. What is Hosny's next encounter with Zohra and how does he react?

7. How does Hosny feel about old people?

8. Describe Mansour Bahy.

9. Where has Amer Wagdi moved and how long has it been since he was last there?

10. Describe Sarhan al-Beheiry.

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