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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 think of Zohra as she is making his bed?
(a) She is hoping he will seduce her.
(b) She is serious.
(c) She is not that good looking.
(d) She would be a good wife.

2. What does Hosny do as he speeds through the city?
(a) Swears at Sarhan.
(b) Stops and visits his regular madames.
(c) Screams out his frustrations.
(d) Runs from the police.

3. What is Hosny doing when Amer checks on noise in the hall?
(a) Leading an irate woman away.
(b) Playing a guitar.
(c) Singing off key at the top of his voice.
(d) Hitting a punch bag.

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

5. Who exploited Zohra?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandfather and brother-in-law.
(c) Her last boyfriend.
(d) Her former employer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hosny relieve tension?

2. Who does Hosny take driving?

3. What pervades the group that gathers to listen to Umm Kulthum?

4. What does Hosny order his Maltese madam to do?

5. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mansour Bahy.

2. Why does Hosny's attitude towards Zohra change?

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

4. How does Hosny feel about old people?

5. How does Hosny feel towards marriage and women?

6. About what does Amer warn Zohra and why does he do so?

7. Why is Sarhan fighting a drunken Hosny in the hall one evening?

8. What do Amer and Mariana complain about and plan?

9. Describe Sarhan al-Beheiry.

10. What is Tolba Marzuq relationship to Mariana, and what does Amer think of him?

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