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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. Who announces Sarhan's murder?
(a) Zohra.
(b) Tolba.
(c) Amer.
(d) Hosny.

2. Why is Hosny slightly jealous of Zohra?
(a) That she has so many admirers.
(b) He isn't jealous.
(c) That she is learning to read.
(d) That her brother cares enough to come get her.

3. Where does Hosny go for a night of alcohol and sex?
(a) Cairo.
(b) Chariots Hotel.
(c) Mahmoud's place.
(d) Safeya's place.

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

5. What does Sarhan insist about Zohra?
(a) That Zohra dislikes Hosny.
(b) That she and Sarhan are engaged.
(c) That she is a good girl.
(d) That Zohra is interested in a man not living at the Miramar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Amer think of Marzug?

2. What happened in Azhar in 1919?

3. What is Marzug to Mariana?

4. Where does Hosny pick up a girl?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Zohra and Amer have a chance to talk and how does Zohra feel about the two older, male boarders?

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

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

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

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 the general atmosphere at the beginning of the Umm Kulthum concert, and how does that change?

7. Describe Sarhan al-Beheiry.

8. Describe Mansour Bahy.

9. How does Hosny feel towards marriage and women?

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

(see the answer keys)

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