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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Of what does Hosny become convinced after talking with Mariana about Zohra?
2. What does Sarhan relate?
3. What does Amer wish about one mistake he made?
4. What happened in Azhar in 1919?
5. Who owns Wagdi's old residence?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hosny feel towards marriage and women?
2. After dropping the woman off at Mazarita, how does Hosny relieve his tension?
3. What are Hosny's impressions of the other Miramar residents?
4. What is the general atmosphere at the beginning of the Umm Kulthum concert, and how does that change?
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 Tolba Marzuq relationship to Mariana, and what does Amer think of him?
7. What does Mariana offer Zohra and what does Amer fear about Zohra?
8. Describe Mansour Bahy.
9. About what does Amer warn Zohra and why does he do so?
10. Why does Hosny's attitude towards Zohra change?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. Discuss Hosny Allam's character as symbolic of the corruption that underlies Egyptian culture at that time.
2. After researching Egyptian history from 1940 to the present, do you think Zohra Salama will make it as a single female in Egyptian society? Discuss fully using examples from your research.
3. Compare/contrast the life and choices of Zohra Salama to that of Safeya Barakat. How are their backgrounds similar or dissimilar? Why do they each make the specific choices they make? Could Zohra end up like Safeya? Why or why not? Is redemption possible for Safeya in the Egyptian culture of that time? Why or why not.
Essay Topic 2
Naguib Mahfouz published over 50 novels, more than 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films. There are a number of interesting questions raised by this book. Questions that Mahfouz may have wanted readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:
1. Research the life of Naguib Mahfouz and see if/where his life may have influenced his writing. Write a 2-3 page informative essay about Mahfouz as an author.
2. What does the term "author agenda" mean?
3.. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the Mahfouz's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss Mahfouz's probable agenda concerning that idea.
3. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?
4. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
Essay Topic 3
Zohra Salama interacts with all the characters in "Miramar" and may be said to have a pivotal role in revealing the personalities of some of the main characters. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly trace and analyze the relationship of Zohra to Sarhan al-Beheiry. How do they meet? What are each of their first impressions of the other? Is the relationship between the two friendly? Honest? Healthy? How does the relationship develop and change over the course of the novel? Does either character grow as a result of the relationship? Does either character get hurt by the other?
2. Thoroughly trace and analyze the relationship of Zohra to Hosny Allam. How do they meet? What are each of their first impressions of the other? Is the relationship between the two friendly? Honest? Healthy? How does the relationship develop and change over the course of the novel? Does either character grow as a result of the relationship? Does either character get hurt by the other?
3. Thoroughly trace and analyze the relationship of Zohra to Mansour Bahy. How do they meet? What are each of their first impressions of the other? Is the relationship between the two friendly? Honest? Healthy? How does the relationship develop and change over the course of the novel? Does either character grow as a result of the relationship? Does either character get hurt by the other?
4. Thoroughly trace and analyze the relationship of Zohra to Amer Wagdi. How do they meet? What are each of their first impressions of the other? Is the relationship between the two friendly? Honest? Healthy? How does the relationship develop and change over the course of the novel? Does either character grow as a result of the relationship? Does either character get hurt by the other?
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