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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ahmad's assistant waiting to hear recited by a sheikh in Chapter 7?
(a) Their horoscopes.
(b) The news.
(c) The daily rules.
(d) The Qur'an.

2. Who shares a dream about being pushed off a roof with her family?
(a) Aisha.
(b) Haniya.
(c) Khadija.
(d) Zubayda.

3. What does Yasin say he can no longer pretend regarding his mother when he visits Ahmad in Chapter 17?
(a) That she isn't dead.
(b) That he loves her.
(c) That he hates her.
(d) That she doesn't exist.

4. What title does Ahmad hold at the party he throws in Chapter 16?
(a) The bridegroom.
(b) Leader of the pack.
(c) The man.
(d) The man of the hour.

5. What is the name of the matchmaker that visits Ahmad's store in Chapter 14?
(a) Haniya.
(b) Umm Ali.
(c) Umm Hanafi.
(d) Umm Maryam.

6. What kind of worker was the man that wooed Yasin's mother and ruined his childhood?
(a) A servant.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A fruit merchant.
(d) A cook.

7. What color hair does Aisha have?
(a) Blonde.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

8. What does Amina discover she has broken?
(a) Her collarbone.
(b) Her leg.
(c) Her arm.
(d) Her neck.

9. What is the name of the sheikh that admonishes Ahmad for his adultery and drunkenness?
(a) Zaghul.
(b) Hamzawi.
(c) Mutawalli.
(d) Kamal.

10. At what time does Amina have to wait up on her husband every night?
(a) 10:00 p.m.
(b) 1:00 a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 11:00 p.m.

11. When does Ahmad stop agitating to enforce good order in Chapter 20?
(a) Afternoon prayers.
(b) His afternoon drink.
(c) When he visits the bar.
(d) Daily chores.

12. What does Yasin tell his mother is the only way he will love her again when he visits her for the first time in the book?
(a) Move.
(b) Meet him in secret.
(c) Give him money.
(d) Drop her wedding plans.

13. Whose shrine does Yasin convince someone to go to in Chapter 27?
(a) Muhammed's.
(b) Al-Husayn's.
(c) Shakyh Mutawalli's.
(d) Zaghul's.

14. What does Khadija demand a confession of from Aisha in addition to never watching the policeman again?
(a) Wrong.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Treachery.
(d) Murder.

15. How many years has Amina been married to her husband?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 10 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on a provocative poster that Kamal looks at along with the shrine of al-Husayn?

2. What does Kamal envy about Yasin at the end of Chapter 9?

3. What kind of eyes does Amina say Ahmad had that made her confess how she really was injured?

4. What is the name of the neighbor girl who Fahmy watches do chores from the roof?

5. What does Amina feel transformed into when entering a mosque?

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