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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes to Ahmad's store and blurts out that he wants his mother to come home?
(a) Yasin.
(b) Umm Hanafi.
(c) Aisha.
(d) Kamal.

2. What does Zaynab threaten to do after fighting with Yasin in Chapter 57?
(a) Cheat on him.
(b) Leave.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Kill herself.

3. Who does Yasin not invite to his wedding?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Fahmy.
(d) Aisha.

4. What does Yasin complain about a lack of at his wedding celebration?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Food.
(d) Women.

5. What country does Kamal find on a map when picturing the exile's steadfast behavior?
(a) Malta.
(b) Greece.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

6. Whose daughter does Ahmad announce Yasin will marry?
(a) Hasan's.
(b) Iffat's.
(c) Jamil's.
(d) Widow Shawcat's.

7. What is Fahmy terrified to see puddles of at al-Husayn?
(a) Oil.
(b) Gas.
(c) Blood.
(d) Urine.

8. What does Fahmy read a letter about from the Wafd Delegation to the Sultan in protest of?
(a) British denial of Egypt's rights.
(b) Egyptian revolutions.
(c) Religion.
(d) Islam.

9. Whose house does Yasin watch in Chapter 39?
(a) Zubayda's.
(b) Haniya's.
(c) Zanuba's.
(d) Maryam's.

10. What does Ahmad forbid Fahmy to do in Chapter 62?
(a) Get married.
(b) Be politically involved.
(c) Go to school.
(d) Get a job.

11. What does Kamal become a regular at with the British troops in Chapter 64?
(a) Their church services.
(b) The tea queue.
(c) Their Sunday dinners.
(d) Their bar meetings.

12. Who particularly sees trouble in the actions of Yasin's new wife after they are married?
(a) Fahmy.
(b) Aisha.
(c) Amina.
(d) Ahmad.

13. What is the name of Yasin's new bride?
(a) Maryam.
(b) Zaynab.
(c) Zubayda.
(d) Jalila.

14. Which of the following things does not happen in the revolution that makes Fahmy's spirits soar?
(a) Strikes.
(b) Arson.
(c) Campus uproars.
(d) Mass demonstrations.

15. Who does Yasin try to have sex with in Chapter 41?
(a) Jalila.
(b) Zaynab.
(c) Nur.
(d) Umm Hanafi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only one to have an appetite in the family in Chapter 57?

2. Whose marriage does the Widow Shawcat arrange in Chapter 45?

3. Who does the person who visits Ahmad in Chapter 36 wish for her son to marry?

4. What is the content of the poem that Yasin is moved by?

5. What does Ahmad tell Yasim he must do if he can't control his wife?

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