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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 is the name of the café that Yasin settles on in Chapter 12?
(a) Ezbekiya Garden.
(b) Goldsmith's Bazaar.
(c) Ahmad's Coffee Shop.
(d) Ali's Coffee Shop.

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

3. What is Yasin on the prowl for in Chapter 12?
(a) Friends.
(b) Women.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Alcohol.

4. Who accompanies Amina to a mosque in Chapter 27?
(a) Fahmy.
(b) Kamal.
(c) Ahmad.
(d) Khadija.

5. Which of the following does Yasin not do to forget his mother in Chapter 13?
(a) Worries about his inheritance.
(b) Gets drunk.
(c) Pines for Maryam.
(d) Curses his fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Ahmad in Chapter 3 that makes noises anger him?

2. What is the name of the matchmaker that visits Ahmad's store in Chapter 14?

3. What grazes Amina after leaving a mosque that causes her injury?

4. What is the name of the widowed woman that the matchmaker says wants to become Ahmad's second wife?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Ahmad's actions at a party where he hires Zubayda to sing described?

2. How is Amina injured on her way home from visiting the al-Husayn shrine?

3. How is Kamal's visit to Maryam in Chapter 21 described?

4. How are Kamal's "story hungry" actions described in Chapter 9?

5. How does Ahmad react when a matchmaker hints that Mme. Nafusa wanted to be his second wife?

6. How is Yasin's meeting with his mother described in Chapter 18?

7. What happens to Amina after her broken collarbone has healed?

8. How does Ahmad react to Fahmy's request to marry Maryam?

9. How does Amina's sons react when they come to visit her at her mother's house just after her exile?

10. What does Amina help her husband with when he comes home drunk at midnight every night?

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