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This test consists of 10 short essay questions.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a Djinn?

2. Why did Abla suggest that Alks were made by men?

3. How did modern-day Cairo come to be, according to the novella?

4. Explain the spirit’s reaction when it saw the two agents. How does it receive them and how does it end up to be?

5. What were the different kinds of djinns according to the author in Chapter 2?

6. What does the author say about the traffic of Cairo?

7. What did the Superintendent think about the discovery that the spirit was a djinn?

8. What do the Abla's earrings symbolize?

9. How does the novella depict the government?

10. What does the author say about the education system of the Egypt?

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