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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are Amal and Isabel related?
(a) Isabel is Amal's aunt.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They are sisters.
(d) Amal is Isabel's aunt.

2. Who is Arwa Salih?
(a) Amal's old professor.
(b) A young Palestinian protestor.
(c) A mathematics professor at Cairo University.
(d) A leader of student movement in the early 1970's.

3. What does Amal find in the small blue book she removes from the trunk?
(a) Two months of missing journal entries.
(b) A financial account of Anna's journey through Egypt.
(c) Sketches from Anna's journey through Egypt.
(d) A journal written by Sharif.

4. Where are Anna's captors sent to sleep?
(a) In the stables.
(b) In a shrine.
(c) In the yard.
(d) In the kitchen.

5. What game are Professor Yusuf and Mahgoub al-Tilmisani playing in the Atelier 'am Ghazzali?
(a) Chess.
(b) Seega.
(c) Backgammon.
(d) Senet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anna disguise herself as she travels to the Mameluke tombs?

2. How does the carriage driver in Chapter 23 offend Sharif?

3. When Anna's captors discover her identity, which character takes charge of her?

4. What is the haramlek?

5. In Chapter 23, where does Sharif fear his father may soon go?

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