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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shocks Isabel in Chapter 5?
(a) The knowledge that her mother knows Omar.
(b) Jasmine curses her.
(c) She sees Omar with Jasmine.
(d) The knowledge that her mother knows Amal.

2. Who is Armand Demange?
(a) A policeman in Cairo.
(b) A Frenchman Anna meets on the train to Suez.
(c) Head of the Mustafa family.
(d) The French identity Anna wants to assume as she travels to Sinai.

3. What do Amal and Isabel discover carved into the baptismal font at the Mu'allaqah?
(a) A series of numbers.
(b) The hieroglyph for purity.
(c) Anna's name.
(d) The hieroglyph for water.

4. Which sea does Anna view on the way to Sinai?
(a) The Red Sea.
(b) The Arabian Sea.
(c) The Dead Sea.
(d) The Black Sea.

5. What city does Anna visit with Lady Caroline Burke in January of 1900?
(a) Jerusalem.
(b) London.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does the Khedive visit in Chapter 7?

2. Why does Amal sleep poorly the night she reads about Anna and Sharif in the garden outside St. Catherine's Monastery?

3. Why do Anna and Sharif confront Lord Cromer at the Agency?

4. What stipulation does Lord Cromer want to place on Sharif and Anna's marriage?

5. How does Anna dress on the train to Suez?

(see the answer key)

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