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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Jasmine live?
(a) In an Alzheimer's home.
(b) In a cancer ward in London.
(c) In California.
(d) In a hotel.

2. In "An End of a Beginning", why does the mechanic refuse payment for his services?
(a) He is entranced by Isabel's light blue eyes.
(b) He is too proud to be perceived as poor by a foreigner.
(c) He is Amal's cousin.
(d) He wants Amal to introduce him to Isabel.

3. What does Anna ride as she travels into the Sinai desert?
(a) A camel.
(b) A donkey.
(c) A jeep.
(d) An Arabian mare.

4. What group is Omar rumored to be associated with?
(a) The Klu Klux Klan.
(b) The Mafia.
(c) Terrorists.
(d) Rebels.

5. What does Professor Yusuf claim brings meaning to life?
(a) Love.
(b) Struggle.
(c) Faith.
(d) Children.

6. Who is Tareq 'Atiyya?
(a) The leader of the student protests.
(b) Amal's father's friend's son.
(c) The mechanic who repaired Amal's car.
(d) One of Anna's assumed identities.

7. Why does Anna visit the South Kensington Museum?
(a) To admire jewelry from the Russian Tsars.
(b) To admire the paintings of Frederick Lewis.
(c) To study the paintings of Claude Monet.
(d) To study Egyptian artifacts.

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

9. Where is Amal al-Ghamrawi when she has her terrifying dream?
(a) Cairo.
(b) New York.
(c) Saudi Arabia.
(d) Israel.

10. How does Anna dress on the train to Suez?
(a) As an Egyptian woman.
(b) As an Egyptian man.
(c) As a French man.
(d) As an English man.

11. What happens to Edward in Chapter 3?
(a) He cannot adapt to civillan life and leaves Anna.
(b) He suffers from the psychological effects of war and is institutionalized.
(c) He is redeployed overseas.
(d) He suffers from the psychological effects of war and dies.

12. Where was Anna's husband stationed while fighting in the war?
(a) The Sudan.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Israel.
(d) Palestine.

13. What is torn down to modernize Egypt?
(a) Old buildings.
(b) Historical landmarks.
(c) Trees.
(d) A mosque.

14. Where was Amal born?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Israel.
(d) New York.

15. What happens to the car while Amal and Isabel are traveling to Amal's house?
(a) It has a flat tire.
(b) It overheats.
(c) It is hit by a bus.
(d) The transmission dies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Anna wakes in Chapter 12, where does she feel like she has been placed?

3. How does Husni like to solve problems?

4. How did Sharif come to be head of the Baroudi family?

5. What would Isabel like to create using Anna's journals?

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