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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country does the Khedive visit in Chapter 7?
(a) Israel.
(b) Egypt.
(c) England.
(d) The United States.

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

3. By what famous landmark does Anna have a picnic?
(a) The Great Pyramid.
(b) St. Catherine's Monastery.
(c) The Citadel.
(d) The Sphinx

4. Which character receives a letter from Anna describing her meeting with Layla?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Isabel.
(c) Edward.
(d) Sir Charles.

5. How does Amal get Isabel into the Atelier 'am Ghazzali?
(a) She dresses Isabel as an Egyptian woman.
(b) She claims Isabel is on a political march.
(c) She tells Professor Yusuf that Isabel is her sister-in-law.
(d) She bribes Mahgoub al-Tilmisani.

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

7. Who insists on accompanying Anna to Sinai?
(a) Husni.
(b) Sharif.
(c) Layla.
(d) Isabel.

8. What has Isabel brought with her from New York?
(a) An album.
(b) A trunk.
(c) A letter.
(d) A book.

9. Which Egyptian god did King Akhen Atun and Queen Nefertiti want to worship?
(a) Atun.
(b) Anubis.
(c) Osiris.
(d) Amon-Ra.

10. In "An End of a Beginning", what does Isabel find in a drawer as she unpacks?
(a) The 1919 Egyptian flag.
(b) A tapestry.
(c) A blue journal.
(d) A green journal.

11. What separates Egyptian women from men in the ballroom?
(a) A curtain.
(b) A solid wall.
(c) Guards.
(d) A grill.

12. Which character does Isabel love?
(a) Amal.
(b) Charles.
(c) Edward.
(d) Omar.

13. While at the Atelier 'am Ghazzali, what empire does Arwa compare to the United States?
(a) The British Empire.
(b) The Ottoman Empire.
(c) The Ancient Roman Empire.
(d) The Persian Empire.

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

15. Which friend of Amal's is carrying her fifth child in Chapter 8?
(a) Tahiyya.
(b) Emily.
(c) Isabel.
(d) Anna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Anna miss?

2. Where does Isabel plan to go for the millennium celebration?

3. What item of Anna's does Amal find?

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

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

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