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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sharif give Anna the night they sit in the garden outside St. Catherine's Monastery?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A ring.
(c) A blue journal.
(d) A kiss on her hand.

3. 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.

4. Which character proves to be a helpful friend to Anna in Alexandria?
(a) Emily.
(b) Amal.
(c) Jasmine.
(d) James.

5. What item of Anna's does Amal find?
(a) Her house.
(b) Her journal.
(c) Her basket.
(d) Her scarf.

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

7. How does Anna dress after she crosses the Suez Canal?
(a) As a French man.
(b) As an English man.
(c) As an Egyptian woman.
(d) As an Egyptian man.

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

9. Where does Isabel plan to go for the millennium celebration?
(a) Egypt.
(b) New York.
(c) Israel.
(d) Palestine.

10. Who does Isabel long to be romantically involved with?
(a) Edward.
(b) Ahab.
(c) Sharif.
(d) Omar.

11. Whom does Anna miss?
(a) Her father-in-law.
(b) Amal.
(c) Edward.
(d) Her parents.

12. What do Amal and Isabel have in common?
(a) Both have a Jewish heritage.
(b) Both are orphans and have lost family.
(c) Both want to live in London.
(d) Both are pregnant.

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

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

15. How long is Husni in jail?
(a) Three months.
(b) Three nights.
(c) One night.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fears does Emily have about living in Alexandria?

2. Which Egyptian god did King Akhen Atun and Queen Nefertiti want to worship?

3. Who is Sharif?e

4. Where was Amal born?

5. What do Amal and Isabel discover carved into the baptismal font at the Mu'allaqah?

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