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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Emily?
(a) Anna's maid.
(b) Anna's cousin.
(c) Anna's friend in England.
(d) Anna's mother-in-law.

4. How long did Sharif's first marriage last?
(a) Six years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three years.
(d) A year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Which character helps Anna learn Arabic?
(a) Edward.
(b) Jasmine.
(c) Caroline.
(d) James.

14. What has the house in Amal's dream become?
(a) A museum.
(b) A morgue.
(c) A school.
(d) A hospital.

15. Why does Ahmad leave Palestine and return to Egypt?
(a) His father is dying.
(b) His uncle offers him a job in his shop.
(c) His mother is dying.
(d) He loses his land when Israel is unified in 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which mentally challenged character does Isabel visit in Chapter 5?

2. Why does Anna visit the South Kensington Museum?

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

4. Which friend of Amal's is carrying her fifth child in Chapter 8?

5. Where is Amal al-Ghamrawi when she has her terrifying dream?

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