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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mu'allaqah mean?
(a) Secret.
(b) Hidden.
(c) Run.
(d) Hung.

3. Who is Arwa Salih?
(a) A young Palestinian protestor.
(b) Amal's old professor.
(c) A leader of student movement in the early 1970's.
(d) A mathematics professor at Cairo University.

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

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

6. How does 'Who's Who" describe Omar?
(a) As a musician and a writer.
(b) As a politician and lecturer.
(c) As a talk show host.
(d) As a gambling mogul.

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

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. 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 dies.
(c) He suffers from the psychological effects of war and is institutionalized.
(d) He is redeployed overseas.

10. Which mentally challenged character does Isabel visit in Chapter 5?
(a) Anna.
(b) Omar.
(c) Jasmine.
(d) Amal.

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

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

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

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

15. Where is Amal's house located?
(a) Tima.
(b) Suez.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Tawasi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Armand Demange?

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

3. Which character has nominal rule over Egypt in Chapter 6?

4. What group is Omar rumored to be associated with?

5. How does Anna disguise herself as she travels to the Mameluke tombs?

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