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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the visitor think she can help the employee in "Dinner in the Black Market"?
(a) She knows important people.
(b) Her business is hiring.
(c) She owns rental properties.
(d) She owns a bookstore.

2. What does Zahra receive in the divorce?
(a) One million dollars.
(b) Her clothes and a room.
(c) The children.
(d) Her house.

3. Who takes Zahra to a fortune teller?
(a) Sofia.
(b) Faqih.
(c) Roukia.
(d) Her husband.

4. What is the acquaintance's reaction to the state official's offer in "The Discontented"?
(a) He cries.
(b) He turns it down.
(c) He accepts.
(d) He laughs.

5. What job does the person the state official meets hold?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the oldest girl want to build by the stream?

2. Where does Roukia get locked in?

3. How does the acquaintance in "The Discontented" feel when he sees the state official's home?

4. What was the relationship between the two sisters in "Silence" like?

5. Why does the state official's acquaintance believe his life is the way it is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Roukia is locked in the cellar?

2. Describe the life of the woman in "Out of Work" while she was working.

3. What do the husbands discover about visitor at the end of the story?

4. How does visitor attempt to help employee in "Dinner in the Black Market:"?

5. Why is Zahra's husband embarrassed by her in Chapter 5?

6. What conversation do the main character in "Divorce" and his brother discuss in the hospital?

7. What do the men in "The Discontented" blame the childhood friend's station in life on?

8. What is the nightly ritual Roukia preforms? How does it help the family?

9. What message does Aziz receive from his mother at the end of the story?

10. What causes the falling out between Zahra and her sister in Chapter 5?

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